Special Correspondents

  • 2016


MOVIE IS conventional depressing variety.perversely resoundingly
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Positive Reviews 6
Negative reviews 19
Average Rating 2.1/5
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2.0
But whatever point it might have is dulled by Gervais cursory direction and a shortage of real world overlap. Av Club
2.0
What Gervais may have previously turned into a pointed satire of the news media instead becomes a flimsy farce thats surprisingly low on laughs.C EW
1.9
Theres a great satire to be made about our modern interaction with journalists, and how gullible the American people can be when it comes to how repor .. Rogerebert
2.0
You can sense the effort that being meek and dull takes for Gervais, so its difficult to forget that, at all times, Ian feels like A Performance. Common Sense Media
2.0
For all its brilliant short form content, Netflix faces a dearth of good movies for its subscribers. Indie Wire
2.5
Gervais tale is primarily consumed with middle of the road squabbling between its headliners, whose yin yang chemistry never results in more than a fe .. Variety
1.5
Special Correspondents should fly by at a breezy 100 minutes but a lack of funny jokes, stylistic edge and scathing satire sees it plod along for what .. We Got This Covered
2.0
These have been brutally minimised by commercial and generic considerations; its all gooey oyster and no grit, and the romcom element is cumbersome. The Guardian
1.9
Capras film is cheesy and shameless, but it hits its targets with naive ferocity.
2.5
Yet Gervais is too smart an ironist not to have calculated that he was making a smile wanly comedy rather than the laugh out loud variety.Perversely p .. Screen Daily
1.5
The premise has promise, yet in execution its resoundingly unfunny. The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
Maybe youve been waiting for Ricky Gervais to write and direct a completely conventional comedy, the kind that begins with slow motion nighttime pans .. The New York Times
3.5
Similar false reports are the stuff of Evelyn Waughs comic newspaper novel Scoop.
3.1
Instead of being paced like a screwball farce, Correspondents mostly just shuffles along for about an hour and a half. San Francisco Chronicle
2.0
Special Correspondents is like a mish mash of some great ideas that go absolutely nowhere. The Young Folks
1.5
Unfortunately, Special Correspondents doesnt stem the tide of mediocrity from Ricky Gervais. Cinema Blend
3.5
When Bonneville and Finch lose their passports and miss their flight to an assignment in Ecuador, they hole up in an apartment across from the radio s .. Ny Daily News
1.3
Suspension of disbelief is maybe the most important ingredient in drama on film, stage or TV.We need to believe the characters, the situations, in ord .. Rogers Movie Nation
2.0
The film is a comedy and it is the second film to this year to poke fun at the desperately dangerous job of being a war correspondent. Independent
1.5
It cant possibly be something as tired and unoriginal as it appears, can it Hindustan Times
3.0
Ricky Gervais and Eric Bana are decent fun in this pleasant but not overly memorable little flick. Smh
2.5
If Special Correspondents has one prominent problem aside from running out of gas before the finish line it is that no one player in the cast is prepa .. Herald Sun
3.0
Special Correspondents is so devoid of more meaningful commentary that its practically headless. Consequence Of Sound
1.0
A ridiculous comedy film that may well rank as the lamest thing Ricky Gervais has put his name to. Lw Lies
3.0
Likewise, movies that tick off all the genre boxes dont have to be dull and conventional. Straits Times
2.0
But a failed one is more depressing than the saddest indie drama. Flavor Wire
2.5
Special Correspondents keeps coming up with big ideas, then taking them to undersized ends. The Verge
1.0
Special Correspondents is also about as anonymous as a feature can look; Netflix seems to have inadvertently made its first made for TV movie. M Tv
2.0
Gervais has missed the mark again with Special Correspondents, a lacklustre comedy thats big on absurdity but surprisingly low on laughs. Fan The Fire Magazine
1.5
The entire production seems like a half hour comedy special that got stretched out to feature length. Yahoo



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