Name : Rex Reed / Alias : New York Observer
The movie wafts and drones and shifts gears so many times that it is never as funny, pointed, jaundiced or clever as it could have been, and much less politically significant than it should be.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
The most important aspects of this striking story have been scrubbed away or laundered into Hollywood-style pseudo-psychological neutrality.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In Bullock, "Crisis" has a star who makes the whole thing seem better than it probably is.

Name : Richard Brody / Alias : New Yorker
Green . has little feel for the movie's comic turns, and his way with the drama is held back by his obvious and conventional sympathies.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
The film indulges in the unabashed goofiness that stoked Green's "Pineapple Express," and which Sandra Bullock demonstrated to raucous effect in "The Heat."

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
For a movie about political messaging, Our Brand Is Crisis doesn't know what it's selling besides Sandra Bullock's lusciously buttery dye job.

Name : Scott Tobias / Alias : NPR
The film becomes a Sandra Bullock vehicle, and while it's buoyed by her typical comic aplomb, it loses sight of the bigger picture.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
A horror film wrapped in a fast-talking political comedy.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
[Bullock's] role as a weary Machiavelli in sunglasses and trench coat gives her little to work with but a stream of jaded one-liners.

Name : Jocelyn Noveck / Alias : Associated Press
An excellent supporting cast includes Anthony Mackie and the terrific Ann Dowd as fellow consultants. Yet it all rests on Bullock. She's fun to watch.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
You want to know how the Janes of the world happen. Is it money? Power? Ideology? You never find out.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Like the politicians and political consultants it mocks, "Our Brand Is Crisis" doesn't completely deliver on what it promises.

Name : Peter Debruge / Alias : Variety
Green and company put an artificial ceiling on the pic's satirical potential. Had they fictionalized the country, "Crisis" could have joined the ranks of "Duck Soup" or "The Mouse That Roared."

Name : Bruce Kirkland / Alias : Toronto Sun
[Bullock] has the knack of playing someone who is seriously flawed, yet still appealing for her smarts, her broken heart and her sharp wit.

Name : John Semley / Alias : Globe and Mail
Say what you will about the sneering, misanthropic political dramas of previous eras (Blow Out, JFK and so on). But at least they came by their cynicism in good faith.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
The movie is funny enough to get its share of laughs but, in its angry heart, it's a tragedy - and the saddest part is that too much of this story is true.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
Can Sandra Bullock in top form overcome longtime American audience resistance to comedies about politics and maybe even get another nomination in the process?

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Despite Sandra Bullock's best efforts, she can't make "Our Brand Is Crisis" much more than what it is: A predictable political comedy that hits all the expected beats and goes sappy exactly when you think it will.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Our Brand is Crisis hits a lot of clunky notes and the end is unforgivably cornball, but it's still one of the liveliest political black comedies I've seen in a while.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The movie unfortunately gets stuck between edgy drama and broad comedy, and most of the humor lands with a thud, unless animals getting run over or an A-list actress mooning bus passengers get your vote.

Name : Tony Hicks / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
The overriding message, which certainly isn't new, is that power corrupts and politics is a nasty game not meant for the little people. But in "Crisis," the point is not powerfully made.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
"Crisis" squanders its intriguing premise.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
"Our Brand Is Crisis" is in that annoying category of movie that sends audiences away thinking, "It's almost good, but something is off."

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
A slick political dramedy with bursts of personal humor but an overdose of Hollywood gloss .

