2019 · comedy · drama · satire
The Laundromat
Directed by Steven Soderbergh1h 36m2019
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.
Our read: The Laundromat (2019) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive comedy · drama · satire entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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