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Review of by David Edelstein for NPR — 15 May 2012

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The good news is that The Dictator is a loose and silly and occasionally exhilarating political farce in the tradition of Chaplin's The Great Dictator (obviously) and the Marx Brothers' antiwar masterpiece "Duck Soup.

" And it comes in at a fleet 83 minutes - just right.

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This review of The Dictator (2012) was written by and published by NPR on 15 May 2012.

The Dictator has generally received mixed reviews.

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