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    Post dates are when I watched, parenthetical dates are the year of US release (aka Oscar eligibility).

8/13/2016

Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)

Jane Bodine, a political strategist, is pulled out of self-imposed retirement to work on the campaign of a Bolivian presidential candidate who’s 30 points behind the leader. She’s got all kinds of personal eccentricities, is socially inept, and has a serious rivalry with the opposing strategist.

All of that sounds like it’d make for an interesting story, but it just doesn’t. I didn’t care about Jane, the “colorful” members of the political team, or the candidate. On the screen, everything was just flat.

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