This year’s Oscar-nominated short films will be released in select cities next month, but a vastly inferior program of shorts will sell at least 10 times the number of tickets. “Movie 43,” as it’s titled for no apparent reason, follows the Hollywood moneymaking formula recently re-popularized by “Valentine’s Day” and “New Year’s Eve”: maximize star-power […]
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Sacha Baron Cohen is perfectly capable of going after hard targets. And that’s the biggest disappointment about “The Dictator,” which at times suggests he’s going soft. Certainly, the gags are profane, vulgar, and habitually dedicated to annihilating good taste. But the edge that drew blood in both “Borat” and “Brüno” is dulled to harmlessness. Then
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The Dictator, Sacha Baron Cohen’s newest comedy about a foreign pervert lost in America, has a new red band trailer (possibly NSFW). The film stars Cohen as a deposed dictator uncomfortably interfacing with American society, apparently to the misfortune of those around him. The film is directed by Borat and Bruno helmer Larry Charles, and
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