
Empire Magazine
This is intentionally jagged but nevertheless frustrating, a little too self-satisfied for its own good. Yet there are some great moments and, when it relaxes a bit, it has charm to spare.
Full reviewOscar winners Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman lead this Panama Papers comedy-drama that sees director Steven Soderbergh expose the real-life tax avoidance/money laundering scandal. Co-stars Antonio Banderas, Sharon Stone, Matthias Schoenaerts and David Schwimmer.
This is intentionally jagged but nevertheless frustrating, a little too self-satisfied for its own good. Yet there are some great moments and, when it relaxes a bit, it has charm to spare.
Full reviewFor a movie about how awful the world is and how it got that way, "The Laundromat" is kind of a lark.
Full reviewThere's something indulgent about its many digressions, a dinner party guest yammering on and on rather than getting to the point.
Full reviewIt's like 'Titanic', only with 90 minutes of the iceberg regaling you with its ocean-liner-sinking skills while sipping a Mai Tai.
Full reviewDespite the filmmaker's obvious smarts and oft-proven skills, there's a kind of off-putting effrontery about Soderbergh's approach here that rather sours the whole experience.
Full reviewSoderbergh understands the importance of putting human faces to dry statistics. He reveals how the tentacles of financial misrule eventually extend to touch honest-to-God human lives.
Full reviewThe Laundromat is a fun ride while you're on it, but is probably a lesser entry into the director's esteemed personal canon.
Full reviewThe Laundromat is available to stream in Australia now on Netflix.
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