Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan Critic Reviews

A comic put-on of awe-inspiring crudity and death-defying satire and by a long shot the funniest film of the year. It is "Jackass" with a brain and Mark Twain with full frontal male nudity.Read the full review

Very nice. I like Borat very much. I think it is, as everybody has been saying, the funniest movie in years.Read the full review

The result is a perfect combination of slapstick and satire, a Platonic ideal of high-and lowbrow that manages to appeal to our basest common denominators while brilliantly skewering racism, anti-Semitism, sexism and that peculiarly American affliction: we're-number-one-ism.Read the full review

Wildly funny. Its best jokes approach some savage, atavistic core of cultural taboo and make the viewer wonder: Is it really possible to laugh at this? But by the time you formulate that question, it's too late: You're already laughing.Read the full review

It's screamingly, hysterically, laugh-through-the-next-joke, laugh-for-the-next-week funny. It's so inventive…This is a film by an original and significant comic intelligence.Read the full review

You won't know what outrageous fun is until you see Borat. High-five!Read the full review

When Baron Cohen works without a net, he flies.Read the full review

The brilliance of Borat is that its comedy is as pitiless as its social satire, and as brainy.Read the full review

Not since the halcyon days of Archie Bunker and "All in the Family" has so sharp a wit punctured so many balloons.Read the full review