The Netflix show’s linking of cruelty and emotional healing is dubious at best.
Ricky Gervais’s film hopscotches through a variety of premises, looking for jokes that never arrive.
Mark Osborne’s The Little Prince reveals itself to be concerned with the blossoming of qualified idealism.
This third and supposedly final edition in the franchise is nothing more than an uncomfortably transparent contractual obligation.
Freed from the burden of starting anew, Muppets Most Wanted restores the Muppets’ rightful place as stars of their own show.
The Unbelievers isn’t as galvanizing as it would like to be.
With Derek, Ricky Gervais has fashioned a series that forces him to suppress his gift for sharp, curt verbal punchlines.
It’s hard to exhibit anything other than pity toward Escape from Planet Earth.
You really can’t miss the irony in the Killing Them Softly poster designs, as both of them are about as soft as a shell casing.
Despite its various flights of inspiration, The Ricky Gervais Show is too settled into a predictable groove.
Ricky Gervais’s career is beginning to feel a lot like the plot of a Ricky Gervais show.
The film is so plain-faced and literal-minded in its juvenile pandering that it’s hard to dismiss it as a mere cash-in.
It can be tricky to describe what distinguishes Louis C.K. from other stand-ups, even from those who specialize in observational, storytelling, confessional comedy.
Considering its tepid ratings and poisonous critical reception last winter, that a second season of The Marriage Ref exists is bewildering.
In some ways, the star of the show is neither Gervais nor Stephen Merchant.
The Invention of Lying sets its sights high before settling for comfortable lovey-dovey convention.
Director Shawn Levy remains unable to convey the type of grand, awe-inspiring scope and wonder that his material requires.
A standard stand-up special like this doesn’t need many perks in the audio-visual department and so HBO delivers a standard setup.
Ricky Gervais’s cutting bon mots and regular bouts of indignant stammering keep the film more dry and sharp than broad and squishy.
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