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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Movie ID: 816

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Release year: 2006

Runtime: 84 mins

Wide release date: 2006-11-03

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Streaming release date: 2015-11-25

Tomatometer final: 90%

Audience score final: 79%

Genres: Comedy

Directors: Larry Charles

Writers: Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen

Producers: Jay Roach, Sacha Baron Cohen

MPAA rating: R

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Synopsis

Outrageous situations occur when a popular reporter (Sacha Baron Cohen) from Kazakhstan comes to the United States to film a documentary.

Consensus

Part satire, part shockumentary, Borat gets high-fives almost all-around for being offensive in the funniest possible way. Jagshemash!

Latest Snapshot / Canonical Review Totals

Canonical reviews: 219

Canonical fresh: 198

Canonical rotten: 21

Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 90%

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Snapshot Tomatometer: 90%

Snapshot review count: 219

Snapshot fresh count: 198

Snapshot rotten count: 21

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Companies

Company Role
20th Century Fox distributor
Gold/Miller Productions production
Major Studio Partners production

Cast

Billing Name Character
1 Sacha Baron Cohen Borat
2 Pamela Anderson Self
3 Ken Davitian Azamat Bagatov
4 Luenell Luenell
5 Bob Barr Self

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ID Critic Outlet Fresh? Score RT Time Raw Approx Published UTC Quote
179498 David Walsh World Socialist Web Site Rotten 2021-02-14T16:31:42Z 2021-02-14 16:31:42 In the tactics of Cohen, Charles and their collaborators ... there is a level of social insularity, sneering and intellectual sadism that is positively disturbing.
179499 Richard Crouse Richard Crouse Fresh 4/5 2021-01-31T22:32:44Z 2021-01-31 22:32:44 Borat is funny, spleen-bursting funny, although you may catch yourself wondering if these are the kind of jokes you should be laughing at.
179500 Micheal Compton Bowling Green Daily News Fresh 2019-11-20T21:03:48Z 2019-11-20 21:03:48 It wallows gleefully in its very un-PC humor, but that is part of what makes it work so well. Cohen and director Larry Charles make the unthinkable funny -- and in the process might just get you to think about racism, bigotry and sexism.
179501 Mattie Lucas The Dispatch (Lexington, NC) Fresh 3.5/4 2019-06-06T02:46:28Z 2019-06-06 02:46:28 A gut-busting, uncompromising, totally outrageous film that takes the comedy of embarrassment to new, unprecedented levels.
179502 Joel Siegel Good Morning America Fresh A 2018-01-05T00:31:48Z 2018-01-05 00:31:48 Offensive? Yes, but I haven't laughed this hard since the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy.
179503 Nick Pinkerton Stop Smiling Fresh 2016-06-08T13:22:40Z 2016-06-08 13:22:40 For better or for worse, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is unique, an important movie, a multiplex comedy that doubles as a conceptual art epic.
179504 Gabe Leibowitz Film and Felt Fresh 65/100 2009-09-19T15:28:16Z 2009-09-19 15:28:16 Frequently uproarious and occasionally side-splitting -- but it's very hit-or-miss, prone to stretches of unnecessary crudeness and flat one-liners.
179505 Fernando F. Croce CinePassion Fresh 2009-08-28T11:18:34Z 2009-08-28 11:18:34 Often functions hilariously as an exposé of squirming American tolerance shading into condescension toward the rest of the world
179506 Mark Pfeiffer Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema Fresh A 2009-07-10T18:22:57Z 2009-07-10 18:22:57 Borat is the rare comedy that operates without a safety net. Cohen and director Larry Charles' film provides constant laughter and surprises while daring the viewer to be rightfully offended.
