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Movie ID: 817
RT slug: borat_subsequent_moviefilm
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/borat_subsequent_moviefilm
Release year: —
Runtime: 96 mins
Wide release date: —
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2020-10-23
Tomatometer final: 85%
Audience score final: 62%
Genres: Comedy
Directors: Jason Woliner
Writers: Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer, Dan Swimer, Erica Rivinoja, Jena Friedman, Lee Kern, Peter Baynham, Sacha Baron Cohen
Producers: Anthony Hines, Monica Levinson, Sacha Baron Cohen
MPAA rating: R
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-06-18 18:55:07
Updated: 2026-06-18 18:55:07
Released from prison for bringing shame to his country, Kazakh funnyman Borat risks life and limb when he returns to America with his 15-year-old daughter.
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm proves Sacha Baron Cohen's comedic creation remains a sharp tool for exposing the most misguided -- or utterly repugnant -- corners of American culture.
Canonical reviews: 306
Canonical fresh: 259
Canonical rotten: 47
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 85%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-06-18 15:43:08
Snapshot Tomatometer: 85%
Snapshot review count: 306
Snapshot fresh count: 259
Snapshot rotten count: 47
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #1470 (full_snapshot)
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| 1 | Sacha Baron Cohen | Borat |
| 2 | Maria Bakalova | Sandra Jessica Parker Sagdiyev |
| 3 | Dani Popescu | Premier Nazarbayev |
| 4 | Manuel Vieru | Dr. Yamak |
| 5 | Miroslav Tolj | Nursultan Tulyakbay |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 179717 | Patrick Beatty | ABC4 Utah | Fresh | — | 2025-07-23T13:31:33Z | 2025-07-23 13:31:33 | That’s what Borat is good at. These films tap into the trends and what’s happening right now. |
| 179718 | Joonatan Itkonen | Region Free | Fresh | 3/5 | 2024-07-05T10:10:18Z | 2024-07-05 10:10:18 | In doing the same act once again, the film has to tiptoe a very fine line, one that doesn’t allow it the freedom to say as much as it probably should. But boy, is it funny. Maybe, for now, that’s enough. |
| 179719 | Greg Carlson | Vague Visages | Fresh | — | 2024-02-07T00:23:28Z | 2024-02-07 00:23:28 | A finely calibrated blend of lowbrow vulgarity and sharp social satire, 'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' is a document — or mockument — of and for the moment. |
| 179720 | PJ Grisar | The Forward | Fresh | — | 2023-07-26T14:21:15Z | 2023-07-26 14:21:15 | Unlike its predecessor, this “Borat” leans less on shock value and succeeds in storytelling, solid gags and a more arresting character arc for Borat and his charge in their “Paper Moon”-like tour of the country. |
| 179721 | Vadim Rizov | Filmmaker Magazine | Rotten | — | 2022-11-29T17:08:16Z | 2022-11-29 17:08:16 | Mostly tedious or borderline unwatchable for much of its running time in ways that are eminently predictable—but when, 70 minutes in, Baron Cohen finally gets around to making some news, he does not miss. |
| 179722 | Keith Garlington | Keith & the Movies | Rotten | 2/5 | 2022-08-19T21:06:30Z | 2022-08-19 21:06:30 | This time around everything feels far more manufactured... |
| 179723 | David Gonzalez | The Cinematic Reel | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2022-02-18T15:29:41Z | 2022-02-18 15:29:41 | There is no denying Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm is one of the best and most entertaining films of the year. |
| 179724 | Nicolás Delgadillo | Discussing Film | Fresh | — | 2021-06-26T00:51:07Z | 2021-06-26 00:51:07 | 4 / 5 Proof that Cohen still has an ability to shock and provoke even the most hardened and cynical of viewers. |
