Whiskey Tango Foxtrot's reviews
Media reviews
The Wrap
The acting is universally excellent, particularly Fey, who's shrewdly fulfilling our expectations while playing off them.
Time
All are wonderful, and Fey is terrific too: Her timing has always been superb, but lately, she?s settled into a kind of autopilot precision.
The Guardian
Ficara and Requa have an irreverent streak, one that even might strike some as a little flippant against the gravity of the war.
Chicago Sun-Times
Fey is such a likable and funny screen presence, but she?s no lightweight when it comes to playing subtle, honest drama.
New York Post
There aren?t enough movies in which Tina Fey fires an AK-47 while grinning maniacally. 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' turns out to make excellent use of her established skills while revealing new ones: It?s '30 Rock Me to the Casbah'.
Hitfix
'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' is a film of modest pleasures, but what I liked about it, I liked a lot. I hope more filmmakers figure out how to write to Fey's strengths, because she's really engaging here.
Rolling Stone
There's a lot going on here. Maybe too much. The filmmakers can't draw coherence out of chaos. But Fey does.
Entertainment Weekly
What work better in the movie are mostly smaller moments: the jokes that land, the rapport between the reporters, and all the weirdly ordinary ways people manage to find a new normal, even in the most WTF circumstances.
The Washington Post
True to its title, as well as its flawed but sympathetic protagonist, 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' is more confused than cynical or opportunistic. Its bewilderment is contagious, and ultimately endearing.
Roger Ebert
Is 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' a horrible movie about a white outsider plopped in the middle of Afghanistan? No, that would be last year?s 'Rock the Kasbah'. But neither does 'Whiskey Tango Foxtrot' fulfill its assigned duty to provide evidence of Fey?s versatility.
The Playlist
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.
Vulture
It?s not so much bad as dismayingly bland. It?s WTF for all the wrong reasons.
The Hollywood Reporter
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, (...) but rarely inducing one to take what they're watching very seriously.
Variety
This haphazard fish-out-of-water dramedy tries to show how the rush of war can become its own weird escape from reality, but never really hits the surreal, satirical groove it?s aiming for.