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Metascore
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positive
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Brilliant, over-the-edge concert film Notorious C.H.O. carries candid sexual humor into previously uncharted territory.
90
Cho's weapons are a wildly imaginative sense of humor and the courage to be absolutely uninhibited.
88
Her face is as much a part of her comedic form as her observations are. It's an amazing slapstick instrument, creating a scrapbook of living mug shots.
80
When she unabashedly puts herself in the same category as Richard Pryor (the master of identity politics and cultural reportage), it's not just presumptuous posturing on her part. She's earned her place there.
80
Politically charged music to the ears of Cho's fans.
80
Filmed by director Lorene Machado on direct video, it's a visually primitive affair. But you're not likely to care, given the chance to witness Cho's often incisive, but never hectoring, take on life as she's lived and observed it.
80
A raunchy and frequently hilarious follow-up to the gifted Korean American stand-up's "I'm the One That I Want."
75
Cho is funnier — and raunchier — in this, her second concert film, than in 2000's "I'm the One That I Want," even if she doesn't break any new comedic ground.
75
Establishes the comedian as just that: notorious -- in all the best ways outlaw comedy can make you a star.
70
By the end, it should be perfectly clear just why Cho is so loved by so many different types of people. Raunchy though her material is, it embraces all comers, regardless of gender, sexuality, race or ethnicity. And it's never been sharper — or funnier — than it is here.
