Liberals Hate Families

It’s true. The Ides of March will not tell you anything new. There’s nothing transcendent here. If you’ve watched 10 minutes of news in however long you’ve been alive, you can deduce that politics requires you to be dirty, cutthroat, dehumanizing, and duplicitous. But that doesn’t mar an otherwise good film. As a movie, it’s watchable and occasionally riveting. The plot has implications for how political campaigns operate, sure, but the story itself is worth following separate from that notion. The performances are good and intense. The writing has that crisp, fast quality, as if Aaron Sorkin wrote it. It’s the best confirmation bias you’ll have all year.