| 179725 | Mark Beaumont | NME (New Musical Express) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-06-15T19:30:41Z | 2021-06-15 19:30:41 | Such dedication to his comedy prompts as much amazement as hilarity; even when left to his own devices Baron Cohen wastes no time... |
| 179726 | Paul Attard | In Review Online | Rotten | — | 2021-06-05T15:50:09Z | 2021-06-05 15:50:09 | Cohen and director Jason Woliner ... have deluded themselves into believing they're releasing a piece that's important in the fight against fascism. |
| 179727 | Hayden Welch | Film Inquiry | Fresh | — | 2021-05-18T05:30:06Z | 2021-05-18 05:30:06 | Borat 2 takes the format that has been so engrained into comedy within the past few years and really embraces the notion that reality is stranger than fiction, with outrageous humor and sharp improvisation. |
| 179728 | John Lui | The Straits Times (Singapore) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-05-12T20:50:30Z | 2021-05-12 20:50:30 | Bakalova is a revelation, turning what might have been a cartoon into a fully realised character in a performance that has earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. |
| 179729 | A.S. Hamrah | The Baffler | Rotten | — | 2021-04-30T21:40:19Z | 2021-04-30 21:40:19 | Agitprop that doesn't convince, comedy that isn't very funny. |
| 179730 | Alexa Dalby | Dog and Wolf | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-04-30T16:10:17Z | 2021-04-30 16:10:17 | You know Borat. You know what to expect. This film will exceed your expectations. |
| 179731 | Witney Seibold | Critically Acclaimed Podcast | Fresh | — | 2021-04-22T19:50:22Z | 2021-04-22 19:50:22 | Borat is funnier - and more relevant - in 2020 than he was in 2006. There is, weirdly enough, far more warmth and humanity on display in this film exploring cruelty and xenophobia. |
| 179732 | Eddie Harrison | film-authority.com | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-03-04T17:40:09Z | 2021-03-04 17:40:09 | ...lazer focused on exposing the divided, race-baiting, intolerant canvas of today's America... |
| 179733 | Sarah Ward | Concrete Playground | Fresh | — | 2021-03-01T08:00:14Z | 2021-03-01 08:00:14 | The unflinching work of a star passionate about making a statement. |
| 179734 | Mark Meszoros | The News-Herald (Willoughby, OH) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2021-02-15T01:40:08Z | 2021-02-15 01:40:08 | All in all, if you judge Borat Subsequent Moviefilm on how well it accomplishes its brave, boundary-pushing brand of comedic entertainment, it's hard not to think of one of Borat's best-known catchphrases: 'Great success!' |
| 179735 | Alex Bentley | CultureMap | Fresh | — | 2021-02-05T17:50:27Z | 2021-02-05 17:50:27 | Sacha Baron Cohen still knows how to wring comedy out of almost any situation, making for another hilariously cringeworthy experience. |
| 179736 | Jennie Kermode | Eye for Film | Fresh | 3/5 | 2021-02-04T22:10:42Z | 2021-02-04 22:10:42 | Where it hits, there are genuine insights. Where it misses, it feels awkward and old fashioned, not quite astute enough for a world which now demands a good deal more of its comic performers. |
| 179737 | PJ Nabarro | Patrick Nabarro | Rotten | 2/5 | 2021-02-01T11:40:13Z | 2021-02-01 11:40:13 | Its political prescience can't obscure from the fact that Borat Subsequent Moviefilm just isn't very good or funny |
| 179738 | Robert Roten | Laramie Movie Scope | Fresh | B | 2021-01-31T22:50:30Z | 2021-01-31 22:50:30 | Over all, I did find myself laughing a lot at this film, and that is worth a lot in these trying times. Bakalova gives a marvelous performance in this film, and Cohen is fearless as the doltish, outrageous Borat. |
| 179739 | Richard Crouse | Richard Crouse | Fresh | 4/5 | 2021-01-29T19:10:39Z | 2021-01-29 19:10:39 | It's not often you can describe a comedy as nerve wracking but Borat Subsequent MovieFilm is that film. |
| 179740 | Leo Brady | AMovieGuy.com | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2021-01-29T06:00:37Z | 2021-01-29 06:00:37 | Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is a shocking success, answering a call at a time when audiences need to laugh. |
