This month, stay-at-home moviegoers can watch Sacha Baron Cohen be a political prankster who delights in provoking opponents into exposing their worst sides.
They can enjoy his career-best performance and marvel at the subtleties he finds in a character whose reputation has suffered from years of caricature.
Or they can watch his Borat sequel. The actor, in Aaron Sorkin's The Trial of the Chicago 7, finds the humanity, intelligence and soul under the public clowning of 1960s anti-war figure Abbie Hoffman.
In his new Borat, on the other hand, he makes his signature alter ego, who was always cartoonish but once had a compelling personality, something even less coherent.
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