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

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



Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Also known as: Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Borat

171 Reviews total.

Release date: 11/3/2006
Run length: 82 mins.
Categories: Comedy , Adaptation

Summary: Borat Sagdiyev, Kazakhstan's sixth most famous man and a leading journalist from the State run TV network, travels from his home in Kazakhstan to the U.S. to make a documentary. On his cross-country road-trip, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences.

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

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Kamal 'The Diva' Larsuel of 3BlackChicks Review (8/0)
            I may never recover, but it's worth seeing. Just leave your sensibilities at home. .

By
Kevin Carr of 7M Pictures (8/0)
            [I am] so tired of people being offended by the littlest thing that a seemingly crazy man in a di...

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Jurgen Fauth of About.com (8/0)
            Nothing's safe from Cohen's sophisticated satire, disguised as backwater idiocy.

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Rebecca Murray of About.com (8/0)
            It's fearless and disgusting and hilarious - high five!

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John Wirt of Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) (8/0)
            Maybe most funny movie-film you see in your lifes.

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Mike McGranaghan of Aisle Seat (8/0)
            Borat is a full-throttle comedy experience. You don't just laugh at it - you howl, often...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Phil Villarreal of Arizona Daily Star (8/0)
            "Borat" movie no-stop laughy. Is funny as your Donald Mouse cartoons, and goodest comedy of year.

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Philip Martin of Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (8/0)
            ... contrary to what the cynical profess, it is possible to cheat an honest man. It's certainly e...

By
Christy Lemire of Associated Press (8/0)
            It's consistently double-over-laughing hilarious, never an easy feat when you're extending a come...

By
Bob Townsend of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8/0)
            Hilarious, and purposefully offensive.

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Bob Townsend of Atlanta Journal-Constitution (8/0)
            Cohen never gives a sucker an even break in this rude, riotous mockumentary.

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Lori Hoffman of Atlantic City Weekly (8/0)
            ... the male-oriented humor in this movie goes right in the toilet, literally, and never recovers...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Marc Savlov of Austin Chronicle (8/0)
            In between Borat's arrival in New York City and the end of his epic quest are some of the most fe...

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Paul Arendt of BBC (8/0)
            Reviewer is disappointed!

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Alan Dale of Blogcritics.org (8/0)
            It's theatrical genius: Cohen has devised a split-level act in which being hooked off the stage b...

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Ty Burr of Boston Globe (8/0)
            ...by a long shot the funniest film of the year.

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Fred Topel of Can Magazine (8/0)
            A relentless comedy extravaganza. He milks existing situations for the maximum comedy potential a...

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Rob Thomas of Capital Times (Madison, WI) (8/0)
            "Borat" not only satirizes American narrow-mindedness but also American broad-mindedness, our eag...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Sean O'Connell of Charlotte Weekly (8/0)
            Has huge laughs.

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Jim Emerson of Chicago Sun-Times (8/0)
            ...shrewd and discerning about choosing its targets.

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Michael Phillips of Chicago Tribune (8/0)
            As the man from Kazakhstan likes to say: Great success!

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Peter Rainer of Christian Science Monitor (8/0)
            Borat is the funniest comedy I've seen since I don't know when.

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Joshua Tyler of CinemaBlend.com (8/0)
            Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius, and his new film is a comedic masterpiece.

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Jeff Otto of cinemaobsession.com (8/0)
            Borat is the funniest film of the year. The only ones not laughing are the ones the joke was on i...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Mark Palermo of Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) (8/0)
            Cohen stages his gags with a fearlessness where viewer-discomfort is part of the thrill.

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Cole Smithey of ColeSmithey.com (8/0)
            [Baron] Cohen melds the pranking of "Jackass," the punking of "Punk'd," the satire of Matt Stone ...

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Jeffrey M. Anderson of Combustible Celluloid (8/0)
            The more I considered Borat, the better and funnier it grew.

By
Edward Douglas of ComingSoon.net (8/0)
            It's sad that anyone can claim brilliance to this unoriginal one-joke character.

