Rating: **1/2
Nonna's Rating: $$
Rotten Tomatoes: 85%
Audience: 75%
Ides of March is well made, but you've seen it too many times before. Watch The Candidate again with Robert Redford to see it done extremely well the first time. In spite of that, individual actors' performances are excellent. George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, and the always amazing Paul Giamatti do a fine job. I'm afraid though, that films about political shenanigans can't keep up with the real life circus in Washington and the Governor's mansion in Illinois.
I must note, however, one magnificent scene late in the movie which takes place at a Roman Catholic funeral service. The church used is actually Episcopal -- Christ Church Cranbrook in Bloomfield Hills, MI. And the fine actor playing the R.C. priest (although he has no lines and just sits there looking R.C.) is my friend Gary Hall, former Dean and President of Seabury Seminary.
Nonna's Rating
$$$$ = Worth paying the Friday evening
$$$ = Worth paying the Matinee price
$$ = Worth a rental
$= Wait for cable
# = Skip It
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