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By Kevin P. Sullivan (44) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 27 Apr 2016

What Gervais may have previously turned into a pointed satire of the news media instead becomes a flimsy farce that’s surprisingly low on laughs…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 27 Apr 2016

The more Special Correspondents skirts bad taste — by having the heroes record an ISIS-inspired ransom tape, for instance — the closer…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for Guardian (4,584) on 27 Apr 2016

Special Correspondents shows that Gervais has a plausible Hollywood career, but there’s a baffling lack of real laughs and performance chemistry…

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By Mike Hale (131) for The New York Times (9,847) on 27 Apr 2016

There’s nothing wrong with the type of movie Special Correspondents wants to be. The problem is that Mr…

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By Matilda Battersby (1) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 27 Apr 2016

The film, which Gervais both wrote, directed and starred in, is notable for taking the proverbial out of both stereotypes while following,…

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By Sonia Saraiya (10) for Salon.com (2,725) on 27 Apr 2016

Let me be clear: Nothing about Special Correspondents is relevant or interesting about media, warfare, or human nature…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 26 Apr 2016

Some viewers may be surprised by how good Bana is doing comedy…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 26 Apr 2016

Ricky Gervais's film hopscotches through a variety of premises, looking for jokes that never arrive…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 25 Apr 2016

Gervias's script is a lumpy mess, filled with clumsy exposition and turns that are either frustratingly inexplicable or irritatingly predictable…

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By Graham Fuller (154) for Screen International (2,241) on 24 Apr 2016

Perversely pleasurable, it works on its own self-conscious terms, though not all audiences will appreciate its English brand of sad-sack humour…

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By Dan Callahan (211) for TheWrap (3,203) on 21 Apr 2016

[Gervais] abandons all sharp edges and serves up a bland, toothless picture that isn’t particularly scathing and doesn’t have anything…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Apr 2016

Gervais’ tale is primarily consumed with middle-of-the-road squabbling between its headliners, whose yin-yang chemistry never results in…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for Indiewire (3,631) on 21 Apr 2016

Special Correspondents is more about smirking sideways than it is laughing out loud, but it doesn't provoke much of either — it's one thing…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 21 Apr 2016

It's never fun watching a comedian's shrewdness ossify into shtick…

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