Few old-school movie stars today are as earnestly and disarmingly Hollywood as George Clooney. In that regard, the breezy “The Boys in the Boat,” his latest directorial effort after the laborious and flat “The Tender Bar,” almost feels like an extension of Clooney’s star persona: accessible, handsomely made, a bit schmaltzy but never less than spirited or without something to say.
Harnessing all these qualities, “The Boys in the Boat” is the best kind of easy-to-consume and inoffensive underdog tale, tracing the rousing journey of one penniless young man in his quest to become something more than his financial predicaments have thus far allowed him.
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