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Special Correspondents

2016

Ricky Gervais

Ricky Gervais, Eric Bana, Vera Farmiga, Benjamin Bratt ...

4.7

1,778

Comedy A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.

	Author	Review
United States	Nick Schager Variety	"Ricky Gervais has yet to find another role as perfectly suited to his caustic sensibilities as 'The Office' boss David Brent (...) ['Special Correspondents' is] an overly long, if passable diversion"	NEU
United States	Keith Uhlich The Hollywood Reporter	"It's never fun watching a comedian's shrewdness ossify into shtick. Yet whatever incisiveness Ricky Gervais once had (and he had plenty, if The Office and Extras are any indication) is barely evident in Special Correspondents"	NEG
United Kingdom	Graham Fuller Screendaily	"Perversely pleasurable, it works on its own self-conscious terms, though not all audiences will appreciate its English brand of sad-sack humour"	POS
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"If Ricky Gervais' amiable but utterly asinine new movie has anything new to say, it's that Netflix has a bit of a problem (...) To date, their feature-length original comedies have been hot garbage"	NEG
United States	Dan Callahan The Wrap	"Most of this listless Netflix comedy’s laughs come from a scene-stealing Vera Farmiga (...) a bland, toothless picture that isn’t particularly scathing and doesn’t have anything much to say"	NEU

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