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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Dec 2007

When dealing with larger-than-life personalities, world conflicts, and a future of unspeakable misery, 90 minutes and some sugared patter just…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 20 Dec 2007

Sounds like a spy movie but it's handled as a comedy, and while the whole thing is droll (there's more than a few funny exchanges in the film),…

Review of Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 20 Dec 2007

The weight of current events in Iraq and Afghanistan push at the back of your mind as you watch the film…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 20 Dec 2007

Only Hoffman manages to make a silk purse out of this sow's ear…

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By Danny Minton (313) for Beaumont Journal (131) on 20 Dec 2007

While the film is of a serious nature, it plays as a comedy and turns out to be well-crafted entertainment…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 20 Dec 2007

Eighty percent of Charlie Wilson's War is a dizzyingly satiric and outrageous -- and true -- story…

Review of Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

By Matt Pais (1,519) for Metromix.com (1,085) on 20 Dec 2007

Like grafting the conflict-free pizzazz of Ocean's Thirteen onto Lions for Lambs…

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By Eric Melin (822) for Scene-Stealers.com (667) on 20 Dec 2007

[It's]a satire of the second Cold War and clueless American politics, while also celebrating the comparatively loose morals and naiveté of…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 20 Dec 2007

A mostly amusing film that features smart performances and even-smarter dialogue…

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By Jay Antani (281) for Filmcritic.com (3,164) on 20 Dec 2007

Entertaining, and that's about the extent of it…

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By Nell Minow (2,357) for Beliefnet (937) on 20 Dec 2007

Sorkin's fast, smart talk perfectly captures the smart, self-aware characters who like to pretend they can hide how much they care…

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By James Rocchi (1,075) for Cinematical (752) on 20 Dec 2007

Nichols's cut, gutted version (of Aaron Sorkin's script) offers a few cheery, breezy moments of rat-a-tat comedy, but Charlie Wilson's War…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 20 Dec 2007

A forgettable and too-glossy piffle posing ridiculously as Oscar bait, Charlie Wilson's War tells a true story that warrants more respect than…

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By Sean Burns (1,156) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 20 Dec 2007

So sad Nichols has directed it like a sequel to Ishtar, softening the script's poli-sci body blows with broad sight gags and a puzzlingly cartoonish…

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By Josh Bell (1,421) for Las Vegas Weekly (1,340) on 20 Dec 2007

It actually cares about entertaining its audience, about giving them something to laugh at and have fun with before hitting them over the head…

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By Stephen Hunter (927) for Washington Post (9,851) on 20 Dec 2007

This movie probably gets the Washington process better than any since Otto Preminger's underrated Advise & Consent in 1962…

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By Jan Stuart (404) for Newsday (2,345) on 20 Dec 2007

Sorkin is a deft explicator of Washington geopolitics for dummies, but he patronizes us with blunt lessons on the mujahideen and Afghanistan…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 20 Dec 2007

Charlie Wilson's War, a crisp, biting satire that confidently mixes sex and politics, glides along so smartly and smoothly, it makes you wonder…

Review of Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 20 Dec 2007

A funny, sprightly tribute to the American can-do spirit, with a bleak ending that suggests that our plucky protagonist may have just dug his…

Review of Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

By Ella Taylor (978) for L.A. Weekly (3,142) on 20 Dec 2007

Watching Charlie Wilson’s War is like sitting through a very long episode of The West Wing…

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