Review: No one comes out clean in 'The Laundromat,' Steven Soderbergh's playful Panama Papers comedy
There are several movies packed into the brisk 95-minute spin cycle of "The Laundromat," none of them perfect but all of them interesting. On its surface a tonally arch, formally whimsical comedy about a bunch of desperate people in dire situations, Steven Soderbergh's latest swiftly launches the viewer on a globetrotting survey of the many varieties of financial fraud in the 21st century.
The teachers administering this barbed economics lecture are two smug but affable businessmen played by Antonio Banderas and Gary Oldman, wearing tuxedos that are nearly as colorful as the anecdotes and nuggets of insider wisdom they drop in our path. Their stories include a soapy melodrama of upper-upper-class mores, a secret assignation that becomes an assassination, and a
