‘Whiskey Tango Foxtrot’ — the crazy life of a foreign correspondent
[...] it also shows how that life could be attractive, even addictive.
[...] it doesn’t just tell you this, but makes you feel it, so that you end up envying people in one of the worst places on earth.
Based on “The Taliban Shuffle,” a memoir by Kim Barker, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” stars Tina Fey as Barker, who was the Chicago Tribune’s South Asia bureau chief from 2004 to 2009.
[...] she picks up a video camera, jumps out of the truck and starts shooting the battle from inside the thick of it.
[...] Tina Fey persuades us to believe this woman would actually do that.
[...] it’s the moment that we realize that this is the story of an extraordinary person, someone who might seem ordinary in most ways, but has drives and impulses that can only be answered by this kind of mad environment.
[...] it signals that “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is not a comedy as we usually understand it.
Martin Freeman plays a roguish Scottish photographer, and at first the role seems odd casting for an actor of Freeman’s sensitivity.
Directors Glenn Ficarra and John Requa have complete command of the movie’s tone, and the screenplay never forces Fey into doing anything fake.
[...] one of the best things about “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is that it has no particular climax at all.