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." more... | A |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold | "By the end of its relatively brief 84-minute running time, the experience becomes downright depressing." more... | C |
USA Today Claudia Puig | "...shockingly hilarious satire that knows no bounds." more... | A- |