| 179741 | Kshitij Rawat | The Indian Express | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2021-01-29T03:30:21Z | 2021-01-29 03:30:21 | Borat: Subsequent Moviefilm is an audacious, brilliant sequel that is better than the original in every single way. It is more insightful, has more shock value, and it's considerably funnier. |
| 179742 | Candice McMillan | KOMO News (Seattle) | Rotten | — | 2021-01-28T03:30:06Z | 2021-01-28 03:30:06 | But also, shoulder shrug. Haven't we seen it all? It sure feels like it, which is why perhaps the gags feel less 'gotcha' and more, 'yeah we know'. |
| 179743 | Marlow Stern | The Daily Beast | Fresh | — | 2021-01-27T21:10:25Z | 2021-01-27 21:10:25 | No movie experience captured the unbridled insanity that was 2020 quite like Borat Subsequent Moviefilm... |
| 179744 | David Bax | Battleship Pretension | Fresh | — | 2021-01-17T19:50:15Z | 2021-01-17 19:50:15 | Cohen is an activist comedian, to be sure, but he does better when pulling things out of people than when pushing things onto them. |
| 179745 | Jennifer Heaton | Alternative Lens | Fresh | 8.5/10 | 2021-01-15T02:30:33Z | 2021-01-15 02:30:33 | ...This belated follow-up to the infamous 2006 mockumentary is perhaps the first comedy sequel that arguably surpasses its predecessor. |
| 179746 | Pete Vonder Haar | Houston Press | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2021-01-14T21:50:30Z | 2021-01-14 21:50:30 | Bakalova's inclusion is the real story here. She's as capable a performer as Baron Cohen and really does help push the movie past his usual satirical buffoonery. |
| 179747 | Matt Hudson | What I Watched Tonight | Rotten | 5/10 | 2020-12-31T01:20:35Z | 2020-12-31 01:20:35 | Sadly, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm doesn't hit with the same fire the original did all those years ago. |
| 179748 | Kent Garrison | Mad About Movies Podcast | Fresh | A- | 2020-12-26T16:30:15Z | 2020-12-26 16:30:15 | Baron Cohen really should get an honorary Oscar for what he's provided with Borat. Every single mannerism is 100% Borat and the real world is convinced there's nothing suspicious. That's acting. |
| 179749 | Jared Mobarak | Jaredmobarak.com | Rotten | 4/10 | 2020-12-23T15:30:09Z | 2020-12-23 15:30:09 | The world has been turned upside-down these past four years to the point where Trump's GOP faction's emboldened pride in hate speech has rendered Borat obsolete. |
| 179750 | Jeffrey Lyles | Lyles' Movie Files | Fresh | 9/10 | 2020-12-09T00:20:13Z | 2020-12-09 00:20:13 | Thanks to the real world insanity this was the ideal time for Borat's comeback. |
| 179751 | Al Alexander | The Patriot Ledger | Fresh | B+ | 2020-12-06T18:00:17Z | 2020-12-06 18:00:17 | Yes, this "Borat" is every bit as funny as the original -- possibly better -- but Cohen never lets you lose sight of the people and ideas his unique form of satire exposes for the blowhard frauds they are. |
| 179752 | David Sims | The Atlantic | Fresh | — | 2020-12-04T00:00:42Z | 2020-12-04 00:00:42 | Cohen seems to understand that the film's shock value is automatically lower because of how deadened audiences have grown to political satire, so he relies more heavily on sitcom jokes to compensate and largely succeeds. |
| 179753 | Ron Wilkinson | It's Just Movies | Fresh | 8/10 | 2020-11-30T02:00:20Z | 2020-11-30 02:00:20 | Doubling down on the original Borat, a mysterious co-star makes this a must see for Cohen lovers. |
| 179754 | Paul Salfen | AMFM Magazine | Fresh | — | 2020-11-25T19:00:36Z | 2020-11-25 19:00:36 | 7.5 It's shocking, funny, and somehow sad at the same time if absolutely any of this is real. |
| 179755 | Michael Ward | Should I See It | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-11-19T05:10:06Z | 2020-11-19 05:10:06 | ...when (Sacha Baron) Cohen hits, he does visceral damage. |
