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It’s hard to fault a movie that takes on such a serious and pervasive problem in America, sexual harassment. Truthfully there is nothing wrong with Bombshell which chronicles the events leading up to and the aftermath of Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit against Roger Ailes and the Fox News Network. Carlson is played by Nicole Kidman, who is becoming the queen of wigs with her portrayals. It’s hard to say which wig is more obvious; the helmet look here or the ironed straight hippie one she wore in Big Little Lies. This is not to say that Nicole doesn’t give a good performance, because she does. So does Margot Robbie as the fictional character of Kayla Pospisil, a young reporter who yearns to be a news producer. Pospisil is most likely a conglomeration of several real people who are less famous than Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly. Speaking of Kelly, she is played by Oscar Winner Charlize Theron. Theron looks so much like Megyn Kelly and nothing like herself, it is uncanny. She is incredibly convincing as the famous on air journalist whose troubles seem to follow her, even when she leaves Fox, although this film doesn’t tackle any of her adventures after Fox.

The trailers for this film evoke a meta comedy, but it isn’t really a comedy; furthermore there isn’t anything very stylish or inventive about the storytelling here. The satiric, sharp tone shown in the trailer; in the famous elevator scene where all three actresses appear, never seems to gel. There is an excess of films being made about real events, scandals, and otherwise stories in the news. Some of these films are very good, like the Oscar winning Spotlight which tells the story of The Boston Globe uncovering the Boston priest sex abuse scandal. The discovery of the cover-up and true heinous nature of the Catholic Church in this film unfolds slowly with fascinating details and twists that enthrall the viewer. It’s like a detective story/thriller. The events of Bombshell are so recent, comparatively, that most people will know the outcome of the story. Furthermore the story is told in broad strokes rather than fascinating details; it’s obvious from the beginning that Roger Ailes is a creep (played deliciously by John Lithgow) and it is only a matter of time before he and Fox take a fall.

The film could have benefitted from deeper characterization, especially for its three female principals. Yes, it is easy to empathize with them, but too often the audience is held at a distance from them, from who they are inside and what makes them tick, other than ambition and retribution. Everything looks good and the execution of the film is smooth, but more nonlinear storytelling or a telescoped focus on character or a portion of the story might have made for a bigger emotional impact. I left the theater thinking what Fox did was horrible, these women were treated badly, but I already knew that.Between the misfire that was “Our Brand Is Crisis” and the unalloyed disaster of “Rock the Kasbah, ” it hasn’t been a particularly edifying period for fish-out-of-water stories featuring funny Americans bumbling their way to self-actualization in exotic, war-torn locales.

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“Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, ” an amenable, easygoing version of the story starring Tina Fey, is the least objectionable of the bunch, though it falls prey to some similarly regrettable assumptions. Adapted from journalist Kim Barker’s 2011 memoir “The Taliban Shuffle, ” which recounted her experiences reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Chicago Tribune, this plunge into the adrenaline-fueled world of war reporting winds up being surprisingly winning and low-key, giving Fey a welcome chance to dial down the gag-centric humor that defines most of her comedy work, and to deliver a warm, understated portrayal of a woman who’s more rueful and self-aware than zanily madcap.

Kim Baker (the “r” has been dropped to maximize creative license) arrives in Afghanistan in 2003, having hit the wall professionally as a network news writer and seeking adventure and change. She’s given a room in a Kabul apartment building known as the “Fun House, ” a den of iniquity that’s part frat house, part forward operating base. Among her instant friends include a Lara Logan-esque TV journalist named Tanya (Margot Robbie), a dashing Scottish photographer named Ian (Martin Freeman) and Baker’s “fixer, ” a quietly observant local named Fahim.

The fact that Fahim is played by American actor Christopher Abbott – and a Kabul politician is played by British actor Alfred Molina – is no less tone deaf for the fact that both men deliver sensitive, funny performances. The sight of white actors donning beards and Afghan pakols to depict “foreign” characters is wincingly off-putting, as is the tendency of “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” to present Afghanistan as a dusty, chaotic backdrop for its heroine’s personal catharsis. (The correspondents’ clique is constantly referred to as the “Kabubble.”)

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At one point, Kim refers to “the real world” as if Afghanistan was somehow a piquant detour, which might capture her own journey into the hothouse atmosphere of war reporting but also speaks volumes about the film’s own solipsism.

Still, considering the film’s own “Kabubble” mindset, Fey and her directors, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, find real emotion in the character’s journey, which includes a brief, very believable love affair and a growing friendship with Fahim that results in an affectingly choreographed encounter toward the film’s end. (Billy Bob Thornton also deserves credit for his delightful cameo as a gruff Marine general.) Baker even has a gratifying moment of reckoning, during which one of the first soldiers she interviews on her beat delivers a moving speech about getting over self-pity and moving on.

As evidenced in such past films as “I Love You, Philip Morris” and “Crazy, Stupid Love, ” Ficarra and Requa like tonally off-kilter films that don’t fit comfortably into ready-made genres. True to that ethos, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” possesses plenty of laid-back humor, flawlessly delivered by Fey, but its wry tone and pathos keep it from being an out-and-out comedy.

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That’s the strength of a film that, at its best, captures the dizzyingly contradictory feelings of attraction and horror toward the life-and-death stakes of war, and of feeling both at home and at sea in a cacophonous, confounding world. True to its title, as well as its flawed but sympathetic protagonist, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is more confused than cynical or opportunistic. Its bewilderment is contagious, and ultimately endearing.

That’s the strength of a film that, at its best, captures the dizzyingly contradictory feelings of attraction and horror toward the life-and-death stakes of war, and of feeling both at home and at sea in a cacophonous, confounding world. True to its title, as well as its flawed but sympathetic protagonist, “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” is more confused than cynical or opportunistic. Its bewilderment is contagious, and ultimately endearing.