The Jeffery Epstein Movie
As has been and forever will be, filmmaking is more alchemy than chemistry. The Laundromat is proof.
A hugely important and underserviced subject (the Panama Papers) gets tackled by one of the best modern directors (Steven Soderbergh) and arguably the greatest actress of all time (Meryl Streep). Yet, somehow, the end result is just-ever-so-barely on the right side of okay. As beloved fictional theologian and philosopher Mike LaFontaine (Fred Willard) once mournfully contemplated in A Mighty Wind: “Wha happened?”