Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
Directed by Glenn Ficarra
In 2002, cable news producer Kim Barker decides to shake up her routine by taking a daring new assignment in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dislodged from her comfortable American lifestyle, Barker finds herself in the middle of an out-of-control war zone. Luckily, she meets Tanya Vanderpoel, a fellow journalist who takes the shell-shocked reporter under her wing. Amid the militants, warlords and nighttime partying, Barker discovers the key to becoming a successful correspondent.
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We don’t want this to be “Under the Tuscan Sun” but with war instead of sun-ripened Italian tomatoes, and it gets uncomfortably close at times.
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Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (“Crazy Stupid Love”) blend fact with fiction and combine genres in this fish-out-of-water tale, female-discovery journey, romantic comedy and war-zone romp adapted by Fey “30 Rock” colleague Robert Carlock from Barker’s “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (“Bad Santa,” “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”) keep things moving at a heady pace.
Working from a screenplay by Robert Carlock (“30 Rock”), co-directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (“Crazy, Stupid, Love”) deliver a film that couldn’t be less interested in the complexities of the situation it’s allegedly depicting.
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Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (the team who made the con-game thriller "Focus" and the romantic comedy "Crazy, Stupid, Love.") capture the constant grit and random horrors of a war zone.
In adapting Kim Barker’s memoir, “The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa (“Crazy, Stupid, Love”), get tripped up with too many tonal shifts.