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The Big Short
Directed by
Adam McKay
R
2015
2h 11m
Drama
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7.8
89%
88%
7.4
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Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, a group of investors bet against the US mortgage market and are stunned by the corruption they uncover through their research.
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Cast of The Big Short
Steve Carell
Mark Baum
Christian Bale
Michael Burry
Ryan Gosling
Jared Vennett
Brad Pitt
Ben Rickert / Producer
Marisa Tomei
Cynthia Baum
Melissa Leo
Georgia Hale
Hamish Linklater
Porter Collins
John Magaro
Charlie Geller
Rafe Spall
Danny Moses
Jeremy Strong
Vinny Daniel
Finn Wittrock
Jamie Shipley
Tracy Letts
Lawrence Fields
Byron Mann
Mr. Chau
Adepero Oduye
Kathy Tao
Karen Gillan
Evie
Max Greenfield
Mortgage Broker
Billy Magnussen
Mortgage Broker
Rudy Eisenzopf
Lewis Ranieri
Casey Groves
Fund Manager
Charlie Talbert
Lewis Bond Trader
The Big Short Ratings & Reviews
Reel Talk Online
Candice Frederick
... it wreaks of self-important pseudo-commentary that is more hollow and garishly humorous than it cares to admit.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
While The Big Short is hardly uplifting, it still manages to tell a rambunctiously funny tale that's as informative as it is entertaining, humor walking hand-in-hand with tragedy to ultimately craft a comedy that's impossible to dismiss.
Baltimore Magazine
Max Weiss
Adam McKay's The Big Short plays like an elaborate con, albeit one that uses its powers for good.
Flavorwire
Jason Bailey
An unlikely but oddly effective mixture of dark comedy, character study, based-on-a-true-story drama, rabble-rousing, and detective story.
Christianity Today
Alissa Wilkinson
As The Big Short goes on, it becomes progressively less funny and more depressing, mirroring the attitudes of the characters.
Film Comment Magazine
Harlan Jacobson
The Big Short is the truth-telling picture of the year. It puts beautifully shaded characters in guy comedy mode into an Altman-esque narrative, shot counter to type by Ken Loach's cinematographer, Barry Ackroyd.
Chicago Reader
Leah Pickett
McKay cowrote The Big Short's screenplay with Charles Randolph, and they know how to keep an audience engaged, broadcasting this knowledge often, as both parody and indictment.
Detroit News
Tom Long
The Big Short manages to be as enlightening as it is entertaining. But its ominous revelations linger long after it's over.
Boston Globe
Peter Keough
Thanks to Anchorman (2004) auteur Adam McKay's caustic comedy The Big Short, the events of the great economic meltdown of 2008 are beginning to make sense.
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The Big Short's conclusions are bleaker, more funereal than any I can recall from a popular entertainment - but at least it has the good humor to send us laughing all the way to the grave.
Dallas Morning News
Robert Wilonsky
The Big Short sticks in the throat. You laugh at it only because you can't believe it was this awful -- that people were (and are) this awful. It's the horror movie soundtracked with nervous, incredulous giggles wrung from the rot of the soul.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A film that winds up collapsing Marx's dictum to repeat recent history as tragedy and farce in one busy, bouncy ball. The effect is distracting, aggressive and, finally, psychically numbing.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Calvin Wilson
Far from being a dry economics lesson, "The Big Short" is an unsparing look at corporate skullduggery and its consequences - and the rare mainstream film with political bite.
Arizona Republic
Bill Goodykoontz
"The Big Short" manages to entertain you while making you really, really mad.
USA Today
Brian Truitt
McKay utilizes A-list talent and creative filmmaking to go with subprime rates and credit debt, though what it amounts to is the hyper-cool version of a boring economics lesson you slept through in college.
Seattle Times
Soren Andersen
See the movie. It's a treat. And educational, too.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Cary Darling
[It] works as a companion piece to 99 Homes, a film from this year about a laid-off construction worker...Both films capture the deep sense of desperation that comes with a financial crisis and the collateral damage that's left in its path.
Vox
Emily St. James
It's about something we think of as "boring," but it aims to code that boring story with the most exciting filmmaking techniques imaginable.
BuzzFeed News
Alison Willmore
Its excellent intentions are only undermined by how boring it really believes its subject matter to be.
Slate
Dana Stevens
One of the most appealing things about this very appealing movie -- a stylistic Chex Mix of storytelling, satire, advocacy, and clip art -- is its high regard for the intellect of the viewer.
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