[Philip Seymour Hoffman's] rumpled, cranky spy is hilarious--George Smiley by way of Jack Black--but with an edge of quiet ferocity that makes every scene he's in play a little sharper.
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Charlie Wilson's War (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 178
Fresh: 147
Rotten:31
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus: Charlie Wilson's War manages to entertain and inform audiences, thanks to its witty script and talented cast of power players.
Runtime: 1 hr 42 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release: Dec 21, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $66,636,385
Synopsis: Charlie Wilson's War is the true story of how a playboy congressman, a renegade CIA agent and a beautiful Houston socialite joined forces to lead the largest and most successful covert operation in history. Their efforts contributed to... [More]
Starring: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams
Director: Mike Nichols
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Reviews for Charlie Wilson's War
Top Critic This film may be based on real events but it plays out like a sharp and often absurd political satire.
06/08/08
[A]nyone who's seen, say, Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo or even one of those late-night "Save the Children" TV spots has seen much more gut-punching stuff.
05/01/08
The dialogue zings and pops whether you are trying to keep up with Hanks and Hoffman as they exchange one-liners or trying to fully understand the foreign affairs...
03/04/08
Suficientemente interessante para figurar entre os diversos trabalhos que fizeram de 2007 um ano tão forte para o Cinema norte-americano.
03/01/08
Two vaguely amoral do-gooders do their part to fight Commies in a secret hot war during a cold one%u2026you know, the one that installed the Taliban in Afghanistan and turned it into a place armed to the teeth and crazy pissed at us. Then Sorkin and Nich
02/16/08
Smart, sophisticated and stylish, "Charlie Wilson's War" is a victory for thinking adults.
02/09/08
Una inteligente sátira política, que se queda corta como crítica a la intervención de EEUU en Medio Oriente pero funciona muy bien como comedia. Tom Hanks y Philip Seymour Hoffman están formidables.
01/31/08
It's not a war movie but plays against a backdrop of war; it's not a comedy but has plenty of humour; it's not a romance romantic relationships matter; it's not a political story but everything is political.
01/23/08
Bursting with star power, comes off as a smart comedy, economically written and briskly paced while making politics more fun than they have a right to be.
01/18/08
It's not a war movie but it plays against a backdrop of war; it's not a comedy but it has plenty of humour; it's not a romance but the romantic relationships matter; it's not a political story but everything is political
01/17/08
None of the participants can%u2014or will%u2014anticipate the al-Qaeda punchline, of course, but the film includes a coda to ensure you know where their chortling and short-sighted self-interests will lead.
01/17/08
The story of Charlie Wilson's War makes an engaging and amusing film. Aaron Sorkin's scriptis literate, intelligent, well-written, fast-paced and full of clever and cynical one-liners.
01/15/08
It all adds up to something very unsatisfying, and less than honest.
01/11/08
Philip Seymour Hoffman provides a wonderful comic foil as the straight-talking CIA operative who helps Wilson in his covert dealings with the Afghan rebels.
01/11/08
The surreal comedy is that every tense twist of this secret war is horribly true.
01/11/08
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