The film sees Baron Cohen’s fictional North African dictator, General Admiral Aladeen, wandering around New York after facing an assassination attempt at home.

In “The Dictator,” though, he finally goes outside his own discomfort zone. Both “Borat” and “Bruno” depended on dropping a preposterous character in the middle of real Americans and ...

Film review: ‘The Dictator’ is humorous, but stretches bad taste. By Andy Klein . May 18, 2012 1:49 PM PT ...

“The Dictator” never achieves the stinging parodic heights of Sacha Baron Cohen’s “Borat” movie, but manages a better batting average than his most recent misfire, “Bruno.” ...

The Dictator feels like a film Sacha Baron Cohen was forced to make. It doesn't have the passion of Ali G or Borat, or the sharp eye for social commentary that's made his earlier efforts so ...

When "The Great Dictator," Charles Chaplin's bitter satire of Adolf Hitler, opened in 1940, more than a year before the U.S. entered World War II, many were outraged that a British citizen had ...

Eighty years ago, Charlie Chaplin skewered the Nazis in his satire The Great Dictator. Nicholas Barber looks at how the film has wider relevance today. It's hardly surprising that Charlie Chaplin ...

In this summer of landmark Supreme Court decisions and presidential candidates throwing their hats in the ring, it’s fitting that this July, the Heights Theater is sponsoring “The Political Circus,” a ...

Finally, a movie for people who think the best way to make fun of Osama bin Laden is with poop jokes. Granted, that's not all "The Dictator" has to offer: There are also jokes about torture ...