provocative, intelligent but just a bit underwhelming, "Our Brand Is Crisis" - inspired by a 2005 documentary of the same name - plays as if the filmmakers started out with Oscar aspirations but ultimately weren't up to the challenge
is a decent movie - even if it's not sure if it's a comedy (Bullock falls down stairs, lugs around an oxygen machine, throws up, etc.), a jagged lesson in politics or a grand statement about fighting the power
instead of leaning into the biting commentary and relevant issues of that story, however, the new movie's fictionalized journey gets too starstruck with its own familiar faces