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By October 5, 2011No Comments

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My review of The Ides of March, star­ring Gosling and Clooney and dir­ec­ted by Clooney, for MSN Movies. Yes, I know that’s not a sentence. 

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  • David Ehrenstein says:
    October 6, 2011 at 9:11 am

    Caught the all-media last night. If this is “old school” then I’m play­ing hookey.
    Exceptionally dis­ap­point­ing. For all his obvi­ous smarts and pro­fes­sion­al skill (top-notch act­ing, All Tech Credits Pro) at the end of the day it’s a flip cyn­ic­al “inside” (but not all that “inside”)story about a lying Democrat who fucks the wrong intern. George may think he’s Francesco Rosi but at heart he’s Delbert Mann.
    Evan Rachel Wood as the intern in ques­tion is fine as always. George is George as always. Ryan Gosling had bet­ter find a secodn facial expres­sion, fast.
    Stolen by Marisa Tomei as Judy Miller.

  • robhumanick says:
    October 6, 2011 at 10:55 am

    I is excited. Sentences?

  • Michael Adams says:
    October 6, 2011 at 12:15 pm

    “George may think he’s Francesco Rosi but at heart he’s Delbert Mann.” The most damning remark ever uttered in these pages. I sus­pect it’s true.

  • lipranzer says:
    October 6, 2011 at 2:23 pm

    I haven’t seen the film yet, but I think Clooney (whom I like as a dir­ect­or as well as act­or; I even like his much-maligned LEATHERHEADS) thinks he’s Alan J. Pakula, not Rosi.

  • Stephen Bowie says:
    October 7, 2011 at 6:06 am

    Delbert Mann is a very under­rated director.

  • Dennis J. O'Connor says:
    October 7, 2011 at 8:37 am

    Having not seen the film (and I will, as a polit­ic­al junkie)I only wish to com­ment on the MSN review. It was cleanly writ­ten without any of the pre­ten­tious lit­er­ary devices usu­ally reserved for wine tast­ing and art cri­ti­cism. George Orwell would have been proud to pro­duce such a work. A rare, read­able piece. Thank you.

  • lipranzer says:
    October 7, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    Having seen the movie, like David, I was a little dis­ap­poin­ted. I don’t think it’s a “flip” movie, but I do think it was cap­able of, and should have gone, much deep­er. I also find it hard to believe a sup­posedly savvy cam­paign work­er like Gosling’s char­ac­ter is sup­posed to be is so cred­u­lous about what Giamatti’s char­ac­ter does (Giamatti, Hoffman and Tomei I thought were the best parts of the movie).

  • Asher says:
    October 10, 2011 at 12:38 am

    Ehrenstein’s right. This was an excep­tion­ally dim movie, marred by a one-note (okay, three notes, but two of them are out of his range) per­form­ance from Gosling.