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Posted on Fri, May 18, 2012 : 12:48 p.m.

'The Dictator' a step back for Sacha Baron Cohen

By AnnArbor.com Freelance Journalist

The Dictator
Now showing at Quality 16, Showcase, Brighton
Review by Corey Hall of the Metro Times
Grade: B-

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Sacha Baron Cohen has always danced on the knife-edge of comedy, and with a style that is half acerbic brilliance and half idiotic slapstick, eventually he was bound to slip and stab himself on his own sharpness. Not that "The Dictator" is a career disembowelment, but numerous small chinks do appear in what once seemed to be an invulnerable exterior.

Read the full review here