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Our Brand Is Crisis

2015

David Gordon Green

Sandra Bullock, Billy Bob Thornton, Anthony Mackie, Joaquim de Almeida ...

5.5

1,546

Drama. Comedy A feature film based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", which focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.

	Media	Author	Review
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is offbeat and appealing on some levels but is neither as funny nor as trenchant as it might have been."
		Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Green wisely cedes control to his actors (...) But neither his direction, nor any of the formidable performances, can do much to alleviate the bumpy road of Peter Straughan's screenplay"
		Peter Debruge Variety	"As played by Sandra Bullock, Our Brand Is Crisis political spin doctor Jane Bodine is easily one of the best female roles of the last 10 years"
		Richard Roeper 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 (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"This fictional spin on a real election makes a timely fit for today’s campaign antics (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"As a satire of Americans meddling in international affairs, Our Brand Is Crisis is a political misfire (...) the movie unfortunately gets stuck between edgy drama and broad comedy (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"
		Benjamin Lee 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 (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"
		Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"This satire (...) suffers from deficits of wit, wisdom, focus, filmmaking expertise and appropriate tone. It’s a case study, if nothing else, of starting with a dubious idea and making it downright awful"
		Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Politics is a dirty business, but Our Brand Is Crisis doesn’t stick its hands into the muck sufficiently to be as entertaining or stinging as it could be"

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