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

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

[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.

| Sep 22, 2008

[A]nyone who's seen, say, Michael Winterbottom's Welcome to Sarajevo or even one of those late-night "Save the Children" 온라인카지노추천 spots has seen much more gut-punching stuff.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 1, 2008

Mike Nichols' fast-talking political comedy says every word but Osama Bin Laden.

| Original Score: B | Jan 29, 2008

It all adds up to something very unsatisfying, and less than honest.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 11, 2008

The surreal comedy is that every tense twist of this secret war is horribly true.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 11, 2008

The performances are likeable and entertaining, while Nichols pumps the whole proceedings with a satisfyingly fluid, dramatic energy.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Jan 11, 2008

Extremely enjoyable. Although it's a little tonally unsure, whenever Hanks and Hoffman are on screen, any misgivings are forgiven.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2008

War has rarely been this much fun, but director Mike Nichols is careful to offset the mischief with a poignant reminder of the days that lay ahead.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 7, 2008

Nichols and Sorkin have made a Cadillac of a movie, a handsome, beautifully designed chassis with a powerful motor and luxurious attention to detail.

| Jan 2, 2008

Maybe it wasn't his fault those chickens came home to roost in the form of the Taliban, but you have to wonder: Would Nichols have given Oliver North such an easy ride?

| Dec 27, 2007

It's a homerun.

Full Review | Dec 26, 2007

A terrific tale of political wheeling and dealing.

Full Review | Dec 21, 2007

Something doesn't smell right with Charlie Wilson's War. I'm not particularly concerned with the specific facts it has left out of its telling. But what has been left in feels compromised and dodgy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 21, 2007

A well-intentioned wreck.

| Original Score: C | Dec 21, 2007

It is briskly paced, nimbly acted and crisply directed by Mike Nichols.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2007

If Charlie doesn't feel quite real, Hanks at least makes him good company.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2007

A feel-good comedy about a covert US effort to fund resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? What will Hollywood think of next?

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 21, 2007