179507 Peter Keough Boston Phoenix Fresh 3/4 2009-04-23T03:15:51Z 2009-04-23 03:15:51 Although I knew it was dishonest, cynical, and the ultimate in cheap-shot humor, I laughed more at Borat than at any other film this year. So I guess the joke is on me.
179508 Ed Gonzalez House Next Door Fresh 2008-07-16T13:15:27Z 2008-07-16 13:15:27 Borat's cultural learning is revealing, even if it doesn't adequately convey how it benefits glorious nation of Kazakhstan.
179509 Matthew De Abaitua Film4 Fresh 5/5 2008-05-18T09:13:14Z 2008-05-18 09:13:14 Borat is the funniest film imaginable right now.
179510 Tricia Olszewski Washington City Paper Fresh 2008-03-06T16:54:19Z 2008-03-06 16:54:19 The most impressive ingredient is Cohen, whose inflection and timing are dead-on as he negotiates a vague accent, a native language composed of gibberish and a sprinkling of Polish, and a way of making tired American jokes funny again.
179511 Brandon Fibbs BrandonFibbs.com Fresh 7/10 2008-02-28T13:43:42Z 2008-02-28 13:43:42 America, you got punk'd and the result is horrifying. Borat paints a picture of the American landscape that would induce nightmares were you not laughing so hard.
179512 David Ansen Newsweek Fresh 2007-11-01T03:15:21Z 2007-11-01 03:15:21 The backlash just proves how deep a nerve the faux Kazakh journalist has hit.
179513 Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault Fresh A 2007-07-23T18:38:20Z 2007-07-23 18:38:20 A rude punk-rock snapshot of an America that quails at two men kissing but cheers the notion of George W. Bush drinking the blood of 'every man, woman and child in Iraq.'
179514 Joe Lozito Big Picture Big Sound Fresh 3.5/4 2007-07-14T03:42:10Z 2007-07-14 03:42:10 By the end, you're eager to wrap things up. Along the way, though, Borat is a helluva ride.
179515 Felix Gonzalez Jr. DVD Review Fresh 2007-07-10T22:05:46Z 2007-07-10 22:05:46 Like great theatre, Borat holds up a mirror to its obliviously intolerant audience ... that serves as a shocking, but entertaining wake-up call.
179516 Jason Gorber Film Scouts Fresh A 2007-06-21T15:55:07Z 2007-06-21 15:55:07 There is little that is subtle about the Borat film - it's a "make sex on your face" kind of experience, an onslaught of Jew, Gay, "foreign", Baptist and Texan jokes. It's also very, very funny.
179517 Brian Tallerico UGO Fresh 2007-03-24T12:07:44Z 2007-03-24 12:07:44 The genius of Borat is all in Sacha Baron Cohen's daring, edgy, unrestrained performance.
179518 Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews Fresh 2007-03-11T12:00:46Z 2007-03-11 12:00:46 Not as good as the HBO show. Dumbed down by Larry Charles?
179519 Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Fresh 5/5 2007-03-08T16:41:39Z 2007-03-08 16:41:39 Uma comédia não apenas engraçadíssima (algo cada vez mais raro), mas também inteligente e repleta de observações importantes sobre a Sociedade norte-americana contemporânea.
179520 Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Rotten 82/100 2007-03-06T04:58:01Z 2007-03-06 04:58:01 ... contrary to what the cynical profess, it is possible to cheat an honest man. It's certainly easier to fool the naive and the innocent than your average wised-up consumer of pop culture.
179521 Jean-François Vandeuren Panorama Fresh 8/10 2007-02-26T08:03:09Z 2007-02-26 08:03:09 En se donnant lui-même carte blanche, Cohen conféra une étonnante crédibilité à un personnage qui, en soi, n'en a absolument aucune.
179522 Enrique Buchichio Uruguay Total Fresh 3/5 2007-02-22T10:12:20Z 2007-02-22 10:12:20 Un falso documental bastante transgresor e irregular que desafía lo políticamente correcto. Su mayor logro es desnudar la hipocresía, el racismo y la xenofobia del estadounidense promedio.
179523 Philip French Observer (UK) Fresh 2007-01-20T04:59:39Z 2007-01-20 04:59:39 Spasmodically funny.
