Ides of March

What’s funny about this movie, it feels like it was written 50 years ago. The scandal, the catalyst for the movie’s low-impact intrigue, seems relatively tame compared to today’s real-world Jack Abramoffs and war profiteers. Though she’s a competent performer, Evan Rachel Wood’s intern-in-trouble character feels like she fell out of a 1950’s propaganda film about teens in trouble. Everyone in the cast is solid, and it’s well-directed by Clooney, but the movie doesn’t say a lot about today’s political world that we didn’t already know.