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By Morninstar (8) on 10 Mar 2016

Great movie, goes to show comedians can really show the world a mirror when they want to…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 16 Jan 2016

By adhering to the romantic-comedy formula, The Invention of Lying stops short of being truly inventive…

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By Matt G (2,017) on 02 Oct 2015

Hi, I'm Bob I'm the spokesperson for the Coca-Cola company. I'm here today to ask you to continue buying coke…

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By Alex T (1,057) on 31 Aug 2015

A very clever well written movie. I really enjoyed it…

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By Michael Sragow (1,413) for Baltimore Sun (1,823) on 28 Jul 2015

The cascade of ideas proves to be both pleasurable and frustrating…

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By Jose C (734) on 26 Jul 2015

* Interesting concept for a film but isnt really carried out to its fullest potential…

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By Claigh Y (93) on 26 Jul 2015

* Interesting concept for a film but isnt really carried out to its fullest potential…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 17 Jul 2015

However cheeky and blasphemous, this is, at heart, a rather sweet little fable. Which of course would mean nothing if it weren’t explosively funny…

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By Lauri A (31) on 10 Jun 2015

Basically the moral is that lying is good since the main character never learns a lesson from his experience…

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By Freddie K (160) on 10 Jun 2015

Basically the moral is that lying is good since the main character never learns a lesson from his experience…

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By Trilobiteg (130) on 18 May 2015

A low point for Ricky Gervais…

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By Jeannie H (35) on 08 May 2015

I understand the never being able to tell a lie thing, but where is the keep your mouth closed if you have nothing nice to say thing…

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By Phil S (666) on 30 Apr 2015

Pretty shit to be honest. I see what it's getting at, but it's so clunky and hammy it just doesn't work…

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By John O (1,007) on 26 Apr 2015

The film did have some pretty funny moments and Ricky Gervais' performance was really good actually…

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By Drlowdon (322) on 11 Jan 2015

The Invention of Lying has an interesting central concept and an all star cast but never seems quite sure of the type of movie it wants to…

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By Adrian V (163) on 01 Jan 2015

An interesting idea no doubt, but its one of those ideas that cannot sustain and make sense for a film…

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By Semmi A (83) on 26 Dec 2014

Part of the deal of living on Earth is NOT knowing what happens when you die…

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By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Dec 2014

Gervais and Robinson take what might have been a cute concept comedy and elevate it to delicious heights…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 13 Nov 2014

For its first stingingly funny half hour, The Invention of Lying had me thinking that Ricky Gervais had finally found a way to bring his indisputable…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Nov 2014

Like Gervais, the audience wants to see a struggle, which here comes down to whether unvarnished honesty or random acts of compassionate deceit…

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