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Rock the Kasbah

2015

Barry Levinson

Bill Murray, Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Zooey Deschanel ...

4.6

1,169

Comedy A washed-up music producer finds one last shot at redemption with a golden-voiced young girl in Afghanistan.

	Author	Review
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"This is one of the worst movies of the year. Any year. (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"A pandering, poorly assembled botch that thinks it's playing fair by Afghan popular culture but only manages to add insult to the countless other injuries inflicted upon that country. If it were any worse, they'd be screening it as evidence at The Hague."	NEG
United States	Michael O'Sullivan The Washington Post	"Sexist, racist, overlong, dull, visually ugly and, worst of all, unfunny, “Kasbah” squanders its cast."	NEG
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"Clichéd, enervating, insulting - it's tough to settle on a single pejorative for "Rock the Kasbah," though abysmal might do"	NEG
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"An acclaimed film director, a legendary comic actor, lots of fun rock and pop songs, and a noble story at its core can't save 'Rock the Kasbah' from being one hugely misguided dud"	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Rock the Kasbah goes fierce to quietly touching and back to funny again (...) Roll with Murray, an actor so damn good you'll follow him anywhere (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Rafer Guzmán Newsday	"An ongoing war is no setting for a musical comedy, especially one this glib and inane."	NEG
United Kingdom	Jordan Hoffman The Guardian	"For a moment, Rock the Kasbah threatens to be a biting, black satire in the Robert Altman mode about America’s continued presence in Afghanistan. But only for a moment (...) Rating: ★ (out of five)"	NEG
United States	Joe Morgenstern The Wall Street Journal	"No one doesn’t love Bill Murray, but his melancholy torpor can wear thin in the best of circumstances, and these circumstances are pretty close to the worst. The cast includes Bruce Willis, Kate Hudson, Danny McBride and Scott Caan. No one escapes unscathed."	NEG
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"Your enjoyment of all this will probably depend heavily on your willingness to let the words romp and Taliban coexist for approximately two hours"	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Rock the Kasbah morphs into a pretty implausible feel-good movie that's nearly as maudlin as it is unconvincing"	NEG
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Levinson seems to be aiming for an ironic tone that mixes political commentary with wry observations about the absurdity of stardom, but he shows little aptitude for the tricky mix he's seeking"	NEG

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