July 9, 2009
Brüno,
the latest film from guerrilla provocateurs Sacha Baron Cohen and
Larry Charles, is an 88-minute exercise is outrage and offense.
It's funny, though not quite as painfully hysterical as the duo's
last film, Borat, and intermittently reveals flashes of
obscene genius. But funny as the movie is, writes Associate Editor
Peter Suderman, the subdermal bigotry the filmmakers seem to be
chasing barely surfaces, and then only when provoked. In
Brüno, America faces down the gayest of the gay, and, for
the most part, acquits itself rather well.
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