Netflix adds quite a few movies this week, including a new Netflix Original starring Meryl Streep.
âThe Laundromatâ debuts on Oct. 18 and features Streep in a bucket hat, along with a long list of other prominent actors. Steven Soderbergh (who released âHigh Flying Birdâ on Netflix earlier this year) directed the movie. You can read more about âThe Laundromatâ and watch the trailer below.
The entire list of movies joining Netflix this week is at the bottom of this article, but I also wanted to mention up top the arrival of âThe Karate Kidâ and âMen in Black.â Those would be a good nostalgia double feature for kids of the â90s.
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Details: While on a boating vacation at Lake George, New York, a woman (Meryl Streep) stumbles into a case of insurance fraud that personally puts her in a financial bind. Determined to figure out what happened, Streepâs character uncovers a global financial scheme that involves prominent political figures. The story is loosely based on the Panama Papers scandal from 2016 that revealed rampant offshore money laundering.
Antonio Banderas, Gary Oldman, David Schwimmer, Sharon Stone, Meryl Streep and Jeffrey Wright star. Steven Soderbergh directed.
âThe Laundromatâ runs 1 hour, 35 minutes.
Read on: In the Chicago Sun-Times, Richard Roeper compared the movie to âThe Big Short,â using the juxtaposition to explain what âThe Laundromatâ wants to do, and somewhat fails to deliver. Hereâs the opening of his review:
One of the things I loved about âThe Big Shortâ was the consistently creative ways in which the film explained the intricacies of the financial crisis of 2007-08.
Every once in a while, theyâd break the Fourth Wall, and weâd come away from the scene thinking, for example: Ah, so THATâS how a subprime mortgage works. Thanks, Margot Robbie!
Steven Soderberghâs âThe Laundromatâ employs similar techniques in an effort to shed some light on (and assign blame for) the machinations behind the Panama Papers insurance scandal.
Alas, by the time everything comes out in the wash, so to speak, weâve been overwhelmed by a dizzying array of tricked-out visuals and stylized sequences, with the end result being a muddled, meandering, hit-and-miss social satire and political commentary thatâs too heavy on the latter category and often lacking in the former.
Trailer:
The Full List Of Movies Joining Netflix
Oct. 15
- âDark Crimesâ
Oct. 16
- âSinister 2â
Oct. 17
- âThe Karate Kidâ
Oct. 18
- âEliâ (Netflix Film)
- âThe Laundromatâ (Netflix Film)
- âSeventeenâ (Netflix Film)
- âUpstartsâ (Netflix Film)
Oct. 19
- âMen in Blackâ