![]() ![]() ![]() Celebrity cameos (from Margot Robbie, Anthony Bourdain and Selena Gomez, among others) are turned into miniseminars on the finer points of credit-default swaps and collateralized debt obligations. It wants not only to explain the financial crisis of 2008 - following the outline of Michael Lewis’s best-selling nonfiction book - but also to make the dry, complex abstractions of high finance exciting and fun. ![]() McKay and released in the midst of “Star Wars” advent season, the film sets itself a very tall order. Written by Adam McKay (“Anchorman,” “Anchorman 2”) and Charles Randolph, and directed by Mr. 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.
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