Where is ides of march playing in dallas

This is Clooney's fourth directorial effort, and he continues to develop a more assured eye, one that has clearly been informed by the political thrillers of the '60s and '70s: the off-center framing; the three-planes deep action of a busy office; a nervously twisting torso at a phone booth. The film's only weakness is that as director, Clooney plays things a little too cool, not letting the action pop as sharply as he might.

He's assembled one of the best casts of the year, a collection of men and women who can handle drama at its most dizzying, why he doesn't unleash the fury or heighten the tension is a mystery. Arguably the most explosive scene in the film is one that takes place off-screen and that we hear about only after the fact. Nonetheless, "Ides of March" is a gripping game of cat-and-mouse, a bleak view of how the political sausage gets made and a cautionary tale about hubris all rolled into one.

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