'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'

You will laugh at "Borat," you really will, but the laughter will sometimes stick in your throat. This is partially intentional — "Borat's" fiendish brand of subversive social commentary comes with an ironclad shock-and-offend guarantee — but partially not.

By Kenneth Turan

November 3, 2006