AP calls ‘Dictator’ Cohen’s ‘least-focused’ film; Daily News finds it most ‘structured’ and ‘polished’ work
Sacha Baron Cohen, in character as “The Dictator,” may be a good-natured despot out for laughs as well as for power, but not all critics left the theater with a satisfied grin.
Cohen’s new movie has drawn special attention in Brooklyn, where his character, a dictator from a fictional north African country, seeks refuge and love in an organic grocery store in Park Slope. The early reviews for the “The Dictator” are mixed: Associated Press critic Christy Lemire delivered an emphatic thumbs down (with one-and-a-half stars out of four); the NY Daily News’ Elizabeth Weitzman gave it a rave (with four stars out of five).
From Christy Lemire of AP: