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The Dictator


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The Christian Sciene Monitor
He can be one of the funniest people on the planet, but he needs a real dictator – I mean, director – calling the shots.
Richard Roeper
Of course it's offensive and tasteless. That's the point. Sometimes the jokes are excruciatingly funny.
Washington Post
Never achieves the stinging parodic heights of Cohen's Borat movie, but manages a better batting average than his most recen...
New York Daily News
The easily offended will be appalled. The rarely offended may be appalled. But they'll have to stop laughing long enough to ...
The New York Times
Potential is mostly squandered in The Dictator, which gestures halfheartedly toward topicality and, with equal lack of convi...
San Francisco Chronicle
This isn't the last word on cinematic send-ups of totalitarianism -- for that, we still have Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dic...
Los Angeles Times
By turns hysterical, heretical, guilty, innocent, silly, sophisticated, teasing and tedious.
USA Today
While tastelessness is rampant and the humor uneven, The Dictator also has its moments of slyly clever satire.
Salon Arts
Although the character of Aladeen seems awfully predictable by Baron Cohen standards, the movie itself veers from one hilari...
New York Post
It ends up being a lot less hilarious than "Borat,'' and not quite as funny as "Bruno.''
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Directed by Cohen's longtime collaborator Larry Charles, The Dictator mixes its high and low comedy with surprising success.
Rolling Stone
The Dictator starts at outrageous and rockets on from there. Screw the occasional sputter.
Slate
Most of The Dictator had me neither laughing nor shocked, but just staring at the screen in anxious is-that-all-there-is? si...
Wall Street Journal
Now Cohen is turning material both fresh and rancid into tepid gruel.
The New Yorker
The film has a vicious edge that the Marx Brothers didn't have, and it's too low-minded to achieve their enchanting blend of...
Chicago Sun-Times
"The Dictator" is funny, in addition to being obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar, crude and so on.
Film School Rejects
Cohen’s comedy works just as well if not better in service of a traditional narrative. Jason Mantzoukas is great, but the be...
Entertainment Weekly
General Admiral Haffaz Aladeen — the latest outsize specimen of male self-delusion created by Sacha Baron Cohen — has been a...
E! Online
After months of Sacha Baron Cohen showing up as the character he plays in The Dictator—even ash-bombing Ryan Seacrest on the...
ReelViews
One of the cleverest moments in Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator comes during the first five seconds: a memorial dedication ...
Hollywood Reporter
Better than Bruno, not as audacious as Borat.
Total Film
Outrageous, outlandish and overboard, The Dictator will satisfy Cohen's army of fans. But it never feels as funny, full-on o...
Chicago Tribune
'The Dictator' quality falls between 'Borat' and 'Bruno'
Black Sheep Reviews
I don't know what this says about me but I was having such a good time, I didn't want it to end.
Film Fracture
The Dictator is gloriously offensive.

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Partial Film Information

Director: Larry Charles
Writer: Sacha Baron Cohen
Studio: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley

Release: May 11, 2012
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