It takes a strong voice to comment on massive issues like these. Ultimately, An Acceptable Loss never got these. It’s a subpar thriller with a couple of decent performances within, and not much more.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 19, 2022

Shot in varying shades of grey throughout and with little kinetic energy, even as it moves into what it presumably believes to be pacy thriller territory.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2020

This speculative political thriller stumbles through most of its first hour.

| Feb 19, 2020

It's all pretty muddled and murky while not particularly interesting or well-directed.

| Sep 17, 2019

As a fan of Jamie Lee Curtis, An Acceptable Loss is easy to recommend. But temper your expectations as the film has just as many praises as it does issues.

| Jul 28, 2019

Chappelle either misses wide or doesn't shoot at all.

| Feb 9, 2019

Tika Sumpter demonstrates the screen presence of a true star, and Jamie Lee Curtis creates a monster so terrifying she'd have Michael Myers turning tail and running away.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 26, 2019

An Acceptable Loss sees mass-scale horror and suffering only as a cheap plot device for a thin, hollow story.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 25, 2019

Though Sumpter lends her role the requisite controlled, inner strength and Jamie Lee Curtis utilizes her trademark fierce resolve to good effect as an intimidating commander in chief, the politics prove as tenuous as the nonexistent thrill factor.

| Jan 24, 2019

Takes place in an archaic universe in which the revelation of government wrongdoing is somehow important, and much of the drama comes from whether or not this supposed bombshell will be made public.

| Jan 24, 2019

The coda, more brightly, isn't bad; but Curtis is the only reason to see this film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 24, 2019

The best thing about An Acceptable Loss ... is Jamie Lee Curtis ... [it's] a thriller that doesn't quite thrill.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jan 23, 2019

"An Acceptable Loss" is truly a loss.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 23, 2019

If you see An Acceptable Loss in a movie theater, you might regret the money you spent on a ticket. Watch it on 온라인카지노추천 or a mobile device and you may stay totally absorbed.

| Jan 22, 2019

What makes "An Acceptable Loss" a slightly better than even proposition are not just the performances of Sumpter and Curtis, but the dynamic that's established between them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 22, 2019

For all of the film's high-minded aspirations it's just too silly and stupid to be able to live up to any of them.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 22, 2019

But there's room for a bigger discussion there, between two powerful women engaged in what is largely seen as a man's field, while Curtis and Sumpter are both extremely passionate in their few exchanges.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 21, 2019

If you want somebody to save the neighborhood, or to blow up the planet, Jamie Lee Curtis is the one. She has the smile, the moves, the haircut, and the chops. Now all she needs is the directors to match.

| Jan 18, 2019

[An Acceptable Loss] feels gripping only if you compare it to a random couple of hours of C-SPAN.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 18, 2019

This political thriller is ambitious and timely, but it's also disappointingly awkward, with stilted performances in the first half and a second half that gets increasingly routine and ridiculous.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2019