Rotten
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
Our Brand Is Crisis
May the best campaign win.
2015 · 1h 47m · R
Comedy, Drama
Directed by
Peter Straughan
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Our Brand Is Crisis
Overview
Based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", this feature focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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37%
Tomatometer
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
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
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
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.
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap
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