179524 Ted Murphy Murphy's Movie Reviews Rotten C 2007-01-11T15:31:54Z 2007-01-11 15:31:54 To my mind, BORAT may have worked better on the small screen and in smaller amounts. At only 82 minutes, the movie felt padded out and it began to peter out.
179525 Alan Dale Blogcritics.org Fresh 2007-01-05T08:23:24Z 2007-01-05 08:23:24 It's theatrical genius: Cohen has devised a split-level act in which being hooked off the stage by his in-the-movie audience makes for success with his at-the-movie audience.
179526 Russell Baillie New Zealand Herald Fresh 5/5 2006-12-30T05:05:10Z 2006-12-30 05:05:10 There's something about Baron Cohen's fervent and frankly Oscar-worthy performance that makes you wonder if somewhere up there, Peter Sellers is enjoying a good chuckle at his heir apparent.
179527 Kam Williams Upstage Magazine Fresh 4/4 2006-12-28T19:58:06Z 2006-12-28 19:58:06 Horrifying, vulgar and exploitative, yet simultaneously inspired, brilliant, convulsively hilarious, and easily the funniest film of the year.
179528 Michael A. Smith Nolan's Pop Culture Review Fresh 4/4 2006-12-13T22:02:27Z 2006-12-13 22:02:27 That Cohen never breaks character, no matter the situation, is a true testament to his comic genius. He and director Larry Charles ("Curb Your Enthusiasm") have created the funniest film since "Something About Mary," and believe me, that's a rave review.
179529 Leo Goldsmith Reverse Shot Fresh 2006-12-08T15:07:51Z 2006-12-08 15:07:51 A force of political provocation less on the level of the cuddly Archie Bunker and more on that of Pasolini's libertines in Salò and Pink Flamingos' "filthiest people alive."
179530 Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel 3BlackChicks Review Fresh 4/5 2006-12-06T18:34:05Z 2006-12-06 18:34:05 I may never recover, but it's worth seeing. Just leave your sensibilities at home. .
179531 Ross Anthony Hollywood Report Card Fresh 2.5/4 2006-12-04T21:48:41Z 2006-12-04 21:48:41 1) See the movie and laugh. 2) Go out and do something very sweet for someone you don't even know to balance things out.
179532 Gina Carbone Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) Fresh 3/4 2006-12-02T08:10:29Z 2006-12-02 08:10:29 As hard as I laughed watching Borat and Azamat's naked, hairy man-on-man fight over a Baywatch magazine, it was more enlightening to sit in an RV listening to white frat boys talk about how minority women catch all the breaks.
179533 Lewis Beale Film Journal International Rotten 2006-12-01T06:56:12Z 2006-12-01 06:56:12 After a while, the gaggle of idiots, creeps and stuffed shirts Borat comes in contact with becomes repetitive.
179534 Forrest Hartman Reno Gazette-Journal Fresh 3/4 2006-11-30T16:28:28Z 2006-11-30 16:28:28 While Borat is not the revolution some entertainment writers would have you believe it does offer a pleasant night in the theater.
179535 Stuart Klawans The Nation Fresh 2006-11-25T05:01:25Z 2006-11-25 05:01:25 Borat is the movie of the year, the picture that makes all other films irrelevant.
179536 Mel Valentin Movie-Vault.com Fresh 9/10 2006-11-25T05:01:22Z 2006-11-25 05:01:22
179537 Luke Buckmaster In Film Australia Fresh 4/5 2006-11-24T03:17:51Z 2006-11-24 03:17:51
179538 Joe Williams St. Louis Post-Dispatch Fresh A 2006-11-22T08:59:04Z 2006-11-22 08:59:04 Borat is a serious work of social criticism. But it's also the funniest movie I've ever seen.
179539 James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Fresh 4/5 2006-11-22T03:17:28Z 2006-11-22 03:17:28 Vulgar, hilarious, and frighteningly revealing.
179540 Jay Antani Cinema Writer Fresh 2.5/4 2006-11-20T22:57:09Z 2006-11-20 22:57:09 In spots, the movie can be hysterical. But, for the most part, its appeal is not unlike that of a veteran rock band putting on a greatest hits concert.
179541 Christopher Smith Bangor Daily News (Maine) Fresh B+ 2006-11-20T18:11:56Z 2006-11-20 18:11:56 The movie's twist is whether we should pity those real-life Americans tricked by Cohen, who is Jewish, into revealing some rather telling sides of themselves.
