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54
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85
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83
Paranoid Park
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Alexandra
83
U2 3D
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Chop Shop
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Taxi to the Dark Side
80
Band's Visit, The
79
Visitor, The
78
Counterfeiters, The
76
Unforeseen, The
76
Stuff and Dough
75
Young@Heart
75
Shotgun Stories
74
Witnesses, The
73
Duchess of Langeais, The
72
Roman de gare
72
Priceless
72
Tuya's Marriage
72
Life of Reilly, The
71
My Brother Is an Only Child
71
Blindsight
71
Standard Operating Procedure
70
Caramel
69
Redbelt
69
Chicago 10
68
Honeydripper
67
Snow Angels
67
Praying with Lior
67
Year My Parents Went on Vacation, The
67
Jellyfish
66
George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead
66
Shelter
65
Married Life
64
Surfwise
64
Son of Rambow
64
Water Lilies
63
XXY
63
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
63
Body of War
63
Blind Mountain
62
Planet B-Boy
62
Battle for Haditha
61
Dhamma Brothers, The
61
OSS 117: Cairo - Nest of Spies
61
Girls Rock!
59
Under the Same Moon
59
Fugitive Pieces
58
First Saturday in May, The
58
Fall, The
58
Hats Off
58
Bra Boys
57
Flawless
57
Teeth
57
Without the King
57
Grand, The
56
Turn the River
56
Then She Found Me
55
Vice
55
Tracey Fragments, The
55
Pathology
55
Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts
54
Cashback
54
Mister Lonely
52
Noise
52
My Blueberry Nights
50
Look
48
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48
Dark Matter
48
Penelope
47
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47
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46
CJ7
46
Previous Engagement, A
45
Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?
45
Zombie Strippers
44
Frontier(s)
44
Chaos Theory
43
Anamorph
43
Favor, The
41
Funny Games
40
Sleepwalking
37
Life Before Her Eyes, The
35
Meet Bill
35
Babysitters, The
35
Deal
32
Backseat
32
Chapter 27
30
Cover
24
Sex and Death 101
20
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
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Prom Night
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Tashan
xx
Unsettled
xx
Plumm Summer, A
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Kiss the Bride
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
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FILM:
MPAA RATING: R for pervasive strong crude and sexual content including graphic nudity, and language
Starring
Sacha Baron Cohen,
Pamela Anderson,
Ken Davitian,
Pat Haggerty,
and
Alan Keyes
The movie film is a government assigned project to broaden and enlight people and glory of nation. Cultural learning is emportant to follow on global basis. We make our nation a better and more convenient place for house and living. Kazakhs are progressive and asstonishing people that with conclusion of project will have new optimistic approach in daily life in world of same people. Our film will bring the US & A closer to us. We help with needs of kazakh knowledge and Us&a culture is positive step for future of our glorious nation. (20th Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Comedy
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Sacha Baron Cohen (also story),
Anthony Hines (also story), Peter Baynham (also story),
Dan Mazer,
Todd Phillips (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Larry Charles
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 6, 2007
Theatrical: November 3, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
82 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
You won't know what outrageous fun is until you see Borat. High-five!
100
Empire
Dan Jolin
Absurd, outrageous, gross, disturbing, insightful, and so funny it’ll burst half the blood vessels in your face.
100
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
Borat is a rarity: a comedy whose middle name is danger, or as the Kazakhs say, kauwip-kater.
100
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
The result is a perfect combination of slapstick and satire, a Platonic ideal of high-and lowbrow that manages to appeal to our basest common denominators while brilliantly skewering racism, anti-Semitism, sexism and that peculiarly American affliction: we're-number-one-ism.
100
Slate
Dana Stevens
Wildly funny. Its best jokes approach some savage, atavistic core of cultural taboo and make the viewer wonder: Is it really possible to laugh at this? But by the time you formulate that question, it's too late: You're already laughing.
100
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
Borat isn't just one of the funniest movies of the year, it might be one of the funniest movies of all time.
100
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
As clever as he is crude, Cohen alchemizes bad-taste comedy into Strangelovean satire.
100
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
I can't wait to see Borat, which has twice as many laughs as all of this year's other movie comedies combined, for a fourth time.
100
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
I hate to sound blurby, but Borat is the funniest comedy I've seen since I don't know when.
100
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
Though Borat has been likened to "Jackass," there's a huge difference. The "Jackass" movies are about extreme stunts. Borat is about interaction and gullibility, and its success is unique to both Cohen and to this one-time-only movie.
100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Borat is a terrific, risky comic creation: a village idiot for the global village.
