metro times: 'The Dictator' a step back for Sacha Baron Cohen

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.

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