FLUNKY ‘TOWN’

Ricky Pic Parsimonious in Personality

The first in what is doubtless to be a large number of nearly-hollow films parading about as something greater during this awards season, the Ricky Gervais starrer “Ghost Town” is overly generous on the ghost and a little stingy with the town. Ostensibly a plebian rom com with a script-by-numbers storyline, the only redeeming quality here is the unflinching, perfect-pitched delivery of Gervais and the acerbic sardonicism he is working with. Fans of the Brit thesp will be amused, but most auds will find this ectoplasmic entertainment one step past redeeming.

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