Critics Mixed in Final Reviews of Ricky Gervais' Golden Globes

4:06 PM PST 1/17/2011 by Lindsay Powers

One called him a "bully," another says the show became "lethally dull" when he disappeared the second half.

Ricky Gervais incensed the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (president Philip Berk told The Hollywood Reporter his jabs "definitely crossed the line," Robert Downey Jr. called him "mean spirited") and hardly raised ratings -- but what did the critics think?