Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Embodying the true story of Kim Baker, a young smart and courageous journalist, who goes in a mission during war in Afghanistan, where she experiences many danger and was about to lose her life many times, but she faces all that challenges.
8 September 1962, Dessau, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony-Anhalt, Federal Republic of Germany]
10 June 1990, Houston, Texas, USA
29 March 1981, Zuni, New Mexico, USA
17 January 1977, El Paso, Texas, USA
21 June 1978, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
15 September 1971, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
November 15, 2016
WTF moves with fleet, mostly smart precision, and when it's repetitive... it's meant to emphasize the out-of-body "Kabubble" isolation of Kim's Afghanistan years.
November 15, 2016
Shooting for Catch-22 they end up instead with something closer to In the Army Now.
December 31, 2016
It gives a clear-eyed view of the human costs of war: the physical sacrifices of the military men and women fighting it, the emotional costs to the journalists who cover it and the psychic toll on the civilians in the middle.
March 04, 2016
Tina Fey is the biggest asset but even she's not sufficient to make it worth more than a marginal recommendation and a suggestion to wait until it shows up on home video.
February 16, 2017
Taking its source material from a genuinely fascinating memoir, the screenplay squanders its potential by delivering a middling mash-up of comedy, thriller and war drama.
March 04, 2016
Tina Fey grounds the movie in something real, something urgent and human, and she nearly single-handedly saves the movie from itself. The movie itself isn't particularly serious, but she sure as hell is.
April 29, 2016
The film offers a fresh look at the adrenaline-laced lifestyle of war correspondents and a timely criticism of TV news. And it delivers some laughs, too.
December 17, 2016
A brilliant supporting cast lifts an otherwise humdrum war comedy.
March 04, 2016
Writer and actress tilt between insecurity and bravado, employing dry, observational humour tinged with occasional sentimental flashes only outwardly out of character.
March 04, 2016
Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa move things along fast enough to keep [the problem aspects] from sinking in too deeply, and star Tina Fey holds the spotlight with aplomb.
July 22, 2016
It's a morally messy premise. Afghanistan is not Colin Firth. War is not Love Actually. And that is the problem with Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, which is overall a charming comedy about a terrible war.