| 179756 | Matthew Passantino | Big Picture Big Sound | Rotten | 1.5/4 | 2020-11-18T20:10:11Z | 2020-11-18 20:10:11 | The slapdash construction of the movie causes it to crumble as it progresses over the course of a long 95 minutes because it never really has a novel idea, it just wants to coast on shock and timeliness. |
| 179757 | Robbie Collin | Daily Telegraph (UK) | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-11-18T14:00:26Z | 2020-11-18 14:00:26 | It's the opposite of what a Borat film should feel like: business as usual. |
| 179758 | Jon Negroni | The Young Folks | Fresh | 8/10 | 2020-11-16T17:10:15Z | 2020-11-16 17:10:15 | Considering what could have been a tiring retread desperate to relive the past, it's, ahem, very nice to see something far more earnest, creative, and comedically well-timed. |
| 179759 | Susan Granger | SSG Syndicate | Fresh | 6/10 | 2020-11-13T22:20:33Z | 2020-11-13 22:20:33 | Silly, satirical and subversive, it's guaranteed to offend almost everyone. |
| 179760 | Joshua Starnes | VitalThrills.com | Fresh | 6.5/10 | 2020-11-13T21:00:34Z | 2020-11-13 21:00:34 | It's probably impossible for Borat to return to the zeitgeist, it changes too much to quickly and this is too much unchanged from its previous incarnation. That doesn't make it bad. It just makes it (mostly) ordinary. |
| 179761 | Andy Lea | Daily Star (UK) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-11-13T11:20:09Z | 2020-11-13 11:20:09 | While nothing compares with the first film's naked wrestling scene, Kazakhstan's most famous son can still raise uncomfortable laughs. |
| 179762 | Clarisse Loughrey | Independent (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-11-12T00:10:18Z | 2020-11-12 00:10:18 | The risks that Baron Cohen took here - both artistic and personal - are admirable. And the pay-off is worth a lifetime of being subjected to the words "very nice!" |
| 179763 | Filipe Freitas | Always Good Movies | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-11-11T17:10:14Z | 2020-11-11 17:10:14 | ... often messy in its ludicrousness, but a trip worth taking... We never know what to expect next, and perverse laughter is inevitable. |
| 179764 | Stephen Romei | The Australian | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2020-11-10T21:00:34Z | 2020-11-10 21:00:34 | Bakalova is terrific in her first film made outside Bulgaria...[she] adds some much-needed emotional depth to what is otherwise a movie that isn't as funny or as revealing as it thinks it is. |
| 179765 | Devesh Sharma | Filmfare | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-11-10T20:50:30Z | 2020-11-10 20:50:30 | All-in-all, while the sequel might not have the bite and the wildness of the first film, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm retains enough of the madcap humour to keep us laughing throughout. |
| 179766 | Steve Murray | ArtsATL | Fresh | — | 2020-11-10T20:39:40Z | 2020-11-10 20:39:40 | ...if the gags are not quite as sharp, the movie's COVID-19 narrative delivers a sneaky, cumulative punchline. |
| 179767 | Joe Friar | The Victoria Advocate | Fresh | 3/4 | 2020-11-10T17:45:37Z | 2020-11-10 17:45:37 | The shock value may have worn off, but Baron Cohen's cringe-watching satire is stronger than ever. |
| 179768 | Ray Pride | Newcity | Fresh | 7/10 | 2020-11-10T07:10:09Z | 2020-11-10 07:10:09 | It's not hard to imagine what a packed theatrical audience would have made of those moments, the way "Borat" sucked the oxygen out of theaters fourteen years ago, propriety be damned, couth ripped asunder. |
| 179769 | Eileen Jones | The Jacobin | Rotten | — | 2020-11-07T00:12:28Z | 2020-11-07 00:12:28 | Amazon's Borat sequel tries to replay the zany laughs of the original but picks easy moralizing over funny social satire. |
| 179770 | Eric Vilas-Boas | Observer | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2020-11-06T20:50:08Z | 2020-11-06 20:50:08 | Underneath it all it's got an empathy and an urgency the first Borat seemed to lack, thanks to its focus and the family at its center. That's very nice. |
