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Part satire, part shockumentary,Borat gets high-fives almost all-around for being offensive in the funniest possible way. Jagshemash!
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The backlash just proves how deep a nerve the faux Kazakh journalist has hit. Nov 1, 2007 | Full Review…
The backlash just proves how deep a nerve the faux Kazakh journalist has hit.
David Ansen
Borat is a serious work of social criticism. But it's also the funniest movie I've ever seen. Nov 22, 2006 | Rating: A
Borat is a serious work of social criticism. But it's also the funniest movie I've ever seen.
Joe Williams
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. Nov 15, 2006
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.
Andrew Sarris
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. Nov 13, 2006
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.
Richard Roeper
Borat is so gut-bustingly funny it should carry a health warning. Nov 4, 2006 | Full Review…
Borat is so gut-bustingly funny it should carry a health warning.
Tom Charity
Cohen's genius lies in combining the chameleon-like virtuosity of Peter Sellers with the balls-out fearlessness of the Jackass crew. Nov 3, 2006 | Rating: B+ | Full Review…
Cohen's genius lies in combining the chameleon-like virtuosity of Peter Sellers with the balls-out fearlessness of the Jackass crew.
Nathan Rabin
A gut-busting, uncompromising, totally outrageous film that takes the comedy of embarrassment to new, unprecedented levels. Jun 5, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A gut-busting, uncompromising, totally outrageous film that takes the comedy of embarrassment to new, unprecedented levels.
Matthew Lucas
Offensive? Yes, but I haven't laughed this hard since the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy. Jan 4, 2018 | Rating: A | Full Review…
Offensive? Yes, but I haven't laughed this hard since the Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy.
Joel Siegel
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. Jun 8, 2016 | Full Review…
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.
Nick Pinkerton
Borat... is a not only a very good comedy but is also an interesting sociological experiment as to how numerous individuals in the USA would respond to a man such as Borat, and often the reactions are interesting and vastly entertaining. Jul 6, 2010 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Borat... is a not only a very good comedy but is also an interesting sociological experiment as to how numerous individuals in the USA would respond to a man such as Borat, and often the reactions are interesting and vastly entertaining.
Matthew Pejkovic
Frequently uproarious and occasionally side-splitting -- but it's very hit-or-miss, prone to stretches of unnecessary crudeness and flat one-liners. Sep 19, 2009 | Rating: 65/100 | Full Review…
Frequently uproarious and occasionally side-splitting -- but it's very hit-or-miss, prone to stretches of unnecessary crudeness and flat one-liners.
Gabe Leibowitz
Often functions hilariously as an exposé of squirming American tolerance shading into condescension toward the rest of the world Aug 28, 2009 | Full Review…
Often functions hilariously as an exposé of squirming American tolerance shading into condescension toward the rest of the world
Fernando F. Croce
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