179542 Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile Rotten 2006-11-18T20:05:26Z 2006-11-18 20:05:26 A film that ignites the baser passions, satisfies the lowest common denominator and makes sure that it offends equally. That is the film's weakness and why it is a quick hit with no lasting value.
179543 Daniel Kasman d+kaz. intelligent movie reviews Rotten C+ 2006-11-18T04:48:55Z 2006-11-18 04:48:55
179544 Eric Lurio Greenwich Village Gazette Fresh 5/5 2006-11-18T04:48:53Z 2006-11-18 04:48:53 The guiltiest pleasure of the year!
179545 Andrew Sarris Observer Rotten 2006-11-15T12:46:00Z 2006-11-15 12:46:00 The theory of comedy here is that you can get away with almost anything if you manage to make your target audience feel superior to the human beings being mocked on the screen.
179546 Linda Cook Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) Fresh 3.5/4 2006-11-14T04:53:46Z 2006-11-14 04:53:46 Bigots can be hilarious.
179547 Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Fresh A- 2006-11-13T22:44:40Z 2006-11-13 22:44:40 An outrageously crude slapstick comedy that is by the way heady and politically aware.
179548 Mark Dujsik Mark Reviews Movies Fresh 4/4 2006-11-13T20:19:34Z 2006-11-13 20:19:34 This is not only the best comedy of the year; it may well be the best comedy in a decade. Hell, it might be the best comedy in one-score years. Maybe even one-score years plus a decade.
179549 Robert Roten Laramie Movie Scope Fresh B+ 2006-11-13T14:51:37Z 2006-11-13 14:51:37 It is more than just a silly comedy. Like a social science documentary, it also reveals the racism and hatred that simmers in America.
179550 Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper Fresh 2006-11-13T12:42:07Z 2006-11-13 12:42:07 I did find this to be one of the more inventive, aggressively offensive and insanely tasteless comedies in many a year. And yeah, that's a thumbs-up.
179551 Jim Lane Sacramento News & Review Fresh 3/5 2006-11-13T08:51:03Z 2006-11-13 08:51:03 Cohen will do anything for a laugh, and he gets quite a few.
179552 MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher Fresh 2006-11-12T23:41:30Z 2006-11-12 23:41:30 Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius. A crazy genius, maybe, a man who takes dedication to his art to a level courting criminal prosecution and bodily harm, but a genius nevertheless.
179553 Ken Eisner Georgia Straight Fresh 2006-11-11T04:33:19Z 2006-11-11 04:33:19 Cohen, abetted by director Larry Charles, makes a meal of Borat Sagdiyev, a profoundly ignorant, deeply sexist, and determinedly anti-Semitic news reporter from Kazakhstan who nonetheless projects a kind of appealing, and appalling, innocence.
179554 David N. Butterworth rec.arts.movies.reviews Fresh 3.5/4 2006-11-11T04:33:16Z 2006-11-11 04:33:16 Very nice. Happy times. Great success.
179555 Jonathan W. Hickman Entertainment Insiders Fresh 3.5/4 2006-11-11T04:33:12Z 2006-11-11 04:33:12 The funniest film I've seen this year.
179556 Lori Hoffman Atlantic City Weekly Rotten 1/4 2006-11-10T09:40:11Z 2006-11-10 09:40:11 ... the male-oriented humor in this movie goes right in the toilet, literally, and never recovers.
179557 John Wirt Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) Fresh 8/10 2006-11-10T09:13:05Z 2006-11-10 09:13:05 Maybe most funny movie-film you see in your lifes.
179558 Jim Chastain Norman Transcript Rotten C+ 2006-11-10T08:19:11Z 2006-11-10 08:19:11 Great satire, perhaps, but remarkably painful.
179559 Bill Gibron DVD Verdict Fresh 3/5 2006-11-09T16:35:16Z 2006-11-09 16:35:16 This is not to say that the movie is a bomb. In fact, (Borat)'s one of 2006's most light-hearted and warm surprises. It's just not the greatest, most daring, or controversial film in the history of humor.
