Which is better moneyball and ides of march

Voters know that playing the iconic Monroe takes courage and the discipline to avoid falling into the stereotype. Edgar Hoover from the days when he created the FBI to his time as the most powerful unelected government official in the country, who could intimidate even presidents of the United States — and often did.

No one would have thought about doing an unvarnished biopic of Hoover during his lifetime, but this one delves into speculation that he may have been a closeted gay man with a longtime relationship with his aide, Clyde Tolson.

The buzz: An Oscar contender — sight unseen. Clint Eastwood an Oscar fave directed. The question: Almost 40 years after his death, does anyone still care about Hoover? The story: In the near future, people stop aging at 25 to keep the population in check. Jason Timberlake plays a man who inherits an enormous chunk of time, then goes on the run to stay alive. What matters here is the WAY the story is told. And the acting has to be top-notch, which it is…on all fronts, starting with Brad Pitt, who is at the top of his game here, so to speak.

Pitt plays Billy Beane, a real-life general manager of the Oakland Athletics still is. He tries to get more money. No go. He tries to trade so-so players for some better players. Finally, he meets a young upstart with panache for economics and numbers who has an idea about a new system for rating players. Basically, the system is analytical and sabermeric baseball analysis through statistics.

As an actor, Brad Pitt has aged like a fine wine. The trading scenes, done mostly over the phone, are little comedies of brusqueness, with the players flaunted and abandoned like cards in a poker game. Follow Owen on Twitter: OwenGleiberman. Save FB Tweet More. By Brian D. Johnson October 6, Ryan Gosling left as the press secretary; George Clooney as the candidate.

George Clooney, who directed The Ides of March , likes to call it a political thriller. Which may be putting too fine a point on it. Insofar as politics is a game, as opposed to a mission, it can be seen as a sports movie, a less sentimental Moneyball , with the backroom boys trying to win the White House rather than the World Series.