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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 14 May 2012

The Dictator keeps the gags coming as fast as it can manage, sometimes in big gross-out setpieces like an impromptu baby delivery, but more…

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By Marshall Fine (1,011) for Hollywood & Fine (854) on 14 May 2012

A deft satire.. scabrous and deliciously observed, blending rudeness, visual gags, unexpected violence and other elements to create laughs…

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By Simon Miraudo (882) for Quickflix (709) on 14 May 2012

There is nary an awkward or horrifying scenario [Baron Cohen] won't subject himself to, and, despite the lack of fearless japery as seen in…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 14 May 2012

Fans of Cohen needn't worry about the shift to a script. There's still plenty of room for the comic's trademarked outrageousness…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 14 May 2012

The Dictator, for all its liberal leanings, doesn't let anyone off the hook, not even well-intentioned liberals…

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By Soren Andersen (496) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 14 May 2012

Terrorism and torture, anti-Semitism and pedophilia, onanism and armpit hair: They're all grist for the comic mill in Sacha Baron Cohen's latest…

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By Joe Williams (923) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 14 May 2012

Too short and undisciplined to be a world-class comedy, but its chutzpah deserves respect…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 14 May 2012

After laughing at crudely funny scenes in The Dictator, there's a cringing sensation of guilt…

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By J.r. Jones (1,066) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 14 May 2012

Cohen probably thinks he's Charlie Chaplin lampooning Hitler, but of course Hitler was still on top of the world when The Great Dictator came…

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By Eugene Novikov (936) for Film Blather (908) on 14 May 2012

The Dictator having been stripped of the attention-grabbing reality-show dimension of its predecessors, we are left wondering just what it…

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By Luke Buckmaster (275) for The Daily Review/Crikey (197) on 14 May 2012

The Dictator is the sort of film the Farrelly brothers would be making - and certainly would like to make - if they were writing edgy shock-comedy…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 14 May 2012

Although the character of Aladeen seems awfully predictable by Baron Cohen standards, the movie itself veers from one hilarious, absurd and…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 May 2012

What's shocking this time is how tame Sacha Baron Cohen's newest wild man is, for all the kerfuffle the comedian can stir up on the promotional…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 14 May 2012

Fans of Cohen needn't worry about the shift to a script. There's still plenty of room for the comic's trademarked outrageousness…

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By Ben Kenigsberg (863) for Time Out Chicago (129) on 14 May 2012

The reduction in spontaneity lowers the risks. Unsurprisingly, the best jokes fall closest to the old, topical template…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 May 2012

By turns hysterical, heretical, guilty, innocent, silly, sophisticated, teasing and tedious…

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By Karina Longworth (242) for Village Voice (8,525) on 14 May 2012

Even in its manufactured boundary-pushing - a flash of full-frontal Baron Cohen, another scene set partially inside a birth canal - The Dictator…

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By Katey Rich (412) for CinemaBlend.com (1,378) on 14 May 2012

An uncomfortable mix of comic setpieces and a treacly plot about a dictator who just wants to be loved…

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By Shawn Levy (1,238) for Oregonian (1,550) on 14 May 2012

The Dictator has a few laughs along its bumpy path, but not enough of them to indicate that Cohen has found a means to escape the shadows of…

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By Amy Biancolli (582) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 14 May 2012

The Dictator's over-the-top rant against the rank lunacy of authoritarianism deploys comedy like an act of violence; it's outrageous, quick…

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