"This is a fatuous show with nothing fresh to say about popular culture and our fixation with fame, " his one-star write-up continued.

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Coogan, who is a gifted physical comic, does an outstanding job playing a fatuous, slightly naughtier version of himself, and Winterbottom focusses on other characters only as part of his orbit, including a Fassbinder-loving P.

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Mr James does not predict a new depression (there are no fatuous forecasts here), but he denies that you need a global war to get one.

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That always fatuous illusion is about to get a grim, public testing.

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On its face it was fatuous given that Galant's behavior constituted an administrative offense for which one pays a fine, rather than a criminal offense for which one goes to jail.

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At that point she becomes an obsessive organizer of the search, and a compulsive scourge of anyone who threatens to stand in her way. (One fatuous Pakistani functionary insists that the abduction is an Indian plot.) Given Angelina Jolie's celebrity, the obvious danger in such a take-no-prisoners style of acting was imposing herself on the real-life story, but that hasn't happened.

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