| 179771 | Dan Buffa | KSDK News (St. Louis) | Fresh | — | 2020-11-06T00:20:21Z | 2020-11-06 00:20:21 | I stayed and laughed considerably. That doesn't mean I am going back for seconds. One serving of Cohen's Borat is best for the funny bone. Comedy delicacies usually are. |
| 179772 | Tim Brennan | About Boulder | Fresh | — | 2020-11-05T16:10:08Z | 2020-11-05 16:10:08 | Like the first film, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm doesn't just push the boundaries of good taste, it shreds them with a chainsaw. |
| 179773 | Jorge Iván Morales | Cine Premiere | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-11-05T03:50:12Z | 2020-11-05 03:50:12 | Borat has documented a time in which reason, logic, and empathy seem to be on the verge of extinction. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| 179774 | Martha K. Baker | KDHX (St. Louis) | Fresh | — | 2020-11-04T17:10:10Z | 2020-11-04 17:10:10 | His satire stands on the shoulders of Jonathan Swift, the 17th-century Irishman, who knew a modest proposal when he wrote one. Baron Cohen has written another. And it bites immodestly. |
| 179775 | Matthew Dougherty | The Filtered Lens | Fresh | A- | 2020-11-02T23:00:07Z | 2020-11-02 23:00:07 | The sequel doesn't just repeat its predecessor's gimmicks for a new era, it builds off of them to create a new kind of movie magic, one that that catches important bigots and liars in the act, with their pants down. |
| 179776 | Sol Harris | Starburst | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-11-02T16:50:04Z | 2020-11-02 16:50:04 | It's just about the best Borat sequel that we could have hoped for - and that's in a world where it existing at all is an admirable feat. |
| 179777 | Kiko Martinez | San Antonio Current | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-10-31T04:02:01Z | 2020-10-31 04:02:01 | The sequel may not have as many laughs and will not deliver the same cultural impact as its predecessor, but [Sacha Baron] Cohen has turned his brand of tomfoolery into an artform. |
| 179778 | Brandon Avery | Just My Opinion Reviews | Fresh | 8/10 | 2020-10-31T00:42:43Z | 2020-10-31 00:42:43 | Wasn't as funny as the first installment, but still laugh out loud fun! |
| 179779 | Martin Thomas | Double Toasted | Fresh | — | 2020-10-30T23:09:53Z | 2020-10-30 23:09:53 | The question now is what can he possibly do for the third one? |
| 179780 | Korey Coleman | Double Toasted | Fresh | — | 2020-10-30T23:00:30Z | 2020-10-30 23:00:30 | The ending is just brilliant... |
| 179781 | Mark Kermode | Kermode & Mayo's Film Review | Fresh | — | 2020-10-30T22:50:23Z | 2020-10-30 22:50:23 | It has a particular political punch...Not as funny as it should have been, but there are some very good moments in it. |
| 179782 | Jonathan Roberts | The New Paper (Singapore) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-10-30T22:30:28Z | 2020-10-30 22:30:28 | [An] excellent and fearless Maria Bakalova. |
| 179783 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Fresh | B | 2020-10-30T22:00:12Z | 2020-10-30 22:00:12 | Your reaction to this politically motivated mockumentary will most likely depend a lot on whether you're partial to either the blue or red states. |
| 179784 | Edwin Arnaudin | Asheville Movies | Fresh | A- | 2020-10-30T19:30:00Z | 2020-10-30 19:30:00 | Cohen cements his status as cinema's greatest comic actor since Peter Sellers. |
| 179785 | Austin Burke | Austin Burke/Flick Fan Nation | Fresh | 7/10 | 2020-10-30T19:09:52Z | 2020-10-30 19:09:52 | While not as fresh as the first, this Borat sequel delivers on laughs and game-changing moments. |
| 179786 | Ryan Syrek | The Reader (Omaha, NE) | Fresh | B | 2020-10-30T18:10:21Z | 2020-10-30 18:10:21 | Subsequent Moviefilm is overlong but otherwise hits nearly every target at which it aims. It often Robin-Hoods itself, splitting a bulls-eyed observational arrow in half with an even bigger reveal just a moment later. |