100
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A comic put-on of awe-inspiring crudity and death-defying satire and by a long shot the funniest film of the year. It is "Jackass" with a brain and Mark Twain with full frontal male nudity.
100
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It's screamingly, hysterically, laugh-through-the-next-joke, laugh-for-the-next-week funny. It's so inventive…This is a film by an original and significant comic intelligence.
100
Newsweek
David Ansen
This is comedy from the danger zone, and it will genuinely offend some folks who feel certain subjects are not to be laughed at. They'd best stay at home. Fans should be warned as well: Borat can make you laugh so hard it hurts.
91
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
When Baron Cohen works without a net, he flies.
90
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Indeed, the man who invented Borat is a masterful improviser, brilliant comedian, courageous political satirist, and genuinely experimental film artist. Borat makes you laugh but Baron Cohen forces you to think.
90
Variety
Leslie Felperin
Uproariously funny mockumentary.
90
The New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The brilliance of Borat is that its comedy is as pitiless as its social satire, and as brainy.
90
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
Not since the halcyon days of Archie Bunker and "All in the Family" has so sharp a wit punctured so many balloons.
90
Salon.com
Stephanie Zacharek
Borat is an astonishingly entertaining picture, and it's a testament to Cohen's gifts that he can pull off a feat as extravagant and as fully realized as this one is.
89
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
This feature-length expansion of Cohen's deliciously ridiculous character accomplishes what decades of Soviet propaganda failed to do: It points out and underscores issues of race, religious intolerance, classism, and all manner of very American social ills by giving the culprits just enough rope to hang themselves by their own petards (and then some).
88
USA Today
Claudia Puig
Borat is most gloriously funny moving picture for to make people see their stupidness.
88
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It takes some exceptionally intelligent and witty people to make a dumb comedy this funny and perceptive: Borat may be offensive (to some), infantile, low-brow or even just a stunt, but you won't hate yourself in the morning for loving it.
88
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Baron Cohen brings scary conviction to the performance.
83
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
As slapstick, as satire, as sheer gut-busting comedy, Borat is top notch.
83
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
In choosing cheap gags over incisive cultural commentary, Borat scores more as scatology than satire, but it's easy to overlook its ramshackle nature in light of the explosive laughter.
80
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
It is equipped, like an F-15 Eagle, to engage multiple targets at once.
80
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
The gimmick is simple but devastatingly effective: Never once breaking character or acknowledging that he’s in on the joke, the Jew-fearing, grammatically challenged reporter ingratiates himself with his unsuspecting, average-American victims before uproariously turning the tables on them.
80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
With his corrosive brand of take-no-prisoners humor that scalds on contact, Cohen is the most intentionally provocative comedian since Lenny Bruce and early Richard Pryor, with a difference. For unlike those predecessors, there is a mean-spiritedness, an every-man-for-himself coldness about his humor. The one kind of laughter you won't find in Borat is that which acknowledges shared humanity. Instead, there is that pitiless staple of reality TV, watching others humiliate themselves for our viewing pleasure.
80
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The weapon wielded by Cohen and Charles is crudeness. People today, especially those in public life, can disguise prejudice in coded language and soft tones. Bigotry is ever so polite now. So the filmmakers mean to drag the beast out into the sunlight of brilliant satire and let everyone see the rotting, stinking, foul thing for what it is. When you laugh at something that is bad, it loses much of its power.
75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The variation keeps things fresh and the relatively short running length (less than 90 minutes) ensures that Borat doesn't overstay its welcome - even though when it's all done, we wish this absurd man might have lingered a little longer.
75
Premiere
Jessica Letkemann
Borat is, in many ways, an heir to the same kind of subversion of American norms that the transvestite Divine perfected in John Waters’ early films.
75
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
It's a fearless performance and yields some squirm-inducingly funny moments.
75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Cohen and his gang are smart enough to know when to quit. Like a loud but amusing guest at a dinner party, Borat collects his coat and goes home just as his hosts are starting to fidget.
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Rick Groen
Borat at its best is pure satiric genius, the Swiftian kind that has you busting a gut with laughter even while checking your conscience for implicating flaws.
50
New York Magazine
David Edelstein
Except for a screamingly funny climax in which he attempts to kidnap Pamela Anderson (who reportedly wasn't in on the joke), I found the Borat feature (directed by Larry Charles, who does similar duties on "Curb Your Enthusiasm") depressing; and the paroxysms of the audience reinforced the feeling that I was watching a bearbaiting or pigsticking.
50
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The movie itself cannot begin to match its delicious high concept. It's offensively funny in places but it can't sustain itself for a feature length running time and it's not nearly as clever or as fun as it should be.
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