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44 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 85TheWrapAlonso DuraldeTheWrapAlonso DuraldeThe acting is universally excellent, particularly Fey, who’s shrewdly fulfilling our expectations while playing off them.
- 75Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreTina 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.”
- 67Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattWhat 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.
- 60The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyThe 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.
- 60Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzArizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFicarra and Requa never quite strike a successful balance between comedy and drama, making the whole thing feel a bit off.
- 58The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerA 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.
- 50Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonIt’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.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyAs 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.
- 30VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangDespite the script’s direct acknowledgment that it’s telling a “white-American-lady story,” the movie never quite shakes off a glib, incurious outsider’s perspective that can tilt into outright cluelessness, particularly where some of its more egregious casting choices are concerned.
- 10Village VoiceMelissa AndersonVillage VoiceMelissa AndersonThe mild Islamophobia and highly questionable casting choices in the film call to mind other texting abbreviations, namely AYFKMWTS and GTFOOH. In the end, though, it's an armed-forces acronym dating back to World War II that best describes this dismal project: FUBAR.