The Laundromat

[wilder]

Based on the true events surrounding the uncovering of the global Panama Papers scandal, the film shows Mossack and his legal partner Ramón Fonseca (Antonio Banderas) as experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore accounts help the rich and powerful prosper. They are about to show us that the predicament of one tourist, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) only hints at the tax evasion, bribery and other illicit absurdities that the super wealthy indulge in to support the world's corrupt financial system.

The pic zips through comic detours in China, Mexico, Africa (via Los Angeles) and the Caribbean en route to Martin inadvertently stumbling on what became the 2016 publication of the Panama Papers — where journalists revealed the secret, leaked documents of Mossack Fonseca's high-profile global patrons.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh
Release Date - Theatrical on September 27, on Netflix October 18

[samsong]

compulsively watchable but very mediocre.  soderbergh doing adam mckay of all people?  gary oldman is hysterical and meryl is good, but my god, the ending is cringey as shit.