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Weekend Film Reviews

The Dictator; Battleship

Hosted by Joe Morgenstern May. 18, 2012 Entertainment
Joe Morgenstern considers Sacha Baron Cohen’s gleefully scabrous portrait of a fictional North African tyrant, and a board game gone megabudget-ballistic.

The Dictator starts high, with a tribute to the memory of Kim Jong Il, and tosses off some sensationally funny stuff, but soon descends into a rat-a-tat rhythm of random insult and ritual vulgarity…


 

In Battleship, there comes a time when the fate of our planet seems to have been sealed by an attack from outer space…

 

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