Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

The Laundromat
2019
**½
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, Robert Patrick, David Schwimmer, Rosalind Chao, Sharon Stone, James Cromwell,

This dark comedy tells three separate personal stories that centre around the actions of Mossack Fonseca, a Panamanian law firm that provided dubious offshore financial services until the company was exposed by the Panama Papers. After the likes of Ocean's Eleven, Out of Sight, and Logan Lucky, Steven Soderbergh doesn't really need to leave his comfort zone for this caper story. The movie is entertainingly informative, but the three story strands do not have equal pull. Just when I got invested in one set of characters, I was introduced to another set of characters. Scott Z. Burns scripted from Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein.