A crackling satire about how insanely far political palm-greasing could go just 20 years ago. But its chilling closing quote succinctly sums up just how ideology, infantry and a political disinterest would come back to haunt our nation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 9, 2023

It’s a smart and sophisticated piece of political comedy for grown-ups with sharp performances and a delightful anti-hero who embraces his imperfections and scandalous behavior with a wink and smile.

| Apr 8, 2023

An all-time great director, Hollywood’s hottest screenwriter, and a pair of the world’s biggest movie stars teamed up to make a movie about diplomacy, politics, statecraft, and covert war, one that's funny throughout (15th anniversary, 19Fortyfive.com

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 27, 2022

In any event, as history, Charlie Wilson's War is a travesty.

| Mar 5, 2021

Politics - dirty or otherwise - has never been so much fun.

| Original Score: 10/10 | Nov 24, 2020

The (shameful) Yankee foreign policy of the 1980s... told humorously (naturally!). [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2020

It is Hoffman, however, who steals the show time and time again.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

Hanks is at his best in those scenes when he impersonates a good old boy, smart as a fox, who deliberately plays the rube to the foreign potentates.

| May 26, 2020

A movie with bite but no teeth.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2019

A curiously bright work for a supposed black comedy, featuring the wired wordplay (and sly digs at Washington wildlife) of writer Aaron Sorkin, creator of 온라인카지노추천's The West Wing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 30, 2018

Wilson? Enormously pleasurable company, since you ask. True, he's a lech, but such a gallant lech, plus he also gets irony.

| Feb 2, 2018

It's a timely reminder: Ending a war is all very nice, but watch out for what comes next.

| Aug 22, 2017

Set the irony meter at eleven and enjoy.

| Apr 28, 2011

The satire darkens not into sobering relevance but into wishy-washy 'relevance'

| Aug 27, 2009

The international intrigue becomes strained satire -- what's needed is the comic touch of a Billy Wilder.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 23, 2009

Hanks may at first seem like an unlikely choice to play a seasoned Texas playboy bachelor, but he's so ingratiating that he almost pulls it off.

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

Hanks' performance as Wilson is tone-perfect, capturing both the public-servant seriousness and playboy rakishness of his character. And he does it without breaking a sweat.

| Oct 18, 2008

Charlie Wilson's War is both funny and entertaining. In fact, as far as making political points, you kind of have to look for them.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

At a short 93 minutes, it feels as though Charlie Wilson's War was hacked up in the editing room, leaving the bare bones of the structure but little of the really juicy meat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

All of the actors clearly relish the film's fast and busy pace, smart dialog and vivid characterisations.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008