Borat's cultural learning is revealing, even if it doesn't adequately convey how it benefits glorious nation of Kazakhstan.

| Jul 16, 2008

The backlash just proves how deep a nerve the faux Kazakh journalist has hit.

| Nov 1, 2007

The genius of Borat is all in Sacha Baron Cohen's daring, edgy, unrestrained performance.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2007

Borat is a serious work of social criticism. But it's also the funniest movie I've ever seen.

| Original Score: A | Nov 22, 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.

Full Review | Nov 15, 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.

Full Review | Nov 13, 2006

Borat is so gut-bustingly funny it should carry a health warning.

| Nov 4, 2006

Cohen's genius lies in combining the chameleon-like virtuosity of Peter Sellers with the balls-out fearlessness of the Jackass crew.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 3, 2006

In an era of stale, formulaic comedies, this uproarious and ribald faux documentary is like a hit of pure oxygen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Somewhere in standup comedy heaven Andy Kaufman is smiling. Possibly even busting a gut.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 3, 2006

The cheerfully tasteless Borat is often screamingly funny and almost never dull, and that's more than I can say for just about every comedy to grace screens this year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

It's so inventive, so rich with comic moments, so outrageous, so shocking and unexpected, and so willing to be offensive that it consistently leaves viewers off balance -- and howling. This is a film by an original and significant comic intelligence.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Borat leaves no ethnicity, no religious or social order (well, maybe one or two) unmocked. Both the glorious U.S. and A. and the beautiful Kazakhstan get pilloried by Baron Cohen and his sublimely silly, unapologetically offensive shtick.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Put on two pairs of underwear and try to stay dry through one of the most uproariously -- or, in the case of the nude wrestling scene between Borat and his morbidly obese producer, disgustingly -- funny movies in a very long time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Expect to laugh uproariously; expect to choke back horror and revulsion, often at yourself.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

When Borat is good, it's very, very good, and when it's bad, it's box-office gold.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Borat packs all the intellectual punch of the standard pack of ultra-serious Oscar hopefuls. Plus it makes you laugh until your lungs hurt. And that's why it's one of the best movies of the year.

| Original Score: A | Nov 3, 2006

All you think while you're watching is how could people be so amusingly stupid, and why can't I quit laughing at the sight of two naked men wrestling?

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

I highly recommend Borat to anyone like myself with zero emotional I.Q., those with a thick skin for when former friends decide you're a moron by association, and the wise people who believe that Jackass was shafted for the 2002 Oscar.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 3, 2006

Very nice! I like Borat very much.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 3, 2006