
The Dictator
Sacha Baron Cohen reunites with director Larry Charles to lampoon despotic hubris in this scripted broad comedy. Playing Admiral General Aladeen of the fictional Republic of Wadiya, Cohen channels cartoonish tyranny alongside Anna Faris’s earnest organic grocery store activist. The film leans into brassy fish-out-of-water antics, visual slapstick, and blistering monologues that roast Western democratic pieties just as harshly as third-world autocracies. While swapping real-world ambush pranks for a conventional narrative, the biting political malice and Cohen’s total physical commitment make it an essential pivot for anyone hunting movies like Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.







