| Critics
Reviews |
Average
Grade: |
A- |
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|
Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Bob Townsend |
"Cohen never
gives a sucker an even break in this rude,
riotous mockumentary."
more... |
A- |
Boston Globe
Ty Burr |
"...by a long
shot the funniest film of the year."
more... |
A |
Chicago
Sun-Times
Jim Emerson |
"...shrewd and
discerning about choosing its targets."
more... |
A |
Chicago
Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"As the man
from Kazakhstan likes to say: Great
success!"
more... |
A |
E! Online
Dezhda Mountz |
"Cohen has
updated the art of racial satire for a new,
troubled world, and Borat is its king."
more... |
A |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"...it's no
reduction of Borat to say that the
whole movie is a kind of slapstick
psycho-political Jackass."
more... |
A- |
filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
"...Cohen is a
one-man-army of prodding laughs and
ingenious performance art."
more... |
A- |
Hollywood
Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt |
"For once it's
true: Borat has to be seen to be
believed."
more... |
A |
New York
Times
Manohla Dargis |
"The brilliance
of Borat is that its comedy is as
pitiless as its social satire, and as
brainy."
more... |
A |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"One of the
reasons Borat works is because it
doesn't belabor its jokes."
more... |
B |
Rolling
Stone
Peter Travers |
"Borat
will make you laugh till it hurts, and
you'll still beg for more."
more... |
A |
San
Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"...it's
screamingly, hysterically,
laugh-through-the-next-joke,
laugh-for-the-next-week funny."
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A |
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"By the end of
its relatively brief 84-minute running time,
the experience becomes downright
depressing."
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C |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...shockingly
hilarious satire that knows no bounds."
more... |
A- |
