Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot follows television journalist Kim Barker (Tina Fey) as she decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom in 2002.
2 July 1990, Dalby, Queensland, Australia
4 September 1978, Kirovakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Vanadzor, Armenia]
4 August 1955, Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA
19 September 1966, Saint James, New York, USA
21 June 1951, Richmond, Virginia, USA
December 17, 2016
A brilliant supporting cast lifts an otherwise humdrum war comedy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
November 15, 2016
Shooting for Catch-22 they end up instead with something closer to In the Army Now.
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.
