Gervais’s co-directorial debut starts out with an inherently funny premise (a world in which no one can lie) that is nicely sustained for roughly half the movie before it collapses beneath the weight of the thinly veiled anti-religion screed Gervais and co-writer/co-director Matthew Robinson suddenly heap on it. The film’s humorous portrait of unvarnished truth reminds us of how all of those little white lies, fudging, and convenient omissions make our lives so much easier, but the film ultimately wrecks on the shoals of condescending religious satire that is much weightier than the film can sustain. (Starplex 16, Waco, TX)