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Matt Brunson of Creative Loafing (8/0)
            Borat is often convulsively, savagely funny, but beneath the scatology and mockery rests a knowin...

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David Edwards of Daily Mirror [UK] (8/0)
            The funniest thing I’ve ever seen in my life.

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Bill Gibron of DVD Verdict (8/0)
            This is not to say that the movie is a bomb. In fact, (Borat)'s one of 2006's most light-hearted ...

By
Dawn Taylor of DVDJournal.com (8/0)
            Cohen uses his characters to point out our sacred cows, whatever they may be, and then shoot them...

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Dezhda Mountz of E! Online (8/0)
            Cohen has updated the art of racial satire for a new, troubled world, and Borat is its king.

By
Dezhda Mountz of E! Online (8/0)
            Cohen has updated the art of racial satire for a new, troubled world, and Borat is its king.

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Brian Orndorf of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
            Borat is an obscenely terrific comedic treasure of a film, and it furthers Cohen's agenda to reve...

By
Collin Souter of eFilmCritic.com (7/1)
            Like the orginal Airplane! or an early Mel Brooks film, it's destined to be quoted, revisited and...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Dan Lybarger of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
            With its frequently astute social observations, "Borat" effortlessly uses bad taste for a good ca...

By
David Cornelius of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
            Cohen's mix of ineptitude and laziness propels this to become one of the worst comedies in recent...

By
Erik Childress of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
            Don't count out Borat to be above more straightforward practicality or participating in the most ...

By
Scott Weinberg of eFilmCritic.com (8/0)
            One of the funniest movies ever made. Yes, ever.

By
Emanuel Levy of EmanuelLevy.Com (8/0)
            At 82 minutes, Borat is one of the briefest and goofiest comedies around, with barbs to offend ju...

By
Dan Jolin of Empire Magazine (8/0)
            Absurd, outrageous, gross, disturbing, insightful, and so funny it’ll burst half the blood vessel...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly (8/0)
            ...it's no reduction of Borat to say that the whole movie is a kind of slapstick psycho-polit...

By
Eric D. Snider of EricDSnider.com (8/0)
            It's scathing satire, audacious, ridiculous and screamingly riotous -- but it's not mean-spirited...

By
Eugene Novikov of Film Blather (8/0)
            I laughed a great deal, but I cringed almost as much -- and as a result, Borat and I may never be...

By
Walter Chaw of Film Freak Central (8/0)
            We might be stuck in the quagmire in which we're stuck because the best intended were too deadene...

By
Lewis Beale of Film Journal International (8/0)
            After a while, the gaggle of idiots, creeps and stuffed shirts Borat comes in contact with become...

By
Pete Vonder Haar of Film Threat (8/0)
            Cohen has created an instant classic

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Chris Cabin of filmcritic.com (8/0)
            Cohen is a one-man-army of prodding laughs and ingenious performance art

By
Chris Cabin of filmcritic.com (8/0)
            ...Cohen is a one-man-army of prodding laughs and ingenious performance art.

By
Victoria Alexander of FilmsInReview.com (7/1)
            Evil comedy, a new genre, has arrived. The bar has been raised and is flying over everyone’s head...

By
MaryAnn Johanson of Flick Filosopher (8/0)
            Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius. A crazy genius, maybe, a man who takes dedication to his art to a ...

By
Bill Clark of FromTheBalcony (8/0)
            Truly smart comedy is hard to come by these days, but Cohen has delivered a simultaneously uproar...

By
Eric Lurio of Greenwich Village Gazette (8/0)
            The guiltiest pleasure of the year!

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Peter Canavese of Groucho Reviews (8/0)
            No film in the history of cinema has succeeded in being more 'outrageously funny'...

By
Jason Solomons of Guardian [UK] (8/0)
            The more I think about the film, the less amusing it becomes.

By
Ross Anthony of Hollywood Report Card (8/0)
            1) See the movie and laugh. 2) Go out and do something very sweet for someone you don't even know...