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
It's a case study, if nothing else, of starting with a dubious idea and making it downright awful.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
If it's satire, it's neither sharp nor especially funny. Yet it doesn't deliver emotionally, either.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Like the ruthless political strategists the film both satirizes and celebrates, Our Brand Is Crisis speaks out of both sides of its mouth.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Offers some nice behind-the-scenes glimpses of how political sausage is made just as America's political sausage is sizzling on the fire.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Here, Green disappears deeper than he ever has before into workmanlike competence; the only personal signature is a funky, slow-mo dance party, which the filmmaker somehow manages to insert into every movie he makes.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
stumbles over a vast terrain of self-serving scoundrels (Trump trumps anything they can make up), but livewire Bullock never lets hypocrisy out of her comic kill zone.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
David Gordon Green's latest unpredictable addition to his resume is offbeat and appealing on some levels but is neither as funny nor as trenchant as it might have been.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Ultimately, "Our Brand Is Crisis" isn't as hard-hitting, trenchant or angry as it should be.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Much of what the film considers fodder for satire is too familiar to feel revelatory or shocking, while characters that start out believable behave in unrecognizably ludicrous ways simply because the script forces them to.

Name : Alex Pappademas / Alias : Grantland
It's the first time I've watched a David Gordon Green movie and found myself wishing I was in the capable hands of a set-'em-up-knock-'em-down director like Jay Roach.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
A mixed-genre fable that evokes Dickensian melodrama, coming-of-age tropes and outright horror.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
When the violence gets unbearable, take comfort in the troop of trainers on the sidelines who prove that, for now, man and beast still make a good team.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
White God offers a dark - very dark - take on the way humans exert authority, and superiority, over our fellow creatures.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
A rousing creature-feature thriller and political allegory, from Hungarian director Kornel Mundrucz.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
This gripping suspense story considers how any canine can become the unfortunate repository for its master's darkest impulses.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
The obviousness of the message - follow the right leader - would be more tolerable in a less badly acted, less shoddy-looking film.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
The hand that feeds - and also brutalizes - is righteously bitten in "White God," a Hungarian revenge fantasy that's like nothing you've seen on screen before.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
It's ruthless but sentimental, gritty but fanciful, drop-dead serious but also a little impossible to take seriously.

Name : Bruce Ingram / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
Unfortunately, whatever satisfaction you may derive from seeing assorted nasty human beings get what's coming to them for betraying the trust of man's best friend is watered down by vague social and political allegory.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Even those who don't buy in completely to Mundruczo's parable will be impressed by his canine crowd scenes, staged with ambition, skill and genuinely original vision.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo downplays White God as a "genre experiment," but his film has real bite regardless.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
A B revenge movie with A-plus direction by Kornel Mundruczo and a cast of canines so personable that even when they tear out people's throats you still want to take them home.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
What it all means is open to interpretation. Read it as a parable or as a horror movie. Read it as the story of love between a girl and her dog. Read it however you want. No matter what your take, you won't be disappointed.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
Think "The Incredible Journey" crossed with "The Birds" crossed with "Rise of the Planet of the Apes." Or maybe just imagine "Cujo" as told from the dog's point of view. Don't take grandma.

Name : Farran Smith Nehme / Alias : New York Post
Director Kornel Mundruczo goes big with allegory, violence, drama and sentiment, and the results are riveting.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
It all pays off with an astounding, extended climax that is as rousing and exciting as it is frightening - one of the most surreal experiences I've ever had watching a movie.

Name : Guy Lodge / Alias : Variety
Kornel Mundruczo's sixth and best feature is an emotionally rousing, technically masterful man-vs.-dog adventure.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
The more you command it to sit and stay-to settle down as a plausible plot, or to cohere as a political fable-the more it slips its leash and runs amok.

Name : G. Allen Johnson / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Rarely does a film's execution achieve or even exceed its director's ambitions, but Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo's "White God" is that rare movie.

Name : Robert Abele / Alias : Los Angeles Times
By turns Dickensian, Marxist and dystopian, it's a movie as deliriously unclassifiable as it is expertly focused in its desire to provoke and entertain.

Name : Rafer Guzman / Alias : Newsday
Intriguing, but the movie's larger statement isn't clear.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
The whole production speaks well for the power of film; it's a serious stunner.

Name : Cath Clarke / Alias : Time Out
This powerful Hungarian drama features the Al Pacino of dog actors.