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Our Brand Is Crisis (15)

Comedy, Drama

A battle-hardened American political consultant is sent to help re-elect a controversial president in Bolivia, where she must compete with a long-term rival working for another candidate.


The critical consensus

Enjoyable but insufficiently caustic political satire lifted by its star Sandra Bullock.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, The List, 18/01/2016

Sparks fly, but the grim cynicism of modern politics adds subversive weight to the film’s screwball comedy stylings and has a lot to say about modern politics, in the US as well as abroad.

****(*)Damon Wise, Empire Online, 18/01/2016

Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton fail to convince as rival US spin-doctors on the presidential campaign trail in Bolivia.

**(*)(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 21/01/2016

Bullock gives a spirited comedic performance as Bodine, while Billy Bob Thornton is suitably sleazy as her rival and nemesis. In the end, though, in spite of its hard-hearted cynical veneer, David Gordon Green's comedy-drama turns into a strangely soft-centred and manipulative affair.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 22/01/2016

After the foul-mouthed viciousness of The Thick Of It, the enjoyable Our Brand Is Crisis feels a little on the tame side.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 22/01/2016

The plot is dull and a few ill-judged moments of comedy just seem weird.

**(*)(*)(*)Henry Fitzherbert, Sunday Express, 24/01/2016

Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton go head to head as strategists in a patchy satire about the 2002 Bolivian elections.

***(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 24/01/2016

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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