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The Laundromat (2019)

Comedy | 96 minutes
2,81 311 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 96 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Steven Soderbergh

Stars: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas

IMDb score: 6,3 (57.487)

Releasedate: 27 September 2019

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The Laundromat plot

"Based on actual secrets"

Ellen Martin's honeymoon ends in a nightmare. As if that weren't enough, she finds herself in a shadowy financial construction that can be traced back to Jürgen Mossack and Ramón Fonseca's law firm in Panama. Ellen discovers that her case is just one of many instances where off-shore trust companies are ruining ordinary people's lives in order to evade taxes on the rich and powerful.

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Rvdz

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As if Soderbergh saw Vice (2018) and took that as a challenge or to make something similar but even cuter, unbearable. How Meryl Streep as a cartoon Panamanian ever got the green light is a mystery to me. The same goes for Oldman's insanely bad Christoph Waltz impersonation. The best man is already far from my favorite director, but it really reaches a new low.

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mjk87 (moderator films)

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Soderbergh tries to make a kind of Big Short to bring difficult matter in an easy way through a central story and breaking the fourth wall, but he largely fails in this. This is partly because this is loose sand and Soderbergh mainly wants to tell a lot, but in retrospect says little, because except for generalities, little is told here, there is something new. I also wonder if anyone unfamiliar with this little world at the end knows exactly how that whole system worked. So much more could have been done with this. In addition, director McKay used the fourth wall very effectively in The Big Short, by using metaphors for the material in an inventive and clear way. Soderbergh only lets two men in nice suits talk a bit but does nothing with it. And that too in a kind of popular tone that doesn't quite succeed. And then in between, such an annoying Meryl Streep.

That doesn't mean I didn't have a good time. The pace is good, the single short stories are often very nice to watch (I thought the cheating African was a highlight) and visually it is very well put together. So fine as a piece of viewing material and just fun to watch, as a treatise on The Panama Papers a very thin beast. 3.0*.

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IH88

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“Bad? Bad is such a big word, for being such a small word.”

Friendly. The Laundromat is a colorful and exciting film about a serious subject. Films like The Big Short and Vice have shown how well that can work out, and Soderbergh has also assembled the perfect cast with actors such as Oldman, Streep, Banderas, Wright, Stone and Patrick. The film has a serious tone at times, but especially the scenes with Oldman and Banderas provide the necessary comic intermezzos. The biggest flaw of The Laundromat is that the film never gets really funny, and the serious moments don't impress either. It's neither fish nor meat, and a movie like The Big Short did it better.

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