Beware The Ides of March

Beware The Ides of March (Columbia Pictures). This slick political thriller, the fourth directorial effort of the velvet-voiced heartthrob and aspiring auteur George Clooney, adds up to less than it appears to be at first glance, or even the first several glances. For a good 45 minutes, Clooney strings the audience along, making us half-believe that we?re watching a taut fable in the great '70s tradition of political paranoia: The Parallax View, All the President?s Men. In fact, The Ides of March doesn?t do a bad job of mocking up the tone and texture of such a movie, with its grubby, ill-lit interiors and tensely furtive exchanges. But despite across-the-board bravura performances (especially by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Paul Giamatti as dueling campaign managers), The Ides of March somehow remains static and lifeless, like a civics-class diorama.

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