Our Brand Is Crisis is the kind of movie that offers a look at a great antiheroine, but doesn't trust that she doesn't need to be tamed.
– Alison Willmore,
BuzzFeed News,
9 Nov 2015
fresh:
Our Brand is Crisis hits a lot of clunky notes and the end is unforgivably cornball, but it's still one of the liveliest political black comedies I've seen in a while.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
30 Oct 2015
fresh:
The movie is funny enough to get its share of laughs but, in its angry heart, it's a tragedy - and the saddest part is that too much of this story is true.
– James Berardinelli,
ReelViews,
30 Oct 2015
rotten:
It's the first time I've watched a David Gordon Green movie and found myself wishing I was in the capable hands of a set-'em-up-knock-'em-down director like Jay Roach.
– Alex Pappademas,
Grantland,
30 Oct 2015
rotten:
Much of what the film considers fodder for satire is too familiar to feel revelatory or shocking, while characters that start out believable behave in unrecognizably ludicrous ways simply because the script forces them to.