Synopsis
When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin 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 larger fortunes.
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Cast
- Meryl StreepEllen Martin / Elena
- Gary OldmanJürgen Mossack
- Antonio BanderasRamón Fonseca
- Jeffrey WrightMalchus Irvin Boncamper
- Melissa RauchMelanie
- Jeff MichalskiNorm Sidley
- Jane MorrisBarb Sidley
- Robert PatrickCaptain Paris
- David SchwimmerMatthew Quirk
- Cristela AlonzoSpecial Agent Kilmer
Recommendations
- 83
The Film Stage
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. - 80
The Guardian
The film’s prize asset ... is Meryl Streep. - 80
Variety
The Laundromat is Soderbergh at his most playful, and also Soderbergh at his most wonkish, and damned, in this case, if the two don’t chime together. - 80
Time
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. - 75
IndieWire
The Laundromat may be blunt, and the humor hit-or-miss — but it swings wildly at a worthy target, and eventually hits its mark. - 75
The Playlist
Comparisons to Adam McKay‘s “The Big Short” and “Vice” are unavoidable. But though The Laundromat is similarly breezy, unsubtle, and disposable—it is not, we’d wager, one of the Soderbergh films that will best stand the test of time—it is still a better movie. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Despite 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. The tone is brittle, the attitude arch, the performances by a savvy and diverse cast uneven. - 45
Vanity Fair
The movie goes all over the place, attempting to map the world of this thing but really just chasing its idea into abstraction. Which is the opposite direction of where it should be going.
