Sentence:  Baron Cohen and director Larry Charles have indeed retreated with The Dictator, but they've gone back 80 years, when the Marx Brothers were given <WSD>carte blanche</WSD> at Paramount Pictures with a five-movie run that ended with their best movie, 1933's Duck Soup. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Unlimited discretionary power to act; unrestricted authority.