Streep as Ellen is also wonderful, and only gets more fun to watch the closer her unassuming, middle-aged character gets to unraveling the machinations of the unfathomably rich.

| Oct 21, 2019

Soderbergh keeps the heavy themes light and even playful, and Streep rides the film's sardonic wave in a double role that sees her donning a garish disguise as a Panamanian office worker.

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2019

The Laundromat is unwieldy at times, and its final scene is truly befuddling. But it's worth watching not just for its bitterly entertaining explanation of a densely confusing matter but also the way it illustrates a larger problem.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2019

A disappointment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2019

While there are certainly elements here that disappoint, there's also a sense of Burns and Soderbergh applying themselves to a potentially impossible challenge.

| Oct 17, 2019

Soderbergh knows how to entice us into paying attention, and entertain us until we are willing to think.

| Original Score: A- | Oct 11, 2019

An intriguingly interpretive if scattershot and tonally uneven attempt to deconstruct the financial and legal arcana contained in the massive data-dump known as the Panama Papers.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2019

Does it work? Enough for an evening's diversion... but not enough to get you good and mad, the way you should and the filmmakers intend.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 9, 2019

Steven Soderbergh's social satire mashes up multiple stories of various tones, but they never become a cohesive package.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 5, 2019

A really fascinating movie that is perplexing and sometimes irritating and uneven to watch, but I really like how it came together in the end.

| Oct 4, 2019

Soderbergh's bigger mistake is coming to The Laundromat with a message, but forgetting to make the film.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 3, 2019

Soderbergh and Burns remain exceptionally well-matched collaborators. They're after just enough human interest to make us care, and just enough socioeconomic outrage to make us seethe - some of us, anyway.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 3, 2019

If a motley crew of movie stars is what it takes to shine more light on government malfeasance, then let Meryl carry that torch in a wig and a bucket hat.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 3, 2019

"The Laundromat" finds director Steven Soderbergh in a playful mood, but this time he's a little too playful, and the result is a scattered and seemingly trivial movie about a serious subject...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 2, 2019

This new film, alas, needed a director with a steadier focus and less ambition. More coherence, less dazzle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 28, 2019

The topic is fascinating, the cast top-flight, but it's a jumble - the narrative underdeveloped, sudsy and unsatisfying.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2019

It's entirely possible to share the movie's political concerns and even outrage over the practices on display and still resent being beaten over the head with the message.

| Sep 27, 2019

Labored in parts but... as a whole, sensationally valuable.

| Sep 27, 2019

Like the film he made, the director is compromised.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 26, 2019

I've just watched a 96-minute op-ed.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 26, 2019