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The Dictator

2012

Larry Charles

Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, Jason Mantzoukas ...

5.4

39,771

Comedy The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"'The Dictator' is funny, in addition to being obscene, disgusting, scatological, vulgar, crude and so on (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"'The Dictator' leaves you laughing helplessly. It starts at outrageous and rockets on from there (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"The easily offended will be appalled. The rarely offended may be appalled. But they'll have to stop laughing long enough to realize it (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Ann Hornaday The Washington Post	"Never achieves the stinging parodic heights of Cohen's Borat movie, but manages a better batting average than his most recent misfire, Bruno (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"Baron Cohen's demonstrations of political 'outrageousness' feel all too canned, planned, and defanged"	POS

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