This is not a George Clooney movie. This is also very much a George Clooney movie. Let me explain: Welcome to Collinwood is a heist comedy with an ensemble cast: Sam Rockwell, Luiz Guzman, Isaiah Washington, William H. Macy, Patricia Clarkson, and George Clooney, who plays Jerzy, a wheelchair-bound safe-cracker. It’s a funny movie in which the characters, all goofy career criminals, seek to pull off a big score in the Cleveland suburb of Collinwood. Clooney delivers some of the film’s funniest lines. But he does not have the most screen time, hence it’s not a George Clooney movie. Welcome to Collinwood is a remake of the 1958 Italian heist comedy, Big Deal on Madonna Street, which itself is a satire of the 1955 Italian heist drama Rififi. This sort of thing is well within Clooney’s wheelhouse. By 2002, the year Welcome to Collinwood came out, Clooney had been in Out of Sight, Ocean’s 11 (also a remake), Three Kings, and O Brother, Where Art Though? All of which are stylish movies by Brilliant Young Directors with a certain absurd comedic bent. This is how you could describe Welcome to Collinwood, which is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, who, a decade later, would direct Marvel movies, including Avengers: Endgame. So, yes, Welcome to Collinwood is, indeed, a George Clooney movie. — Michael Sebastian
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