Fresh
The backlash just proves how deep a nerve the faux Kazakh journalist has hit.
David Ansen, Newsweek
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Come to Kazakhstan, it's nice!
2006 · 1h 24m · R
Comedy
Directed by
Larry Charles
Overview
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Borat is a serious work of social criticism. But it's also the funniest movie I've ever seen.
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rotten
The theory of comedy here is that you can get away with almost anything if you manage to make your target audience feel superior to the human beings being mocked on the screen.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
I did find this to be one of the more inventive, aggressively offensive and insanely tasteless comedies in many a year. And yeah, that's a thumbs-up.
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper
Fresh
Borat is so gut-bustingly funny it should carry a health warning.
Tom Charity, CNN.com
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