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

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

I don't know if there are any comedians working today as fully dedicated to a joke as Sacha Baron Cohen.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Aug 11, 2009

The film's one authentic moment has him stalking Harrison Ford, who tells him in no uncertain terms where to go; frankly, I was with Ford.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 17, 2009

Wholly unsuitable for children, yet propelled by a nagging puerility that will appeal only to those in the vortex of puberty, or to adults who have failed to progress beyond it.

| Jul 13, 2009

a hit-and-miss brand of humor, as likely to leave you squirming from embarrassment as howling with laughter.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2009

There's good bad taste and then there's just plain bad bad, which is what describes most of Brüno.

| Original Score: C | Jul 10, 2009

Baron Cohen's instincts for outrage are spot on. It's not insight we need at all right now, but a very sharp bonk on the head.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2009

It's a thing , not a movie -- if, that is, you believe a movie should be more than an accumulation of prankish set-pieces flimsily strung over 80 skimpy minutes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 10, 2009

More gut-bustingly funny than anything else out there right now.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2009

Outrageous, unnerving, brave, topical, revealing, appalling and consistently hilarious, Brüno manages to be both cutting-edge cultural commentary and post-modern comic genius.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 10, 2009

A crude, cringe-worthy, and intermittently funny affair that triggers the gag reflex.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 10, 2009

For all his idiocy, Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev was a more likable jester than Brüno, who is the sum of his nether parts. One is a naif in a strange land. One is a jerk no matter where he travels.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 10, 2009

Cohen has come up with some marvelous satirical motifs; elsewhere, he's just showing how far he'll go to get a laugh.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2009

It's an odd cop-out for so fiercely gifted a comedian.... This is not a man who is doomed to be Allen Funt, or for that matter, Ashton Kutcher. He doesn't need to rely on the easy titillations and voyeuristic pull of reality 온라인카지노추천.

| Jul 10, 2009

The bad outweighs the good and the cringes outnumber the laughs in Brüno, a disappointment from Sacha Baron Cohen, whose Borat was one of the funniest movies of the decade.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 10, 2009

When moments seem like setups with actors, they turn tame. But when things feel real -- as when Bruno conronts an Arkansas wrestling-match crowd -- they can get scary-real.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Jul 10, 2009

Even at 82 minutes, Brüno feels stretched-out with stitched-together filler.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 10, 2009

Inevitably, this follow-up to Cohen's guerrilla mockumentary hit is a substantial letdown, lacking the novelty of its predecessor.

| Jul 10, 2009

Skeptics might not swallow it all, and thinner-skinned folks will surely be offended. But no one will deny that Baron Cohen is fearless in his pursuit of rowdy laughs.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 10, 2009