It's hard to make a truly thrilling political drama, but Clooney comes close. Gosling's better as a less normal man.

Well paced coming-of-age drama set in the world of American politics. Story is solid, characters and acting even more so. Transformation that Gosling's character goes through seems a bit fat fetched, but hey, I was rooting for him the same way I was rooting for that kid in Let The Right One In. Very solid middle-weight film, and way more entertaining than I expected it to be.

ultimately, i enjoyed the movie, it was pretty good suspense, but its not a movie that you'd ever want to watch again after the initial viewing

Great, great movie which draws you in completely. Dirty politics, back stabbing and characters transforming before your eyes has never looked better with one powerhouse of a cast. Gosling and Hoffman as usual shine brightest. Clooney has forged a very smart film that has become a surprise favorite of mine in 2011.

Great acting with a stellar cast, but lacking a real intriguing story. Your typical political thriller.

I'm fine with political jargon, as long as it makes sense. Clooney's direction is solid, but his character is simply too liberal to be believable.

Clooney's finest film to date. Had my blood pressure skyrocketing the entire way.

I can respect Clooney and co trying to make an intelligent, unapologetically political film for an adult audience here, but there's major veracity issues. One, the implication that a presidential candidate in America could express a disbelief in god and continue to be a presidential candidate. Two, the notion that two rival campaign managers from the same political party having a conversation would be even remotely important enough to write a newspaper article about, let alone become a scandal.

An unsuspenseful thriller directed by mister charming himself. It does what it needs to do without overstaying its welcome. Ryan Gosling does by-the-book acting but not any worse than Clooney. Just go along for the ride and try to enjoy it while you can. There are certainly much worse low-brow thrillers out there.

Another surprisingly good tour from Gosling and Clooney being awesome as ever. The movie is fairly deliberate in its pacing but the buildup and the ending are fantastic and its awesome watching these two play off of each other.

An expertly crafted film which, while intelligent, is pared-down enough for the viewer to follow the constantly shifting moral choices of the protagonists - in a way I preferred this script to one of Sorkin's. The great cast is all on good form, with Gosling capturing selling out to devastating effect.

A borderline naive coming-of-age story. Clooney certainly means well (and Hoffmann and Giamatti certainly does well), but it never escapes being a rather stereotypical and overly dramatic inspection of the wraiths who keep politicians afloat. To inform the general public, 'The Ides of March' will do just fine, but it's never as clever or poignant as it thinks it is.

Ryan Gosling is the modern version of James Dean. Handsome, clever, sweet, misunderstood... with a rage inside. He doesn't mind beating people to death, nor have sex, nor just ... be awesome and cool. Also, this is a good film in many other ways.

24 Aralik 2011 & george clooney'nin bu isi artik ogrendiginin kaniti. Filmin temposu, ritmi aslinda kilit noktasi. Filmin ortalarini biraz gectikten sonra hizlanan tempo ve 'simdi ne olacak, ne yapicak?' sorulari hic dusmeden sona kadar kaliyor. Temponun iyi ayarlanmis olmasi, oyunculuklarin basarisi ve atmosferin duzgun kurulmus olmasi filmi 'iyi bir film' haline getiren unsurlar.

I'm more skeptical about this film than most. I'm not really sure there's that much that makes it unique or special - Gosling plays a political consultant whose client sleeps with an intern and acts like your typical scuzzy politician (he's basically Bill Clinton). This causes Gosling's character to lose his faith and naivete and pull some pretty douchey political dealings with his client's rival. This is so conventional a story in our current climate it bores to tears. Acting good, plot bad.

Accessible, perhaps overly so. I can't quite figure out what Clooney is playing at more, making a smart and slick film or trying to make the audience feel smart by always allowing them to be at least one step ahead. The impressive cast is fun to watch and the entertainment level is high up until the final act where the film loses some of its considerable steam.

In a word, hyper-cynical. It's about a Democrat primary campaign. They talk down the Republicans to each other and then proceed to wallow in the muck. Oh Clooney gets his leftist idealitic jabs in there, but then the movie proceeds to show them as corrupt as they were calling the Republicans. It's a pretty pessimistic view, and given that it's about the Democrats, what'd you expect. The one part they really get right is about religion at the very beginning--spoken by Gosling then Clooney.

A fairly smart drama with turns of a thriller, but with political campaigns as your setting, there's only so much you can do.

Fantastic performances all around, but, in the end, I wasn't done watching. Something was lacking when the credits rolled to make this rise above an adapt political drama, but what was there was completely enjoyable. Plenty of, "oh shit," moments mixed in with a very mature and succinct narrative.

Very well acting by Gosling and Hoffman. Nice script with some twists, fun to watch.

Something about this movie is rubbed me the wrong way. I love movies about politics (Shouts out to the all-time great All the President's Men), but I was never 100% behind this one. Gosling turns in a great performance. No one else is really given a chance to impress. I like endings like this, but other parts of the script didn't work. It's a good film, but maybe I'm a bit disappointed because it was my most-anticipated movie of the year for a while.

This is essentially an old kind of story about politics filtered through the unprecedented recent history of Obama's success as the "perfect" candidate. It's full of plenty of great actors but the script is far too standard to have them do anything great with it. It's like a Pakula thriller without the same directional flair or Gordon Willis' masterful cinematography. It's ultimately not that memorable; Clooney's done better with far less grandiosity and blatancy.

I expected a bit more from this film with a cast like this, but the film is certainly watchable. Too many people seem to have focused on the politics, while I didn't find it to be that heavy. It ends up being a nice depiction of how I'd imagine the inner workings of campaign management would work. I thought the acting would be stronger, but PSH shows he can shine in even a limited role. Not quite as strong as Clooney's other directorial efforts, but I don't regret seeing it.

Gosling and Clooney, two people who's charm could win over the virgin Mary in the same movie. Couldn't have been bad right? It wasn't.