The Dictator
The Dictator is a 2012 political satire black comedy following the heroics of an oppressive dictator who resists the emergence of a democratic government in his country.
5 February 1967, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
10 February 1960, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
24 May 1965, Chicago, Illinois, USA
20 January 1979, Virginia, Minnesota, USA
20 July 1961, Glen Cove, New York, USA
27 March 1969, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
18 August 1969, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
6 December 1966, Newton, Massachusetts, USA
4 January 1957, Port Said, Egypt
16 May 1986, Rockwood, Tennessee, USA
17 October 1974, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 23, 2013
This is not a character who can hold the center of a movie for 90 minutes.
May 22, 2012
The film has a vicious edge that the Marx Brothers didn't have, and it's too low-minded to achieve their enchanting blend of anarchy and surrealism.
May 16, 2012
A bit scattershot and schticky, the film never quite settles into a consistent comic rhythm. Yet for fans of Baron Cohen's work there are plenty of moments of crass hilarity.
June 02, 2013
A mix of gimme jokes and fish-out-of-water observations about a foreigner's introduction to New York City that were rendered clichéd by 'Crocodile Dundee.'
May 03, 2015
Feels more like one of those lousy SNL movies from the early nineties than the work of our sharpest contemporary satirist.
May 03, 2016
The problem is that, unlike Ali G, Borat, and Brüno, Aladeen is less a force of nature than a scripted performance.
May 17, 2012
Now [Cohen is] turning material both fresh and rancid into tepid gruel.
June 30, 2013
This comedy succeeds as a crude, inventive and humours look at a dumb despot.
March 04, 2013
Consistently offensive, and not in a way that should automatically be dismissed as 'edgy' or 'provocative'.
May 16, 2012
Most of The Dictator had me neither laughing nor shocked, but just staring at the screen in anxious is-that-all-there-is? silence.
March 04, 2013
Underrated comic excellence from Sacha Baron Cohen with plenty of sharp satire lacing the broader gross-out gags.
May 17, 2012
On the laughmeter The Dictator is closer to Borat than to the misfired Bruno, which is to say it's funny for about half of its brisk 83 minutes.
