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The Big Short

2015

Adam McKay

Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, John Magaro ...

6.8

35,554

Drama. Comedy Three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing crisis of 2005 are told. Michael Burry, an eccentric ex-physician turned one-eyed Scion Capital hedge fund manager, has traded traditional office attire for shorts, bare feet and a Supercuts haircut. He believes that the US housing market is built on a bubble that will burst within the next few years. Autonomy within the company allows Burry to do largely as he pleases, so ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"While there is a certain undeniable fascination in watching [it] (...) you can never escape the thought that Paramount probably made this film only because of the success of 'The Wolf of Wall Street' (...) and then recall how much better made and more entertaining that was than what's onscreen here."	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A true crime story and a madcap comedy, a heist movie and a scalding polemic, 'The Big Short' will affirm your deepest cynicism about Wall Street while simultaneously restoring your faith in Hollywood"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The Big Short is brilliantly constructed by McKay to hit where it hurts (...) A slapstick tragedy that makes us wish we could see every character in it behind bars (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"A funny, energetic and self-aware film that manages to entertain without diluting the complications - or the gravity - of its subject matter"	POS
United States	Brian Truitt USA Today	"The subject matter is dry, but at least it’s made entertaining in director Adam McKay’s The Big Short (...) The hypercool version of a boring economics lesson you slept through in college (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Some movies contain one or two scenes you always think about when you think about that movie. With The Big Short, there are a dozen such scenes (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"There's an unmistakable, scathing sense of outrage behind the whole endeavor, and it's impossible not to admire McKay's reckless willingness."	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"A fine cast (...) guides this stupendously sour comedy-drama, as McKay manages to make dry economic terminology engrossing."	POS
United States	Charlie Schmidlin IndieWire	"'The Big Short' ends up an energetic, absorbing version of these events, marked deeply by its director’s uniquely surreal vision.	POS
United States	Inkoo Kang The Wrap	"An inventive and intellectual condemnation of Wall Street (...) 'The Big Short' will give you a headache, but in the best possible way."	POS

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