Strapped with an improbable and occasionally insulting premise (although it is VERY loosely based on the true story of Setara Hussainzada) and a third act twist into misplaced social commentary Murray's charm falls flat.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Mar 4, 2021

If you want to watch Bill Murray romp around a foreign land, re-watch Lost in Translation.

| Original Score: 2.25/5 | Jul 20, 2019

The best one can say of Rock the Kasbah is that its culturally insensitive moments feel ill-judged rather than malicious. It's not trying to punch down - it's just not funny.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2019

It's loaded with talent in front of and behind the camera that never quite clicks. It's a film that struggles in tone, largely because its lead actor, Bill Murray, comes off feeling as though he were wedged into the project.

| Original Score: D | Jan 18, 2019

Naming the movie after The Clash's late-career disco hit (which doesn't appear in the movie) [suits] what is essentially watered down-politically, musically, culturally, and cinematically.

| Aug 29, 2018

"Rock the Kasbah" is an extremely stilted piece of work that suffocates the talents of its actors.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Aug 22, 2018

This is directed by Barry Levinson, but anyone hoping for another Good Morning, Vietnam will be disappointed, despite the occasional brilliant flash of deadpan Murray and the fact that it is inspired by a true story.

| Oct 24, 2017

It's tone deaf at best and offensive imperialism at worst. Rock the Kasbah is revolting on every level.

| Oct 13, 2017

It's hard to believe that Bill Murray can be annoying.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 21, 2017

Barry Levinson's straggly sort-of-comedy is staggeringly misconceived.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2016

You don't want to see Rock the Kasbah. If you do, you're reading the wrong newspaper.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 28, 2016

Afghans in this movie are for the most part either barbaric or stupid... sometimes both.

| Sep 21, 2016

The biggest shock in a film that utilised every stereotype and clich in the book is that The Clash's Rock The Kasbah doesn't feature. It could only have improved things.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 26, 2016

Murray's performance really is one of very few saving graces in this truly underwhelming piece of cinema.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 23, 2016

Murray is entertaining but the plot seems entirely arbitrary with characters such as Kate Hudson's happy hooker Merci popping up without much rhyme or reason. A real disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2016

A dog's dinner of a movie which not even the usually reliable Bill Murray can raise above the level of confused, cliched claptrap.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 20, 2016

Barry Levinson's film, loosely inspired by the true story of reality 온라인카지노추천 show Afghan Star, comes at its subject matter from entirely the wrong direction.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2016

It's a strangely lacklustre film that's happy to plonk Murray in a vaguely interesting crisis situation -- in this case, war-torn Afghanistan -- and just hope for the best.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 18, 2016

Unfunny, and also casually offensive.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 18, 2016

It's neither funny nor feelgood, but its biggest crime is wasting Murray, left trying to mine laughs from unfunny circumstances.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2016