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(1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   1   "The only thing Cohen can do is to throw the character's sexuality in people's faces, but there are several brilliant sequences of baiting and utilizing American gay panic that really hit the satirical button."   Examiner.com   Adam Lippe 4/5 "Bruno's quest to become the most famous Austrian star 'since Hitler' is shocking, vulgar and shamelessly defamatory. It's also downright hilarious."   Cut Print Review   Anders Wotzke 1/5 "If you're naďve, in high school, or a dedicated follower of scatology, you'll think this is genius. Anyone with world experience, however, will feel left out of the loop."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B+ "It's a bubbling potion of the staged and the real that supplies a suitable comfort zone for Cohen to manufacture his most outrageous character: a hulking gay fashionista with a tireless libido and a limited appreciation for personal space."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf B- "...provokes half as many laughs in a seemingly less improvised comedy that goes twice again as far as Borat in goosing sexual sight gags designed to make even the most numb audience members blanch."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 4/5 "But by pointing out how low some people will sink to hit the heights of fame, Baron Cohen can raise as many valid discussions as he can squirms."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger C+ "The pic is all about Cohen goofing on others he feels superior to."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 3.5/4 "A politically-incorrect savior, that rare comedy that revels in bad taste while also actually having something worthwhile to say about the world we live in and the senselessness of stereotypes."   DustinPutman.com   Dustin Putman B "Funny, yes. Astute in its satire, not as much."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2.5/4 "While there are some big laughs to be had, Bruno ultimately fails at its more grandiose intentions as a sharp satire about our obsessions with celebrity and tendencies towards homophobia."   eFilmCritic.com   Erik Childress "For all of its button-pushing, the end result is almost as superficial as its egocentric hero."   DVD Review   Felix Gonzalez Jr. "Illustrates not the public's gullibility but a comic's waning sense of danger"   CinePassion   Fernando F. Croce C- "A condescending picture that always takes aim at easy targets, fires away with a blunderbuss, and then pretends to be courageous for what it's done."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek "Bruno, really, works as a parodic primer on How to Become a Celebrity, mocking A- through D-listers, as well as those who aren't even on a list..."   The L Magazine   Henry Stewart 3/4 "For those of a non-Puritanical mindset, it's hard to deny that Brüno succeeds in being both outrageous and outrageously funny, and it's hard to damn a comedy, regardless of its faults, for those qualities."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/4 "For those willing to endure the shocks and actually think about them afterwards, the film's jokes work on multiple levels, although it is hard not to feel that there is some diminishing return this time around"   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/5 "... it feels funny enough -- and that may be the unkindest thing of all you could say about a comedy"   MSN Movies   James Rocchi 7/10 "[Homophobia] deserves confrontation, but when done in the manner of the movie here, it is less enlightening than it is just plain squirmingly funny."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "Parental Content Review"   Screen It!   Jim Judy "Putting his hairless self in harm's way, Sacha Baron Cohen sets the bar for guerilla comedy as high and as low as it can go."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   John P. McCarthy 4/5 "Jive-talking robots and Ben Stiller 'going full retard' be damned. Brüno is easily one of the most offensive films in years, and that is what makes it awesome."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B- "Borat got some pretty uncomfortable and surprising behavior from people. Brüno shoots fish in a barrel."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford "Baron Cohen's daring and fearlessness as a cultural critic is in as grand a form here as it was in Borat, his last adventure in... lampooning... kneejerk ignorance and superficiality."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "As outlandish as the central character is, he uncovers some biting truths that no comedy writer could invent any better."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina 3.5/4 "The way the film exposes, tries, convicts, and administers punishment to homophobes - through humor rather than preachiness - had me laughing for 82 straight minutes."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan 3/4 "Brüno is like Milk, but with a talking penis."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 2/5 "Artificial e cruel quando deveria ser espontâneo e instigante, finalmente acaba cometendo um erro fatal para qualquer comédia: leva o espectador a sentir dó das "vítimas" de seu astro."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "It is proof positive that this emperor of comedy has no clothes, a fact that he seems depressingly eager to demonstrate throughout."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "Baron Cohen is an astonishingly focussed performer; we have no idea how he doesn't crack a smile."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "Brüno is hit or miss for its first half or so but picks up steam as it goes along."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C+ "This film is probably yet another bit of fallout from that blight on civilization known as reality television. God help us all."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 7/10 "Whether it's outrageously offensive or offensively outrageous, it's laugh-out-loud funny."   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 6/10 "Mostly entertaining; but it's not very memorable, insightful, probing, or revolutionary."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 4/5 "Cohen still displays a fearlessness and commitment to character unparalleled in the comedy world today, and that’s what elevates his stunts from the level of Jackass-type flinch fodder to something considerably more outrageous."   Orlando Weekly   William Goss "Click here to see review"   Wolf Entertainment Guide   William Wolf 3/4 "'Bruno' is just as much filthier and certainly more bodacious than any comedy you've seen."   BlackFilm.com   Wilson Morales  (1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 75% Fresh Page   1