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  • Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan (2006)
    Review preview for Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan

    The unconscious is never suppressed and the id runs riot

    Anton Bitel · 4.5 out of 5
    A fake documentary about a Kazakhstani TV reporter on a cultural mission to America.
  • Brüno (2009)
    Review preview for Brüno

    A lot of the humour here is genuinely edgy and will offend some viewers, but it has a purpose.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An Austrian gay fashion icon endeavours to become world famous.
  • The Dictator (2012)
    Review preview for The Dictator

    Like the best comedy, it's both wilfully stupid and deceptively clever, pushing buttons you may not expect.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A Middle Eastern dictator is summoned before the UN Security Council in relation to concerns about his nuclear weapons programme.
  • Religulous (2008)
    Review preview for Religulous

    A scabrous, at times shocking assault on the more idiotic aspects of religion, and the dangers that they pose in a society capable for the first time of bringing about its own destructive Apocalypse.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Comedian Bill Maher champions scepticism in an age of rising religious fundamentalism.

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