Our Brand Is Crisis's reviews
Media reviews
Indiewire
Green assembles the lively vision of ruthless political machinations with a sturdy hand and irony to spare, but mostly takes cues from his vibrant lead and the material itself.
Fotogramas
Sandra Bullock, Academy Award winner for Best Actress, is replete in the role of unscrupulous political consultant. A role originally written for George Clooney, it demonstrates once again, that she has a natural talent for comedy.
Vulture
David Gordon Green keeps the perspectives shifting, getting lots of good angles on this three-ring circus. His slickness fits the milieu. And while the role of Calamity Jane smacks of Sandra Bullock?s branding.
Variety
With her aggressively styled hair, Hollywood shades and entitled attitude, she?s either intimidatingly fabulous or fabulously intimidating, but either way, others seem to shrink in her presence. If Bolivia were a dictatorship, she could be its Eva Peron.
Rolling Stone
This fictional spin on a real election makes a timely fit for today's campaign antics.
The Guardian
The film is in need of an edge that Peter Straughan's screenplay fails to deliver.... Yet Sandra Bullock seems blissfully unaware of the film's faults and delivers a performance that expertly plays on her strengths.
El Mundo
"There is intelligence in the script and there are energy in the Sandra Bullock's acting and his opponent, Billy Bob Thornton too (...) However, the story of the character and ethics are broken and the film, the comedy, loses much of its attractive.
New York Times
The problem is that they and Ms. Bullock do such a good job selling this Jane that they do exactly what they?re supposed to do: They make you curious about her.
USA Today
Instead of leaning into the biting commentary and relevant issues of that story, however, the new movie?s fictionalized journey gets too starstruck with its own familiar faces.
The Hollywood Reporter
[It] is offbeat and appealing on some levels but is neither as funny nor as trenchant as it might have been.
Chicago Sun-Times
A mixed-bag satire with ambitions that veer wildly from sharp political insight to slapstick farce to inspirational semi-autobiography. It never finds solid ground in any of those genres.
The Wrap
Even a better political satire would have a hard time keeping up with the bizarrely eccentric vaudeville currently taking place on cable news, but ?Our Brand Is Crisis? can?t even come close.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote