From Anthony Lane's New Yorker review of Bruno:

You can’t honestly defend your principled lampooning of homophobia when nine out of every ten images that you project onscreen comply with the most threadbare cartoons of gay behavior. [full review]

Sasha Baron Cohen obviously did not consult my blackface use guidelines, which counsel near the end that any use of blackface that reruns an image or scene or trope from the existing repertoire of racism should be sent back to the drawing board for retuning.