179560 James Sanford Kalamazoo Gazette Fresh 3/4 2006-11-09T12:58:52Z 2006-11-09 12:58:52 a great litmus test for determining exactly how far a joke can go before you stop laughing. ...the movie isn't about promoting ignorance and intolerance but about exposing it through humor.
179561 Sean O'Connell Charlotte Weekly Fresh 3/4 2006-11-09T08:58:55Z 2006-11-09 08:58:55 Has huge laughs.
179562 Cynthia Fuchs PopMatters Rotten 2006-11-09T07:13:43Z 2006-11-09 07:13:43 Like Borat, Luenelle's a joke as well as a means to target others. But unlike Borat, she doesn't have her own movie.
179563 Sean McBride Sean the Movie Guy Fresh 3.5/4 2006-11-08T17:34:20Z 2006-11-08 17:34:20 very brash, funny stuff that would make Andy Kaufman quite proud.
179564 Ken Hanke Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) Fresh 4/5 2006-11-08T15:53:46Z 2006-11-08 15:53:46 A surprisingly successful (most of the time) elaboration on a fairly simple sketch idea -- one that is often subversive and generally very funny.
179565 Mark R. Leeper rec.arts.movies.reviews Rotten 1/10 2006-11-08T08:32:59Z 2006-11-08 08:32:59 Dreadful hardly seems to cover this film. BORAT is a barrage of is one stupid vulgarity after another.
179566 Walter Chaw Film Freak Central Fresh 3/4 2006-11-07T19:57:11Z 2006-11-07 19:57:11 We might be stuck in the quagmire in which we're stuck because the best intended were too deadened to affect any sort of meaningful change in time to matter.
179567 David Cornelius eFilmCritic.com Rotten 1/5 2006-11-07T19:13:06Z 2006-11-07 19:13:06 Cohen's mix of ineptitude and laziness propels this to become one of the worst comedies in recent memory.
179568 Mike McGranaghan Aisle Seat Fresh 4/4 2006-11-07T17:54:46Z 2006-11-07 17:54:46 Borat is a full-throttle comedy experience. You don't just laugh at it - you howl, often uncontrollably. I can't remember the last time a movie so completely made me go insane with laughter.
179569 Thomas Delapa Boulder Weekly Rotten 2/4 2006-11-07T13:03:56Z 2006-11-07 13:03:56 Candid Camera crossed with Jackass ... Candidly, Cohen can be a politically incorrect laugh riot, but he's often just lewd and crude, comrade.
179570 Mark Palermo The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Fresh 2006-11-06T20:10:02Z 2006-11-06 20:10:02 Cohen stages his gags with a fearlessness where viewer-discomfort is part of the thrill.
179571 Tony Medley tonymedley.com Rotten 5/10 2006-11-06T19:25:34Z 2006-11-06 19:25:34 Another anti-intellectual attempt at comedy with jokes that concentrate on male nudity, stupid ingenuity, gay sex, and excrement. Unfortunately, irreverence does not always equate to quality humor.
179572 Jeanne Kaplan Kaplan vs. Kaplan Fresh 2006-11-06T13:28:33Z 2006-11-06 13:28:33 Most of this film is designed to entertain tall 6-year-olds, my darling husband included. He laughed himself silly and I wanted to cover my head so no one would see me.
179573 David Kaplan Kaplan vs. Kaplan Fresh 2006-11-06T13:27:47Z 2006-11-06 13:27:47 Cohen's comic genius is remarkable because most of what he does is improvisation.
179574 John Beifuss Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) Fresh 4/4 2006-11-06T10:29:15Z 2006-11-06 10:29:15 To paraphrase a great possum: We have met the racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic crazy Kazakh, and he is us.
179575 Scott Nash Three Movie Buffs Fresh 2.5/4 2006-11-06T06:40:32Z 2006-11-06 06:40:32 Doesn't live up to the praise that has been heaped upon it, but it's amusing enough.
179576 Luke Y. Thompson LYTRules.com Fresh 2006-11-06T01:47:24Z 2006-11-06 01:47:24 It has great moments, but the scripted aspect of the story, which has Borat travelling cross country to propose to Pamela Anderson, isn't its strongest suit
179577 Pete Hammond Maxim Fresh 4.5/5 2006-11-05T23:49:42Z 2006-11-05 23:49:42 Thank you Kazakhstan for giving the world a pure comedic genius.