By
Kirk Honeycutt of Hollywood Reporter (8/0)
            For once it's true: Borat has to be seen to be believed.

By
Gary Brown of Houston Community Newspapers (8/0)
            Riotously funny.

By
Filip Vukcevic of IGN Movies (8/0)
            Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is one of the...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Steve Rhodes of Internet Reviews (8/0)
            You will certainly laugh a whole lot, but will you still respect yourself in the morning? Maybe....

By
Jim Slotek of Jam! Movies (8/0)
            A feverishly-imagined bastard child of so many streams of comedy, it becomes an utterly new exper...

By
JoBlo of JoBlo's Movie Emporium (8/0)
            An extremely funny yet offensive movie...

By
David Kaplan of Kaplan vs. Kaplan (7/1)
            Cohen's comic genius is remarkable because most of what he does is improvisation.

By
Jeanne Kaplan of Kaplan vs. Kaplan (8/0)
            Most of this film is designed to entertain tall 6-year-olds, my darling husband included. He laug...

By
Andrea Chase of Killer Movie Reviews (8/0)
            The most important thing to know about BORAT is that you will be appalled by what you see, and th...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Scott Foundas of L.A. Weekly (8/0)
            Crash -- to say nothing of Michael Moore -- has nothing on this.

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Robert Roten of Laramie Movie Scope (8/0)
            It is more than just a silly comedy. Like a social science documentary, it also reveals the racis...

By
Carol Cling of Las Vegas Review-Journal (8/0)
            Americans emerge as the target of Borat's most scathing observations. Chances are, however, you'l...

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Andy Klein of Los Angeles CityBeat (8/0)
            ...one of the funniest films in years and surely the most laugh-provoking.

By
Glenn Whipp of Los Angeles Daily News (8/0)
            To paraphrase the movie's title, Borat make benefit glorious for everyone -- provided you like yo...

By
Kenneth Turan of Los Angeles Times (8/0)
            You will laugh at Borat, you really will, but the laughter will sometimes stick in your throat.

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Luke Y. Thompson of LYTRules.com (8/0)
            It has great moments, but the scripted aspect of the story, which has Borat travelling cross coun...

By
Mark Dujsik of Mark Reviews Movies (8/0)
            This is not only the best comedy of the year; it may well be the best comedy in a decade. Hell, ...

By
Pete Hammond of Maxim (8/0)
            Thank you Kazakhstan for giving the world a pure comedic genius.

By
Randy Shulman of Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) (8/0)
            Borat [blends] the mockumentary form with...an extreme, fearless level of performance art, creati...

By
Matt Pais of Metromix.com (8/0)
            Borat is an ingenious character--a prism through which the world's ignorance is able to shine--an...

By
Paul Doro of Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/0)
            Borat is easily the funniest movie of the year.

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Kevin N. Laforest of Montreal Film Journal (8/0)
            A joke is never funny when you have to explain it. Either you get why Borat is hilarious or you d...

By
Ken Hanke of Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (8/0)
            A surprisingly successful (most of the time) elaboration on a fairly simple sketch idea -- one th...

By
Ted Murphy of Murphy's Movie Reviews (8/0)
            To my mind, BORAT may have worked better on the small screen and in smaller amounts. At only 8...

By
Stuart Klawans of Nation (8/0)
            Borat is the movie of the year, the picture that makes all other films irrelevant.

By
Andrew Sarris of New York Observer (5/3)
            The theory of comedy here is that you can get away with almost anything if you manage to make you...

By
Manohla Dargis of New York Times (8/0)
            The brilliance of Borat is that its comedy is as pitiless as its social satire, and as brainy...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Gene Seymour of Newsday (8/0)
            Paraphrasing Kurt Vonnegut, there are few things more quintessentially American than embarrassmen...

By
Michael A. Smith of Nolan's Pop Culture Review (8/0)
            That Cohen never breaks character, no matter the situation, is a true testament to his comic geni...

By
Jim Chastain of Norman Transcript (8/0)
            Great satire, perhaps, but remarkably painful.

