The Big Short

2015 Directed by Adam McKay

This is a true story.

The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

Christian Bale Steve Carell Ryan Gosling Brad Pitt Melissa Leo Hamish Linklater John Magaro Rafe Spall Jeremy Strong Finn Wittrock Marisa Tomei Tracy Letts Byron Mann Adepero Oduye Karen Gillan Max Greenfield Billy Magnussen Rudy Eisenzopf Casey Groves Charlie Talbert Harold Gervais Maria Frangos Hunter Burke Bernard Hocke Shauna Rappold Brandon Stacy Aiden Flowers Peter Epstein Anthony Marble Show All…

Alternative Titles

The Big Short : le Casse du siècle, 빅쇼트, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine

comedy drama

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Review by Filmspotting ★★★★★ 18

Five stars? Yeah, five stars. Call me Standard & Poor's because I'm just tossing out AAA ratings.
A (frequently hilarious) crime movie where the American economy is the corpse, the entire financial system is the culprit, and the detectives all have bets on the body dropping.
But for the bearish take, you can hear Josh try to rain on my Adam McKay party on Filmspotting #566.
Review by davidehrlich ★★½ 10

i liked so much of what this film is about, and so little of how it's about it.
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 30

I've watched this film seven times in the last two weeks.
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 15

It absolutely does hold its audience's hand throughout the entire thing, like an overprotective father, and spoon-feeds us information like mothers performing the old airplane trick with their newborn infants -- but that's just part of the social commentary.
I love the borderline-self-parody aspect, for lack of a better word (always undercutting the seriousness of the situation with surrealist comedy until the third act strikes like a gavel and leaves you breathless), and the sendup of contemporary media techniques, e.g. the "cameos" relative to the way the masses consume their information.
But if you consider yourself an intelligent person and someone who, regardless of intentions, doesn’t need to be treated like a child (even for the sake of satire), then…
Review by Eli Hayes ★★★★★ 23

we're all such fucking fools.
Review by willa ★★ 5

director: hey just spit on this, vomit on it, shit on it, burn it, put it through a paper shredder, run over it with your car,
editor: yea no problem

Recent reviews

Review by CannibalTriangl ★★★★½

Every time I watch this movie I become even more impressed by what is able to do. I know some people hate the style and flash of it all but 85% of those people wouldn't understand any of the housing crisis without this movie either.
Review by Hunter Holenski ★★★★

Very funny and good
Review by JoseLingo ★★★★★

Took me very long and many viewings to understand 20% of what they are talking about
Review by begum ★★★★

margot robbie and selena gomez explaining complex financial terms is my new kink
Review by Ben ★★

wanky wanky word word money money word word shut the fuck up i cant understand you
Review by michaelfurness ★★★★½

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Review by dromoman ★★★★

'While the whole world was having a big old party, a few weirdos and outsiders saw what no one else could.' These people got rich from the biggest financial fraud of the 20th century by betting on the other side...they are no heroes. THEYhey are not exactly underdogs either.But what I liked is that this movie talks about 'courage' to act on your beliefs in a world full of crowd-pleasers and dishonest followers.
Review by sneh ★★★½

ryan gosling, christian bale, steve carell and brad pitt are in this
Review by Cinema Explosion! ★★★★½

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