The Good German
Grade: C

Director Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight, Ocean’s Eleven) and George Clooney team up once again for this failed attempt to replicate the look, romance and intrigue of black-and-white classics like Casablanca. Clooney is about as charismatic as wallpaper paste as an American reporter assigned to Berlin in 1945. Tobey Maguire is miscast and hopelessly dorky as a scheming Army driver, and an expert German accent isn’t enough to help Cate Blanchett overcome the wooden script.