The Laundromat

Name: The Laundromat
Genre: Drama, History, Comedy, Crime
Released: September 27, 2019
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 57
Cast: AJ Meijer, Alex Pettyfer, Antonio Banderas, Arsenio Castellanos, David Schwimmer

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Netflix | Release Date: September 27, 2019 | R

Starring: AJ Meijer, Alex Pettyfer, Antonio Banderas, Arsenio Castellanos, David Schwimmer, Gary Oldman, James Cromwell, Jane Morris, Jeff Michalski, Jeffrey Wright, Lucy Morningstar, Matthias Schoenaerts, Melissa Rauch, Meryl Streep, Robert Patrick, Rosalind Chao, Sharon Stone, Shoshana Bush, Will Forte

Summary: When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass even larger fortunes. TheWhen her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass even larger fortunes. The charming — and very well-dressed — founding partners Jürgen Mossack (Gary Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Antonio Banderas) are experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore accounts help the rich and powerful prosper. They are about to show us that Ellen's predicament only hints at the tax evasion, bribery and other illicit absurdities that the super wealthy indulge in to support the world's corrupt financial system. [Netflix]… Expand

Director: Steven Soderbergh

Genre(s): Drama, History, Comedy, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 95 min

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The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Sep 1, 2019

The Laundromat is an air-tight, tumultuous info-graph about our rotten to the core financial systems and, in particular, the 2016 Mossack and Fonseca leak, when millions of the Panamanian law firm’s files were anonymously leaked to the press. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Sep 1, 2019

Much of the movie is bitterly funny; some of it just amusingly droll. But the finale, a rallying cry that’s both galvanizing and wistful, is a wrap-up worth waiting for. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Oct 1, 2019

Soderbergh and Burns remain exceptionally well-matched collaborators. They’re after just enough human interest to make us care, and just enough socioeconomic outrage to make us seethe — some of us, anyway. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Sep 25, 2019

Soderbergh and his top-notch cast (Sharon Stone shows up, as do Jeffrey Wright and Matthias Schoenaerts) keep things lively, playing out parables of betrayal and deception with pulpy, TV-movie flair. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Oct 19, 2019

It’s Soderbergh’s shot at “The Big Short,” and it falls somewhat short. It’s convoluted, basically because it has to be. The story is necessarily episodic as the cast of characters is international and hard to pin down and connect. If you’re lost, you’re not alone. The evidence suggests Soderbergh and his screenwriter were, too. Read full review

Anthony Lane

Sep 23, 2019

How can a parable that set out to take the side of little people, versus gargantuan greed, end up using them as disposable comic fodder? Read full review

Alonso Duralde

Sep 1, 2019

The Laundromat flails about, with an excess of bad ideas that undercut the justifiable outrage over the events depicted. Read full review

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mbhiii

Sep 19, 2021

This film is about a complicated form of corruption degrading all our lives in varying degrees. Making that at all intelligible and even, to some extent, an enjoyable production, deserves the highest rating, in part for art, and the rest for raising consciences of those of us otherwise in the dark.