| 179787 | Dan Lybarger | Arkansas Democrat-Gazette | Fresh | 82/100 | 2020-10-30T17:30:15Z | 2020-10-30 17:30:15 | Baron Cohen seems to have developed a heart, and the new film is better for it. |
| 179788 | Mattie Lucas | From the Front Row | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2020-10-30T16:20:10Z | 2020-10-30 16:20:10 | Not only is it deeply funny, it's also disarmingly moving - a damning yet hopeful portrait of America in 2020 that leaves us feeling that maybe, just maybe, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. |
| 179789 | Lauren Veneziani | WBAL-TV (Baltimore) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-10-30T15:20:10Z | 2020-10-30 15:20:10 | The dance scene with Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova is one of the funniest movie scenes I've ever seen. |
| 179790 | Leah Greenblatt | Entertainment Weekly | Fresh | A- | 2020-10-30T10:40:11Z | 2020-10-30 10:40:11 | Into possibly the least hilarious year on record, he has come: not the Borat we deserve, maybe, but the one we need right now. |
| 179791 | Hannah Brown | Jerusalem Post | Fresh | — | 2020-10-30T00:00:13Z | 2020-10-30 00:00:13 | Yes, it's in incredibly bad taste, and if some of it doesn't offend you, you're probably a robot. But most of it is really funny and outrageous and - no spoilers - it offers an interesting explanation of the origins of the coronavirus. |
| 179792 | Bennett Campbell Ferguson | Willamette Week | Fresh | 4/4 | 2020-10-29T21:30:12Z | 2020-10-29 21:30:12 | Angrier, funnier and smarter than the original. |
| 179793 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-10-29T21:20:13Z | 2020-10-29 21:20:13 | Sacha Baron Cohen is back for a close-to-the-bone sequel that's more of a scripted comedy than before, but it's still peppered with moments of topical pointed documentary mayhem. |
| 179794 | Eleanor Ringel Cater | Saporta Report (Atlanta) | Fresh | — | 2020-10-29T21:20:11Z | 2020-10-29 21:20:11 | Borat 2 is one of the few bright spots of 2020. One of the brightest, actually. I can't wait to watch it again. |
| 179795 | Alif Majeed | Battle Royale With Cheese | Fresh | — | 2020-10-29T17:40:14Z | 2020-10-29 17:40:14 | What you get is a pretty funny movie, which was also a beautiful tale of a father and daughter's journey across America. |
| 179796 | John McDonald | Australian Financial Review | Fresh | — | 2020-10-29T06:30:06Z | 2020-10-29 06:30:06 | Borat's abiding joke is that the United States, for all its wealth and power, is no less of a hillbilly haven, no less a bottomless sink of corruption, superstition and stupidity than the imaginary and much-maligned Kazakhstan. |
| 179797 | Alistair Harkness | Scotsman | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-10-28T23:10:23Z | 2020-10-28 23:10:23 | [T]he film itself remains a valuable and at times very funny take-down of the willful ignorance and intolerance coursing through all levels of American society. |
| 179798 | Brad Newsome | Sydney Morning Herald | Rotten | — | 2020-10-28T20:20:18Z | 2020-10-28 20:20:18 | A feature-length exercise in gratuitous insult and unpleasantness, it illuminates almost nothing about America that we don't already see in mainstream and social media every day. |
| 179799 | Margot Harrison | Seven Days (VT) | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2020-10-28T17:00:10Z | 2020-10-28 17:00:10 | While Borat Subsequent Moviefilm is no earth-shaking satire, it features some inspired comedy. |
| 179800 | Patrick McDonald | HollywoodChicago.com | Fresh | 4.5/5 | 2020-10-28T11:20:18Z | 2020-10-28 11:20:18 | Amazing performance art, with an added jaw-dropping exposure of corruption. But Borat's theme is the film's key, and how he & his daughter can learn lessons with the rest of us. |
| 179801 | Brian Costello | Common Sense Media | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-10-28T04:10:04Z | 2020-10-28 04:10:04 | Crass sexual content throughout brilliant, timely satire. |
