As others have noted, this movie is in the vein of The Big Short, which did a great job of explaining, in a comedic way, certain complex financial machinations. By comparison, The Laundrymat falls completely flat, and each of its disjointed, meandering and muddled vignettes does as much to confuse (and in some cases misinform) laymen as it does to enlighten them about the nature of financial shenanigans revealed in the Panama Papers. Although I agree with the fundamental message of the movie, which in the end is delivered in the most heavy-handed manner I've ever witnessed in cinema (poor Meryl Streep), both the story-telling and the technical explanations are simply sophomoric. I almost never write a negative review. I love movies, I admire the actors in this movie, and I'm easy to please. But wow, this was bad. I had to speak out.
Review of The Laundromat
