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- Dragan Antulov @ Draxblog VI [Croatian]
- [New] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Texan Reviews
- Excerpt: Vice has no sympathy for its devil. It’s too scattershot and slightly smug to be insightful or clever, two things it wants to be.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: While the multiple story lines and complex subject of his last were buoyed by McKay’s amusing financial explanatory asides, his use of the same device for this single-stranded biopic is overbearing and unwarranted.
- Karl Delossantos @ Smash Cut Reviews
- Excerpt: Vice tries to grapple with the second Bush’s years in office through Dick Cheney but ends up with nothing to show for its efforts.
- Herman Dhaliwal @ Cinema Sanctum
- Excerpt: Vice is a film I admired more than I liked. Performances are strong, and McKay’s filmmaking style, while overwhelming at times, brings some liveliness that puts it above most run-of-the-mill biopics.
- Candice Frederick @ The Wrap
- Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: First you have to ask yourself, do I really want to watch a biopic about Dick Cheney?
- Wesley Lovell @ Cinema Sight
- Excerpt: Political satires have been a mainstay of print and television for decades, but cinema has found the brief spurts of creativity separated by years of absence. “Vice” is the latest film by director Adam McKay to take on the subgenre, suggesting a modern rebirth is almost in full swing.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: A take-no-prisoners look at former Vice President Dick Cheney and the policies he spearheaded that arguably damaged America irreparably.
- Jared Mobarak @ BuffaloVibe
- Excerpt: Vice isn’t scathing enough to offset its inherent humanizing geniality.
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: Vice is an all too relevant satire when yet another idiot is running the show in 2018.
- Aaron Neuwirth @ We Live Entertainment
- Excerpt: Vice feels more refined than The Big Short, as McKay has grown more confident, but the film lacks an extra punch as a result.
- C.H. Newell @ Father Son Holy Gore
- Excerpt: McKay’s film focuses on how America corrupts individuals, like Cheney, who further go on to corrupt the country in a perpetual cycle of decadence that erodes whatever good ever existed at the nation’s core.
- Joao Pinto @ Portal Cinema [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Another top film product by Adam McKay!
- Bev Questad @ It’s Just Movies
- Excerpt: …a film all Americans should see.
- Ruben Rigaud @ cocalecas.net [Spanish]
- Júlio Cézar Rodrigues @ Megalomania Cultural [Portuguese]
- Excerpt: Undeniably messy, but incredibly funny, it brings one of the most astounding transformations suffered by an actor.
- Diego Salgado @ Guía del Ocio [Spanish]
- Don Shanahan @ Every Movie Has a Lesson
- Excerpt: Hazy in some moments, hasty in others, and always provocative, Vice is easily the most polarizing film of the year. The movie is not unlike Cheney’s own aim with a shotgun, hitting and missing plenty with occasional collateral damage.
- Danielle Solzman @ Solzy at the Movies
- Betty Jo Tucker @ ReelTalk Movie Reviews
- Excerpt: Christian Bale manages to project a Dick Cheney aura, but Sam Rockwell really convinced me he was George W. Bush!
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