Film
The Laundromat
- Director
- Steven Soderbergh
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 95 mins
Another of those Netflix features that are being granted the briefest of cinema releases before being made available to subscribers, Steven Soderbergh‘s take on the Panama Papers scandal has obvious appeal to anyone who enjoyed Adam McKay’s The Big Short or Vice.
“Based on actual secrets” and adapted from a book by Jake Bernstein, The Laundromat sets out to have fun with the financial crisis through the story of widow Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep). Her investigation into a fake insurance policy leads her to the flamboyantly dressed Jürgen Mossack (Gary Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Antonio Banderas), whose Panama City law film assists the obscenely wealthy in becoming even more so. Fesitval reviews were mixed, with some critics objecting to the sudden lurches of tone, but Soderbergh certainly succeeds in bringing this potentially dry material to life.
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