In “The Dictator,” though, he finally goes outside his own discomfort zone. Both “Borat” and “Bruno” depended on dropping a preposterous character in the middle of real Americans and ...

The Dictator The gags are more exhausted than Gaddafi's regime as Sacha Baron Cohen graduates from documentary punking to standard comedy. Kurt Loder | 5.15.2012 3:30 PM.

The movie’s high point, though, is at the U.N., where facts, simply stated, make for searing satire. Still, by the end it’s hard not to think that this particular joke has gone on too long.

Kinda-Sorta Funny in a Who-Caresy Sort of Way Patton Oswalt used to have a bit about going to open mics when he was a younger comedian, saying there were essentially three types of performers you ...

Finally, a movie for people who think the best way to make fun of Osama bin Laden is with poop jokes. Granted, that's not all "The Dictator" has to offer: There are also jokes about torture ...

The Dictator Trailer. Larry Charles' The Dictator (2012) movie trailer stars Sacha Baron Cohen, Megan Fox, John C. Reilly, Ben Kingsley, and B.J. Novak. The ...

Say it isn’t so. Is Sacha Baron Cohen, a.k.a. Ali G, Borat and Bruno, actually starring in a movie with a semi-coherent plot? Seems like it. There’s not a mock-doc, improvised, caught-on-the ...

Movie Review - 'The Dictator' There was Ali G, Borat and Bruno — and now, in The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen has a new character to add to his repertoire: ...

THR’s Todd McCarthy wrote while the film “will prove too extreme for a portion of the mainstream public, Baron Cohen's fans should generally welcome it to good box-office returns.

“The Dictator” never achieves the stinging parodic heights of Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” movie, but manages a better batting average than his most recent misfire, “Bruno.” ...