| 179802 | Yasser Medina | Cinefilia | Fresh | 7/10 | 2020-10-27T22:50:13Z | 2020-10-27 22:50:13 | A sequel that to a certain extent is just as funny and irreverent as the predecessor and that is never afraid of daring to break with social taboos to underline the political decline of a nation. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 179803 | Robin Clifford | Reeling Reviews | Fresh | B | 2020-10-27T20:30:22Z | 2020-10-27 20:30:22 | we get more of the old stuff, but some very new and different gags, too....Nice. |
| 179804 | Philip De Semlyen | Time Out | Rotten | 2/5 | 2020-10-27T18:40:20Z | 2020-10-27 18:40:20 | Borat is hardly Borat anymore. |
| 179805 | Gayle Sequeira | Film Companion | Fresh | — | 2020-10-27T17:40:20Z | 2020-10-27 17:40:20 | The decision to give Borat a sidekick he can riff off is a smart one, even though some of the more emotional moments between them cause the film to sag. |
| 179806 | Emmanuel Báez | Cinéfiloz | Fresh | — | 2020-10-27T17:10:19Z | 2020-10-27 17:10:19 | A sharp and incredible sociopolitical satire that leaves numerous victims in its path. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 179807 | Pablo O. Scholz | Clarín | Fresh | — | 2020-10-27T16:50:17Z | 2020-10-27 16:50:17 | It's very funny and uncomfortable, but for these pressing times... - one would even say that it's necessary. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 179808 | Dulcie Pearce | The Sun (UK) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-10-27T14:20:14Z | 2020-10-27 14:20:14 | While the Democrats and liberal American's will like this a lot more than a British audience, it's still a 'high five' from me. |
| 179809 | Alan Corr | RTÉ (Ireland) | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-10-27T14:20:13Z | 2020-10-27 14:20:13 | You'll be glad Borat is back. |
| 179810 | Jack Bottomley | Starburst | Fresh | 5/5 | 2020-10-26T21:50:40Z | 2020-10-26 21:50:40 | A satirical masterwork, which grafts the real life madness and shock of the world, with a narrative of warmth, depth and wit, creating a rib-tickling tour de force, that must be called one of the greatest comedy sequels ever made. |
| 179811 | Stephen Silver | Splice Today | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-10-26T21:10:41Z | 2020-10-26 21:10:41 | A very funny film that impressively updates the Borat M.O. for the world of 2020. |
| 179812 | Melanie McFarland | Salon.com | Fresh | — | 2020-10-26T20:40:30Z | 2020-10-26 20:40:30 | It is enormously entertaining and for the reasons listed above a healthy treatment to whatever anxieties plaguing us a little more than a week leading up to the election. Whatever faults it has aren't deadly. |
| 179813 | Allen Adams | The Maine Edge | Fresh | 4/5 | 2020-10-26T20:00:21Z | 2020-10-26 20:00:21 | Cohen holds up a mirror to American culture, but the warped reflection we see is simply an accurate depiction of who and what we are in this moment. It's not a funhouse mirror, folks. We're the funhouse. |
| 179814 | Rob Gonsalves | Rob's Movie Vault | Fresh | A- | 2020-10-26T17:10:10Z | 2020-10-26 17:10:10 | The daughter, Tutar, is very much the movie's saving throw, and the 24-year-old Bulgarian actress who plays her, Maria Bakalova, swipes the movie right out from under Baron Cohen's thick mustache. |
| 179815 | Ruben Peralta Rigaud | Cocalecas | Fresh | — | 2020-10-26T16:30:11Z | 2020-10-26 16:30:11 | Once again uses satire to bring us face to face with some painful truths about ourselves and the people around us, while managing to make us laugh until it hurts. [Full review in Spanish] |
| 179816 | Jamie Dunn | The Skinny | Fresh | 3/5 | 2020-10-26T13:20:09Z | 2020-10-26 13:20:09 | The abuse and subjugation of women emerges as the movie's major theme, so it's appropriate that Maria Bakalova as Tutar is given as much opportunity to shine as Borat himself. |
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