Editor’s note: “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” opens this week from Paramount Pictures, featuring star Tina Fey in the rare role that’s much more dramatic than it is comedic. Chief film critic ...

The title of “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is in some ways more interesting to contemplate than the movie itself: Some will immediately recognize it as military-alphabet-speak for “WTF,” while ...

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot turns the story of the war in Afghanistan into one woman’s quest for personal betterment. At first, I found it strange that the film could conflate these two ideas into one ...

Tina Fey gets this. Fey and screenwriter Robert Carlock expertly find the funny in the grim and largely get the details right in “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot,” a new film about a reporter’s ...

The film highlights the human qualities that ... have grown accustomed to the combat environment. That's what “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” does so well. It puts us into the same punishing ...

Despite being a story centered on a woman in a typically man’s world, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot avoids the serious cliches and tired sexism that a lesser film would stoop to in order to create ...

(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT") SCOTT TAKEDA: (As Ed Farber) The network needs reporters on the ground in Afghanistan. And you folks are all the unmarried, childless personnel in this ...

whose gruff comedic stylings meld better with the tonal switches than maybe anyone in the entire film). Whiskey Tango Foxtrot fares far better as it accumulates experiences for Fey, and while none of ...

However, WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT is the exception to that rule – actually a very entertaining film, thanks largely to a strong supporting cast that includes Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, and ...

Watch a film clip from "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot," starring Tina Fey. Photo: Paramount Pictures “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot”—military code for WTF—shows the enjoyable virtues and severe ...

The title of “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is in some ways more interesting to contemplate than the movie itself: Some will immediately recognize it as military-alphabet-speak for “WTF,” while its ...