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War Dogs

2016

Todd Phillips

Jonah Hill, Miles Teller, Ana de Armas, Kevin Pollak ...

6.3

13,873

Thriller. Drama The true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.

	Media	Author	Review
		Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"A curiously joyless movie that tries to channel the giddy amorality of Dr. Strangelove but forgets to add jokes or dramatic stakes (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Fun enough, as late-summer studio comedies go"
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Finally, a movie that answers the question: 'What if the director of The Hangover tried to make The Wolf of Wall Street?'"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'War Dogs' marks a key turning point for Phillips. After all these years of yocks, it’s his first true grown-up movie, and it’s a nimble, gripping, and terrific one"
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"[An] undeniably entertaining, wickedly funny and justifiably cynical satire (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"A waste of time for everyone involved, not least its leading men Miles Teller and Jonah Hill, neither of whom exhibit even the tiniest amount of their usual onscreen charisma"
		Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'War Dogs' is that rare contemporary comedy that knows how to make a laugh stick in your throat (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"
		Peter Hartlaub SFGATE	"A solid piece of in-the-moment entertainment that fails in its attempt to be something more"
		Brian Truitt USA Today	"The film is loaded with a gripping plot and enjoyably sketchy characters but hobbled by an uneven tone that ricochets between zany comedy and serious crime thriller (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A strangely tiresome film with little in the way of comedy, (...) perpetually telling us how amoral arms dealing is – but yet how funny and cool these particular arms dealers are. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Neil Genzlinger The New York Times	"[Todd Phillips] delivers an entertaining tale, especially when one or both men have to travel from their home base in Florida to overseas hot spots to correct their ineptitude."

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