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Brüno (2009) |
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| Empire Magazine | ||||
| A patchy, hit-and-miss comedy with a few outrageous highs and a lot of just-okay padding, Brüno suggests that Sacha Baron Cohen's in-your-face fool routine sadly isn't working any more. [Full Review] | ||||
| Sky Movies | ||||
| Vulgar and raucous, it's a well-worn rabble-rousing formula that delivers the requisite belly-laughs and occasionally hints at a deeper malaise lurking malevolently in Uncle Sam's psyche. [Full Review] | ||||
| Time Out | ||||
| The humour veers wildly between the childish (mistaking Hamas for ‘hummus’) and the savage (an encounter with a ‘healer’ of gays) and isn’t always focused enough. [Full Review] | ||||
| The Times | ||||
| But while Borat, for all his anti-Semitism and racism, had an endearingly clueless naivety, Brüno is vapid, mean-spirited and unlikeable, a fact that may harm the film’s commercial prospects — that and the harrowing anal bleaching scene. [Full Review] | ||||
| This Is London | ||||
| This is existential comedy at its best. You spend your time not only enjoying the joke but also wondering how he will survive it and progress from it, which is the only sort of narrative a character like Brüno can hope for. [Full Review] | ||||
| Rolling Stone | ||||
| Baron Cohen is on to something essential about our debased culture. His satire is Swiftian — crude, profane, fearless in using ridicule to bite hypocrisy on the ass. [Full Review] | ||||
| New York Post | ||||
| The humor is more mean-spirited and sometimes forced, a few bits don't work at all, and there's an inescapable feeling that director Larry Charles, returning from "Borat," has staged some scenes with scripted actors serving as Bruno's victims. [Full Review] | ||||
| Los Angeles Times | ||||
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In "Brüno," Baron Cohen tries to serve up an interactive, down-market street version of the provocative intellectual freestyle that (Lenny) Bruce mastered in comedy clubs before they started banning him. Both comics succeed in eliciting laughter and discomfort in equal measure. [Full Review] |
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| Variety | ||||
| …the humor -- and it keeps on coming -- carries with it an almost immediate sour aftertaste, as Bruno's intentions, and necessarily Cohen's along with them, appear far from honorable. [Full Review] | ||||
| USA Today | ||||
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Though the humor is sometimes hilarious and sometimes inane, the shock factor is undeniable. You'll cringe and watch through splayed fingers, but mostly you'll laugh. [Full Review] |
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