By
Jeffrey Westhoff of Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) (8/0)
            A cinematic stunt that works occasionally, but not often enough.

By
Frank Swietek of One Guy's Opinion (8/0)
            Hold the hyperbole...isn't a work of genius, just a cable comedy sketch with some sharply funny b...

By
Nathan Rabin of Onion AV Club (8/0)
            Cohen's genius lies in combining the chameleon-like virtuosity of Peter Sellers with the balls-ou...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Roger Moore of Orlando Sentinel (8/0)
            Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan is as fearles...

By
Jason Ferguson of Orlando Weekly (8/0)
            Face it, Borat is the funniest movie ever made.

By
Dennis Schwartz of Ozus' World Movie Reviews (8/0)
            An outrageously crude slapstick comedy that is by the way heady and politically aware.

By
Jeanne Aufmuth of Palo Alto Weekly (8/0)
            Plucky, uproarious and totally uncompromising.

By
Jay Antani of Perihelion Journal (8/0)
            In spots, the movie can be hysterical. But, for the most part, its appeal is not unlike that of a...

By
Sean Burns of Philadelphia Weekly (8/0)
            ...a fall-on-your-face, pee-in-your-pants screaming riot of wild racism, leering sexism and all-a...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Jon Popick of Planet Sick-Boy (8/0)
            There are a lot of blue state folks who are offended by Cohen's portrayal of Kazakhstan as a back...

By
Cynthia Fuchs of PopMatters (8/0)
            Like Borat, Luenelle's a joke as well as a means to target others. But unlike Borat, she doesn't ...

By
Jessica Letkemann of Premiere Magazine (8/0)
            Any movie that lists someone with the job of 'feces provider' in the credits is either going to b...

By
Linda Cook of Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) (8/0)
            Bigots can be hilarious.

By
David N. Butterworth of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
            Very nice. Happy times. Great success.

By
Louis Proyect of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
            Not as good as the HBO show. Dumbed down by Larry Charles?

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Mark R. Leeper of rec.arts.movies.reviews (8/0)
            Dreadful hardly seems to cover this film. BORAT is a barrage of is one stupid vulgarity after ...

By
David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews (8/0)
            ...hit-and-miss...

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Pam Grady of Reel.com (8/0)
            [Cohen] combines the chameleon-like talent of Peter Sellers and the obsessive conviction of Andy ...

By
Laura Clifford of Reeling Reviews (8/0)
            ...Sacha Baron Cohen clearly has the biggest comedic cojones in the industry today and his movie ...

By
Jeffrey Chen of ReelTalk Movie Reviews (8/0)
            Borat makes it hip for the hipsters to mock prejudice.

By
James Berardinelli of ReelViews (8/0)
            One of the reasons Borat works is because it doesn't belabor its jokes.

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Leo Goldsmith of Reverse Shot (8/0)
            A force of political provocation less on the level of the cuddly Archie Bunker and more on that o...

By
Jim Emerson of RogerEbert.com (7/1)
            Very nice! I like Borat very much.

By
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone (8/0)
            Borat will make you laugh till it hurts, and you'll still beg for more.

By
Jim Lane of Sacramento News & Review (8/0)
            Cohen will do anything for a laugh, and he gets quite a few.

By
Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com (8/0)
            Borat is an astonishingly entertaining picture, and it's a testament to Cohen's gifts that he can...

By
Sean Means of Salt Lake Tribune (8/0)
            Cohen takes a fearless trip through America's midsection and its psyche.

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Jean Lowerison of San Diego Metropolitan (8/0)
            The whole film is silly, but strangely enough, crude as many of the jokes are, I haven't laughed ...

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David Elliott of San Diego Union-Tribune (8/0)
            With our help, Borat can move the United States above Kazakhstan on the U.N. laff meter.

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Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle (8/0)
            ...it's screamingly, hysterically, laugh-through-the-next-joke, laugh-for-the-next-week funny.

