Synopsis
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.
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Cast
- Tina FeyKim Barker
- Margot RobbieTanya Vanderpoel
- Billy Bob ThorntonGeneral Hollanek
- Martin FreemanIain MacKelpie
- Josh CharlesChris
- Alfred MolinaAli Massoud Sadiq
- Christopher AbbottFahim Ahmadzai
- Nicholas BraunTall Brian
- Sheila VandShakira
- Evan JonigkeitCoughlin
Recommandations
- 85
TheWrap
The acting is universally excellent, particularly Fey, who’s shrewdly fulfilling our expectations while playing off them. - 75
Movie Nation
Tina Fey gives her finest, funniest big screen performance by essentially doing in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot what she did so well on TV’s “30 Rock.” - 67
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. - 60
The New Yorker
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. - 60
Arizona Republic
Ficarra and Requa never quite strike a successful balance between comedy and drama, making the whole thing feel a bit off. - 58
The A.V. Club
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. - 50
Screen Daily
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. - 40
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, scoring from time to time with their more coarse and outlandish gambits but rarely inducing one to take what they're watching very seriously.
