By MICK LASALLE, FILM WRITEROct 1, 2009 Jennifer Garner and Ricky Gervais star in The Invention of Lying.Sam Urdank/Warner Bros.

Now, to judge from Mr. Gervais's new film, The Invention of Lying, he has had to pay the price of working in the American film industry by pre-emptively sentimentalizing another loser who might ...

"The Invention of Lying" Movie Review-- Imagine a parallel universe in which everyone is literally incapable of telling an untruth, bragging about a nonexistent triumph, flattering a bad boss or ...

A man (Ricky Gervais) living in an alternate reality where “deceit, flattery and fiction” are unknown discovers the uses and pitfalls of untruths in the comedy/romance “The Invention of ...

One of the best comedy scripts I've read in the past 12 months was for The Invention of Lying, the new Ricky Gervais movie which will premiere two trailers online today at Yahoo Movi es. According ...

"The Invention of Lying" takes on even bigger subjects -- a portion of the movie is essentially a thumbnail sketch of all the things that continually hang us up about God and religion -- but even ...

The Invention of Lying — Film Review The first half-hour of "The Invention of Lying," co-directed and co-written by Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson, is so sharply fresh, clever and laugh-out ...

The Invention of Lying quickly dispenses with the obvious (gorgeous women as easy pickings) before arriving at its most provocative subject: the birth of religion.

While it never tops the explosive hilarity of its first 20 minutes, “The Invention of Lying” is a smartly written, nicely layered comedy that, like last year’s underappreciated “Ghost Town ...

Everything you need to know about The Invention of Lying.

While it never tops the explosive hilarity of its first 20 minutes, “The Invention of Lying” is a smartly written, nicely layered comedy that, like last year’s underappreciated “Ghost Town ...