The Dictator, Directed by Larry Charles Those familiar with Sacha Baron Cohen's sacrilegious work -- Borat (2006) and Bruno (2009) -- will wonder why this film, "The Dictator," not directed by the comic himself, made gargantuan strides into ... nothingness. Hardly a soul saw it, and reviews arced from tepid to uninterested to quasi dire-warnings. This then is the non-epic epic of a weasely dictator who risks his life and limber length to ensure that democracy never gets to the desert country he so happily oppressed. Though it got hardly a ripple in the critical columns, Sacha Baron Cohen's (vulgar but incessantly ribald) THE DICTATOR goes farther than any popular film (omitting the recent, much-criticized though unseen fraught "Mohammed video" trailer that may have spawned a reactive series of riots -- not) at lambasting the deficits and negatives of life in the Arab Middle East. Naughty, profane, hilarious -- but also prescient, no-holds-barred, and full of delicious ironies, DICTATOR is worth a gander, or a Netflix order, if you have....
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