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Eric Melin of Scene-Stealers.com (8/0)
            The fact that this mercilessly funny film is based in reality makes a bigger statement about who ...

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Gina Carbone of Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (8/0)
            As hard as I laughed watching Borat and Azamat's naked, hairy man-on-man fight over a Baywatch ma...

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Sean McBride of Sean the Movie Guy (8/0)
            very brash, funny stuff that would make Andy Kaufman quite proud.

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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William Arnold of Seattle Post-Intelligencer (8/0)
            It's offensively funny in places but it can't sustain itself for a feature length running time an...

By
Moira MacDonald of Seattle Times (8/0)
            The cheerfully tasteless Borat is often screamingly funny and almost never dull, and that's more ...

By
Rich Cline of Shadows on the Wall (8/0)
            While this film will indeed insult almost everyone, it's also genuinely hilarious.

By
Ed Gonzalez of Slant Magazine (8/0)
            Borat's cultural learning is revealing, even if it doesn't adequately convey how it benefits glor...

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Nick Schager of Slant Magazine (8/0)
            What makes Borat a riot isn't its socio-analytical acuteness, but rather Cohen's gift for establi...

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Dana Stevens of Slate (4/4)
            Its best jokes approach some savage, atavistic core of cultural taboo and make the viewer wonder:...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Phoebe Flowers of South Florida Sun-Sentinel (8/0)
            For the viewer with the appropriately inappropriate sense of humor, Borat -- despite being an und...

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Joe Williams of St. Louis Post-Dispatch (8/0)
            Borat is a serious work of social criticism. But it's also the funniest movie I've ever seen.

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Nick Rogers of State Journal-Register (Springfield, IL) (8/0)
            Bigotry never will go away. So when its temporary takedown is as savagely witty and wise as Sacha...

By
John Venable of Supercala.com (8/0)
            The film might as well be entitled Retarded America, but lumping these idiots in with our mentall...

By
Dustin Putman of TheMovieBoy.com (8/0)
            A comedic masterpiece and possibly the funniest movie in years.

By
Scott Nash of Three Movie Buffs (8/0)
            Doesn't live up to the praise that has been heaped upon it, but it's amusing enough.

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Tony Medley of tonymedley.com (8/0)
            Another anti-intellectual attempt at comedy with jokes that concentrate on male nudity, stupid in...

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Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide's Movie Guide (8/0)
            It's a fearless performance and yields some squirm-inducingly funny moments.

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Brian Tallerico of UnderGround Online (8/0)
            The genius of Borat is all in Sacha Baron Cohen's daring, edgy, unrestrained performance.

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Urban Cinefile Critics of Urban Cinefile (8/0)
            A film that ignites the baser passions, satisfies the lowest common denominator and makes sure th...

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Enrique Buchichio of Uruguay Total (8/0)
            Un falso documental bastante transgresor e irregular que desafía lo políticamente correcto. Su ma...

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Claudia Puig of USA Today (8/0)
            ...shockingly hilarious satire that knows no bounds.

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Matthew Turner of ViewLondon (8/0)
            Sacha Baron Cohen's riotous comedy is guaranteed to offend almost everyone, but it's also genuine...

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Willie Waffle of WaffleMovies.com (8/0)
            Borat is funny, but it's not the Jesus Christ of comedies.

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Susan Granger of www.susangranger.com (8/0)
            It's sexually explicit, slyly slanderous, taking satiric aim at the simplistic absurdity of super...

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John Beifuss of Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (3/5) Login Required (Login Required)
            To paraphrase a great possum: We have met the racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic crazy Kazakh, and ...

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Christopher Smith of Bangor Daily News (Maine) (7/1) No reference
            The movie's twist is whether we should pity those real-life Americans tricked by Cohen, who is Je...

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Danny Minton of Beaumont Journal (4/4) No reference
            The jokes hit hard and almost too often making your own laughter serve as earplugs for half of th...

                         Reviews of Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
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Kevin Courrier of Boxoffice Magazine (3/5) No reference
            Borat is an equal opportunity offender that doesn't insult your intelligence.

