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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie is a toxic dart aimed at the spangly new heart of American hypocrisy: our fake-tolerant, fake-charitable, fake-liberated-yet-still madly-closeted fame culture.
- 88Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversYou'll hoot and holler as it strips down its targets and sticks it to them, hardcore. Baron Cohen is the pure, untamed id of movie comedy.
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertA no-holds-barred comedy permitting several holds I had not dreamed of. The needle on my internal Laugh Meter went haywire, bouncing among hilarity, appreciation, shock, admiration, disgust, disbelief and appalled incredulity.
- 80Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanFunny as it is, Brüno could not be as shockingly uproarious as "Borat." No matter how well retold, a joke necessarily loses explosive force the second time around. But a great gag is a thing of beauty forever--so, too, a comic performance.
- 75New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickProbably more gut-bustingly funny than anything else out there right now.
- 75ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliIt'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.
- 70VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyUndeniably funny, outrageous and boundary-pushing, this further documentation of Sacha Baron Cohen's sheer nerve will draw an abundant share of "Borat" fans.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIs Brüno riotous? Yes, more so than "Borat," in which Baron Cohen's targets were ducks in a barrel and largely undeserving of ridicule. He doesn't aim much higher here, but his tricks are more inventive.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsExtraordinarily raunchy, occasionally funny.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttBruno is only intermittently funny and all too often the "ambushes" of celebrities and civilians look staged. The movie is even a tad -- dare we say it? -- tedious.