Critic Reviews

• Guy Lodge, Time Out

  At once moving and mortifying, it carries the distinctly un-Gallic scent of the best episodes of 'The Office'.

• Jordan Mintzer, Hollywood Reporter

  Never much more than an extended sketch comedy whose longer segments tend to wear out their welcome.

• Graham Young, Birmingham Post

  The shallowness of people who live this way is as dispiriting as the action is meant to be titillating.

• Alan Jones, Radio Times

  A vulgar, variable and very French take on infidelity.

• Emma Dibdin, Digital Spy

  While there's undeniably a streak of misogyny at its center by virtue of its flippantly unfaithful characters, there's also a healthy dose of equal contempt for them...

• Emma Simmonds, The List

  While not quite funny enough to cut it as pure comedy, nor emotionally probing enough to be a great drama, The Players is still a pleasingly frank and, at times, guiltily daft take on a very sticky subject.

• Jason Solomons, Observer [UK]

  I was forced to wonder: were the talkies really invented so we could listen to Dujardin beating off in a lonely motel room?

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  A largely unfunny, deeply misogynistic and occasionally embarrassingly poor taste comedy.

• Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

  A series of pointless, boorish skits about two unrepentant lotharios.

• Alex Zane, Sun Online

  Dujardin has charm but the script he co-wrote is crude.

• Christopher Tookey, Daily Mail [UK]

  An embarrassing misfire.

• Henry Barnes, Guardian [UK]

  Stick out the glaringly unfunny prologue and you'll see the former George Valentin come good, with Dujardin and co-star Gilles Lellouche assuming a series of roles that see past the sex and explore men's impulse to cheat.

• Nigel Andrews, Financial Times

  If The Players achieves little else, it proves that Dujardin can extend his range well beyond the boulevard smirk and the Brylcreemed charm.

• Bethany Rutter, Little White Lies

  Vile.

• Henry Fitzherbert, Daily Express

  An explicit comedy drama about infidelity comprising nine short films.

• David Hughes, Empire Magazine

  Often funny, outrageously vulgar in places and very, very French.

• Tom Dawson, Total Film

  Greater female input might have alleviated the film's tiresome chauvinism.

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