179578 David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Fresh 3/4 2006-11-05T07:38:50Z 2006-11-05 07:38:50 ...an erratic yet often hilarious comedy...
179579 Gary Brown Houston Community Newspapers Fresh 4/4 2006-11-04T16:01:11Z 2006-11-04 16:01:11 Riotously funny.
179580 Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone TheMovieChicks.com Fresh 4/5 2006-11-04T15:25:35Z 2006-11-04 15:25:35 If you laugh at vulgar jokes or things you'd be ashamed to admit to finding funny in front of your mom, as Borat might say, please to enjoy this movie.
179581 Sean P. Means Salt Lake Tribune Fresh 4/4 2006-11-04T13:36:37Z 2006-11-04 13:36:37 Cohen takes a fearless trip through America's midsection and its psyche.
179582 Dan Lybarger eFilmCritic.com Fresh 5/5 2006-11-04T12:47:42Z 2006-11-04 12:47:42 With its frequently astute social observations, "Borat" effortlessly uses bad taste for a good cause.
179583 Tom Charity CNN.com Fresh 2006-11-04T04:23:15Z 2006-11-04 04:23:15 Borat is so gut-bustingly funny it should carry a health warning.
179585 Raam Tarat Future Movies UK Fresh 8/10 2006-11-04T04:23:14Z 2006-11-04 04:23:14 Jagmeshash!! ...to one of the funniest, un-pc and gob-smackingly audacious films to be screened this year.
179584 Jason Zingale Bullz-Eye.com Fresh 4/5 2006-11-04T04:23:14Z 2006-11-04 04:23:14 It's the most sexist, racist, and all-out offensive film I've ever seen... and it also happens to be one of the funniest movies of the year.
179586 Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan Fresh 2006-11-04T04:23:12Z 2006-11-04 04:23:12 The whole film is silly, but strangely enough, crude as many of the jokes are, I haven't laughed this much in a long, long time.
179587 Alex Billington FirstShowing.net Fresh 9.5/10 2006-11-03T23:49:42Z 2006-11-03 23:49:42 This movie finally puts together endless amounts of comedy intertwined with a coherent and equally-enjoyable plot in the quest for Pamela Anderson.
179588 Edward Douglas ComingSoon.net Rotten 5/10 2006-11-03T20:22:30Z 2006-11-03 20:22:30 It's sad that anyone can claim brilliance to this unoriginal one-joke character.
179589 John Venable Supercala.com Fresh 10/10 2006-11-03T18:04:17Z 2006-11-03 18:04:17 The film might as well be entitled Retarded America, but lumping these idiots in with our mentally challenged population would be an insult.
179590 Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) Rotten 2/4 2006-11-03T16:41:53Z 2006-11-03 16:41:53 A cinematic stunt that works occasionally, but not often enough.
179591 Carol Cling Las Vegas Review-Journal Fresh B+ 2006-11-03T15:53:26Z 2006-11-03 15:53:26 Americans emerge as the target of Borat's most scathing observations. Chances are, however, you'll be too busy busting a gut to complain.
179592 Nathan Rabin AV Club Fresh B+ 2006-11-03T14:44:24Z 2006-11-03 14:44:24 Cohen's genius lies in combining the chameleon-like virtuosity of Peter Sellers with the balls-out fearlessness of the Jackass crew.
179593 Rebecca Murray About.com Fresh A- 2006-11-03T14:44:05Z 2006-11-03 14:44:05 It's fearless and disgusting and hilarious - high five!
179594 Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Fresh 3/4 2006-11-03T14:25:46Z 2006-11-03 14:25:46 It's a fearless performance and yields some squirm-inducingly funny moments.
179595 Claudia Puig USA Today Fresh 3.5/4 2006-11-03T14:21:52Z 2006-11-03 14:21:52 In an era of stale, formulaic comedies, this uproarious and ribald faux documentary is like a hit of pure oxygen.
179596 Donald Munro Fresno Bee Fresh B+ 2006-11-03T14:16:48Z 2006-11-03 14:16:48 One of the meanest movies you'll ever see, which counts as pretty high praise for a comedy
179597 Geoff Pevere Toronto Star Fresh 3.5/4 2006-11-03T14:14:48Z 2006-11-03 14:14:48 Somewhere in standup comedy heaven Andy Kaufman is smiling. Possibly even busting a gut.

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