Brüno

After Borat, Sacha Baron Cohen returns as Brüno, a flamboyant gay Austrian fashion reporter who arrives in America hoping to make it big. During his travels, Brüno adopts an African baby, prances around Jerusalem in hotpants on a mission to bring peace to the Middle East, and goes hunting with a bunch of rednecks.

Nigel Andrews, Financial Times: At best the film is not just good comedy, it is dedicated and illuminating social observation. You have to applaud, or at least admire, the comedian's missionary nerve, when Cohen/Brüno joins three redneck hunters for a night of bear tracking and a campfire group-shot shows his companions pierced to the quick of their machismo when their supposed fellow meathead starts to ramp up his gay talk. (Verdict: four stars out of five)

Wendy Ide, the Times: But is he exposing the deep-seated homophobia in US society? Or demonstrating the perfectly reasonable resistance most people would feel when confronted by a screeching pillock in an assless unitard? To argue the former, you would have to accept Brüno as representative of the gay community as a whole and that, tragically for the manufacturers of assless unitards, is just not the case. (Verdict: three stars out of five)

David Calhoun, Time Out: Brüno is a mesmerising invention, by turns repulsive and compelling. His exploits, from becoming an extra on US TV show Medium to taking a bunch of rednecks hunting, zero in on fair if easy targets, whether that's homophobic hetero America or the celebrity world, for which Brüno is a global ambassador. (Verdict: three stars out of five) ·