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- 90New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIt's hard to know whether to marvel or weep when James Carville goes into his Bill Clinton–meets–Looney Tunes act in Rachel Boynton's knockout documentary Our Brand Is Crisis--the context is so morally topsy-turvy.
- 88TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxWhat's suspenseful - and so troubling - is seeing exactly how far the "progressives" of GCS are willing to go to put a decidedly unpopular candidate back into office, regardless of what it will mean for the future of the country and for Bolivian democracy itself.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanOur Brand Is Crisis manages to be remarkably suspenseful.
- Boynton's Our Brand Is Crisis, which chronicles the entire election-strategizing process in scrupulous detail, will pack a punch with even the most informed viewer.
- 75The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinRosner works for famed Democratic strategist James Carville, who stops just short of dry-humping the camera lens in his hunger for the spotlight here. Our Brand Is Crisis is full of strangely resonant parallels to American politics.
- 70Film ThreatMerle BertrandFilm ThreatMerle BertrandIf the fascinating, if disconcerting Our Brand Is Crisis teaches us one thing, it's that consultants, handlers, lawyers, and middlemen can always find a job.
- 70SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirWhat makes Boynton's film stand out amid the current crop of political documentaries is its rigorous reportorial fairness, and its refusal to simplify material in order to score facile ideological points.
- 70VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibProves as entertaining as the earlier "The War Room," which also featured Carville, but is more somber.
- 70The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyAmong other things, Our Brand Is Crisis is about the failure of good intentions--a potent American theme at the moment. As the movie suggests, this failure, born of American arrogance, embraces liberals as well as neocons.
- 38New York PostNew York PostBoynton isn't interested in telling a story, only in the atmosphere of political consultancy.