Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: March 4, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
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24
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16
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
EmpireJimi Famurewa Apr 4, 2016
Comedy for grown-ups that sometimes struggles with its ambitious brief, but always remembers that the best laughs contain the odd shard of shrapnel. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsStephen Whitty Mar 4, 2016
It's tasty at times, but feels like a very special episode of "30 Rock." Halfway in, you're still expecting Kenneth the Page to show up. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMar 3, 2016
Ficarra and Requa never quite strike a successful balance between comedy and drama, making the whole thing feel a bit off. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushBritt HayesMar 3, 2016
For all its failings (of which there are many), Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is still a rather enjoyable and mostly pleasant viewing experience, the kind of movie that’s easy to watch and digest when taken at its glossy face value. Read full review
60
The New YorkerRichard BrodyFeb 29, 2016
The filmmakers keep to the surface of the bluntly rowdy story while conveying apolitical layers of regret and exasperation, in wanly comic and affectingly melodramatic action alike. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerMar 2, 2016
A movie like this doesn’t require 30 Rock’s joke density or silly streak, but it’s surprising that Fey and Carlock’s satirical eyes aren’t a little more alert. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 3, 2016
As for Ms. Fey, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot doesn’t serve her fully, but this is her best work yet on the feature screen. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinMar 3, 2016
It’s not so much bad as dismayingly bland. It’s WTF for all the wrong reasons. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldMar 3, 2016
As written by the TV veteran Robert Carlock, Kim’s rise-and-fade arc is sympathetically rendered, with humor and the urgency of an underhand pitch. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonMar 3, 2016
There’s a sharp comedy to be made about America’s misadventures in Afghanistan. This isn’t it. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 3, 2016
While it's no disaster, it's oddly indistinct and uncertain. Read full review
50
The PlaylistRuss FischerMar 3, 2016
Fey's work is strong, yet it's difficult to squash the impression that this could be a more powerful movie, and an even more significant showcase for Tina Fey. Read full review
50
The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenMar 3, 2016
Strange movie. And despite the presence of Tina Fey playing its lead character, a cable-TV reporter named Kim Baker, it’s not a funny one. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonFeb 29, 2016
It’s to Ficarra and Requa’s credit that they try to juggle romance and political commentary, daring to make a studio movie that doesn’t fall into cookie-cutter genre rules. But the overriding problem is that Whiskey doesn’t go far enough in its risk-taking, settling for a story that gets more predictable as it rolls along. Read full review
42
The Film StageMichael SnydelMar 3, 2016
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is a galling, casually offensive, and deeply unsatisfying film. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyFeb 29, 2016
As in their previous films (I Love You Phillip Morris; Crazy, Stupid, Love; Focus), directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa enjoy just scattershot success in hitting their seriocomic targets, scoring from time to time with their more coarse and outlandish gambits but rarely inducing one to take what they're watching very seriously. Read full review
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