Cinema: Gervais gives a spirited performance

Having dipped his toe with punchy cameos in films such as For Your Consideration and Night at the Museum, television’s favourite creep Ricky Gervais makes his Hollywood debut as a lead in the spiky, but safely pasteurised, studio comedy . Ghost Town

Gervais plays the delightfully-named Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic, uptight dentist (is there any other kind in film?) who suffers through life desperate to avoid human contact. Bertram’s knotted bowels bring him ...