The Ides of March Reviews

Movie Reviews

• the script is brittle, paradoxical and bleakly witty

  by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]

• some elements of the film are too melodramatic, but there's not a bad performance in it

  by Bill Goodykoontz [Arizona Republic ]

• it's about backstabbing, media manipulation, and what campaign managers do when they're not hatching plans in the war room

  Review rate : A- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• it is a smart and high-minded one, wonderfully cast, with understated direction

  by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]

• is one of the most honest mainstream movies about American politics ever to be committed to the screen

  by James Berardinelli [ReelViews ]

• ince this character's choices are crucial to a series of events that culminate in the film's climax

  by Christy Lemire [Associated Press ]

• ides is unmistakably a tale of romantic coming-of-age

  by Karina Longworth [Village Voice ]

• frequently reminded me of that earlier classic in its portrait of the corrosive nature of power

  by Alonso Duralde [The Wrap ]

• create an effect of near-objectivity that's more bracing than any overt moralizing could have been

  by Glenn Kenny [MSN Movies ]

• captures some great shots in silhouette and chooses to shoot plenty of shots through glass

  Review rate : B by Brad Brevet [Rope of Silicon ]

• 'ides' falls short, but fault is not in stars

  by Ty Burr [Boston Globe ]

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