Funny how Brüno, the latest cinematic incarnation inspired by a character from Sacha Baron Cohen’s Da Ali G Show, proves to be daring, topical, and so revealing about American society, while also being so crude, outrageous, and shocking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 4, 2023

For those fearing that fame may have dulled Baron Cohen's edge, I can tell you it hasn't.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 31, 2021

This second outing of in-your-face raunchiness is less unexpected as it is simply extreme.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 28, 2020

The joke is now beginning to wear thin. Most of Brüno's interactions with his unwitting stooges are pretty lame and you wonder how many hours of filming he had to go through to get even this paltry footage.

| Nov 22, 2020

To describe Bruno as no-holds-barred is an understatement.

| Original Score: 2.5/4.0 | Sep 4, 2020

In an endless series of wildly offensive, boundary-pushing adventures designed to provoke both laughter and anger, Sacha Baron Cohen entertains us by holding up a mirror to our own ridiculous prejudices with gross, over-the-top humor.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2019

While Cohen's intentions are noble...the execution is lazy, sloppy and sometimes even boring.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 9, 2019

What is always very clear is his immense comedic talent, pushing his subjects and his audiences out of their comfort zones to make a very real point

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2019

Cohen displayed enough subtlety with Borat, but he is so over the top as Bruno, you can't help to wonder how many of the bits in this film where staged. That being said, there are some moments of comic genius.

| Original Score: B- | May 16, 2019

At the very least, Brüno signals that while politics lag behind, the culture are ready to move on.

| Oct 19, 2018

Well, when it's funny, it is funny, but it is only intermittently funny... What I'm saying, I think, is that the joke has worn thin.

| Aug 29, 2018

... absurd displays of cheap controversy. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 16, 2018

Baron Cohen is, without doubt, the ballsiest comic of his generation-and one of the brightest. But it's hard to imagine him taking the guerrilla shock tactics of Borat and Brüno any further.

| Feb 6, 2018

What's most consistently brilliant about the film is Baron Cohen's acting. He never breaks character for a second.

| Jan 2, 2018

Add to that a spectacular celebrity-studded finale and you have a very successful, if not quite as original, follow up to one of the funniest films of this century.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 22, 2016

if mixed martial arts fans who view the film are forever after afraid of fighters getting aroused during a ground-and-pound session on the mat, then Baron Cohen did the job right.

| Feb 1, 2011

A plot synopsis doesn't quite capture the visceral thrill of our hero's bizarre and shocking adventure.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Oct 27, 2010

The only thing Cohen can do is to throw the character's sexuality in people's faces, but there are several brilliant sequences of baiting and utilizing American gay panic that really hit the satirical button.

| Sep 12, 2010

there are very little or no examples of comedic genius in this film

| Original Score: 2/10 | Dec 17, 2009

Staged or not, Cohen still displays a fearlessness and commitment to character unparalleled in the comedy world today.

| Dec 17, 2009