BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN [****] (Four stars)

At least twice as funny as all of Hollywood’s comedies this year combined, this brilliant and scaldingly hilarious mock documentary follows an ignorant, misogynistic, homophobic, anti-Semitic and strangely likable Kazakh TV personality (a stunning Sacha Baron Cohen) as he travels across America – and encounters many who share his un-PC attitudes. Often shocking, but you’ve never laughed so hard.

(1 hr 24) R. (graphic nudity and crude sexual humor, profanity) 3, 6, 14, 19, 31, 33, 39