On the Wednesday before Labor Day, the only major holiday that regularly produces lackluster box-office returns, Focus Features, Universal’s specialty division, has chosen to debut The American , starring George Clooney. The thriller is receiving widely disparate reviews. On the one hand is the Chicago Sun-Times ‘s Roger Ebert, who remarks that it is “so rare to see a film this carefully crafted, this patiently assembled like a weapon.” On the other hand, Kyle Smith remarks in the New York Post “It’s hard to imagine anyone but a critic sitting twice through The American , a pretentious Euro-snore that should occasion a fraud prosecution for any marketer who calls it a thriller — and which stars an actor who seems to wish his name were Jorg Cloo
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