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Years before the financial crisis of 2008, early rumblings are detected by Michael Burry (Christian Bale), whose investment skills are in sharp contrast to his social unease. Unlike most of his peers, he spies the cracks in the housing market and wagers that, before too long, it will all come tumbling down. Word of his gamble inspires a few more players to take the plunge, including a miserable hedge-fund manager (Steve Carell), a pair of greenhorns from out of town (John Magaro and Finn Wittrock), and our sly narrator (Ryan Gosling), who works at Deutsche Bank. These are just some of the unlovely figures who pace back and forth through Adam McKay’s new film, based on the nonfiction book by Michael Lewis. The movie pops and fizzes with invention, and even takes time out, now and then, to educate—screeching to a halt and summoning a celebrity (Selena Gomez, say, or Margot Robbie) to steer us through the economic verbiage. Everything you always wanted to know about credit-default swaps but were afraid to ask: it’s all here. So winning are these tactics, and so cheerfully headlong is the mood, that we’re hardly aware of rooting for a bunch of utter cynics who are poised to make tens of millions of dollars from the misfortunes of others.
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# The Big Short
By [Anthony Lane](https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/anthony-lane)
February 11, 2016
Years before the financial crisis of 2008, early rumblings are detected by Michael Burry (Christian Bale), whose investment skills are in sharp contrast to his social unease. Unlike most of his peers, he spies the cracks in the housing market and wagers that, before too long, it will all come tumbling down. Word of his gamble inspires a few more players to take the plunge, including a miserable hedge-fund manager (Steve Carell), a pair of greenhorns from out of town (John Magaro and Finn Wittrock), and our sly narrator (Ryan Gosling), who works at Deutsche Bank. These are just some of the unlovely figures who pace back and forth through Adam McKay’s new film, based on the nonfiction book by Michael Lewis. The movie pops and fizzes with invention, and even takes time out, now and then, to educate—screeching to a halt and summoning a celebrity (Selena Gomez, say, or Margot Robbie) to steer us through the economic verbiage. Everything you always wanted to know about credit-default swaps but were afraid to ask: it’s all here. So winning are these tactics, and so cheerfully headlong is the mood, that we’re hardly aware of rooting for a bunch of utter cynics who are poised to make tens of millions of dollars from the misfortunes of others.*(In wide release.)*
Published in the print edition of the [February 22, 2016](https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22), issue.
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| Readable Markdown | February 11, 2016
Years before the financial crisis of 2008, early rumblings are detected by Michael Burry (Christian Bale), whose investment skills are in sharp contrast to his social unease. Unlike most of his peers, he spies the cracks in the housing market and wagers that, before too long, it will all come tumbling down. Word of his gamble inspires a few more players to take the plunge, including a miserable hedge-fund manager (Steve Carell), a pair of greenhorns from out of town (John Magaro and Finn Wittrock), and our sly narrator (Ryan Gosling), who works at Deutsche Bank. These are just some of the unlovely figures who pace back and forth through Adam McKay’s new film, based on the nonfiction book by Michael Lewis. The movie pops and fizzes with invention, and even takes time out, now and then, to educate—screeching to a halt and summoning a celebrity (Selena Gomez, say, or Margot Robbie) to steer us through the economic verbiage. Everything you always wanted to know about credit-default swaps but were afraid to ask: it’s all here. So winning are these tactics, and so cheerfully headlong is the mood, that we’re hardly aware of rooting for a bunch of utter cynics who are poised to make tens of millions of dollars from the misfortunes of others.*(In wide release.)* |
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