The latest collaboration between Steve Coogan and Michael Winterbottom is a sendup of hoarded wealth with a deficit of their usual wit
The actor Steve Coogan and the filmmaker Michael Winterbottom have collaborated on some very funny movies. My favorite is “The Trip,” from 2010, in which Mr.
Coogan and the comedian Rob Brydon, playing approximate versions of themselves, travel around England eating at fancy restaurants and riffing on celebrity voices. The latest Coogan-Winterbottom collaboration, “Greed,” is a grotesque sendup of megawealth: Mr. Coogan plays a discount-clothing tycoon, Sir Richard McCreadie, who rose through the ranks of the rag trade by thieving from his competitors. But the film isn’t funny at all. It’s so didactic and dislikable that...
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