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Devin Faraci of CHUD (7/1) No reference
            Sacha Baron Cohen is a master improviser.

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Pablo Villaca of Cinema em Cena (7/1) No reference
            Uma comédia não apenas engraçadíssima (algo cada vez mais raro), mas também inteligente e repleta...

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Mary F. Pols of Contra Costa Times (3/5) No reference
            A much-anticipated, intermittently hilarious mockumentary.

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Jeff Vice of Deseret News, Salt Lake City (7/1) No reference
            This already controversial 'mockumentary' contains more laugh-out-loud moments than any film sinc...

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Richard Roeper of Ebert & Roeper (3/5) No reference
            I did find this to be one of the more inventive, aggressively offensive and insanely tasteless co...

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Donald Munro of Fresno Bee (4/4) No reference
            One of the meanest movies you'll ever see, which counts as pretty high praise for a comedy

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James Sanford of Kalamazoo Gazette (7/1) No reference
            a great litmus test for determining exactly how far a joke can go before you stop laughing. ...th...

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Robert W. Butler of Kansas City Star (3/5) No reference
            Borat will offend as many as it delights. It’s practically a litmus test for thick-skinnedness. I...

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John Larsen of Light Views (7/1) No reference
            What makes all of this so funny is being in on the joke.

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Nell Minow of Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies (7/1) No reference
            The most extensive and subversive practical joke ever played by a Hollywood studio. America's be...

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Kurt Loder of MTV (4/4) No reference
            Cohen's dauntless refusal to break character, even in the most uncomfortable situations, is amazi...

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Lisa Rose of Newark Star-Ledger (3/5) No reference
            Crude, confrontational and stunningly sick, it's a movie made in the fringe tradition of Pink Fla...

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Shawn Levy of Oregonian (3/5) No reference
            It's not well made, nor does it tell an especially memorable story, nor is its humor always (as i...

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Gary Thompson of Philadelphia Daily News (3/5) No reference
            Borat is a combination of mockumentary and Jackass -- Cohen gulls folks into thinking he's a real...

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James Kendrick of Q Network Film Desk (4/4) No reference
            Vulgar, hilarious, and frighteningly revealing.

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Forrest Hartman of Reno Gazette-Journal (4/4) No reference
            While Borat is not the revolution some entertainment writers would have you believe it does offer...

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Mike Ward of Richmond.com (7/1) No reference
            Reviewing Borat is kind of like doing an autopsy on a clown. Some scenes are borderline awkwardly...

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Jack Garner of Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (4/4) No reference
            I have seldom laughed as hard and as consistently as I did while watching the much-ballyhooed new...

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Carla Meyer of Sacramento Bee (7/1) No reference
            The outrageous comedy Borat holds a mirror up to the casual bigotry within American society. But ...

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Kam Williams of Upstage Magazine (7/1) No reference
            Horrifying, vulgar and exploitative, yet simultaneously inspired, brilliant, convulsively hilario...

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Daniel M. Kimmel of Worcester Telegram & Gazette (4/4) No reference
            This side-splitting satire ranges from brilliant skewerings of American society to low humor tha...

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Lawrence Toppman of Charlotte Observer (7/1) Not Reachable
            If you've ever wanted to see a film where 'naked fight coordinator' was one of the credits -- you...

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Harvey S. Karten of Compuserve (7/1) Not Reachable
            Politically reactionary: the satire attacks the kind, the vulnerable, the 'little guy,' not the m...

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Rene Rodriguez of Miami Herald (7/1) Not Reachable
            Flat-out hilarious -- arguably the funniest American comedy since Airplane!

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Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) of St. Paul Pioneer Press (4/4) Not Reachable
            Borat is gasp-for-breath, wipe-your-eyes, hurt-your-stomach, try-to-stop-laughing-so-you-don't-mi...

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Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone of TheMovieChicks.com (7/1) Not Reachable
            If you laugh at vulgar jokes or things you'd be ashamed to admit to finding funny in front of you...

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