The Big Short's reviews
Media reviews
New York Times
A true crime story and a madcap comedy, a heist movie and a scalding polemic, The Big Short will affirm your deepest cynicism about Wall Street while simultaneously restoring your faith in Hollywood.
Chicago Sun-Times
It?s impossible to fathom how writer-director Adam McKay has turned this material into one of the funniest and yet most sobering, not to mention one of the most entertaining movies of 2015.
Entertainment Weekly
I suppose you could call The Big Short a comedy. It?s very, very funny. But it?s also a tragedy. Behind every easy drive-by laugh is a sincere holler of outrage.
El Mundo
You can adapt a theory book and make it the most hilarious movie. (...) This is a cinematographic maze so delirious as precise. Don't doubt this is the best comedy in a while.
Los Angeles Times
The film packs in so much information and comedy, it would be fun to see it twice: not just to take in what it has to tell us, but also to laugh all over again.
Time
McKay approaches this adaptation of Michael Lewis? book with wit, energy and a surprising degree of clarity. But if the movie is a crackerjack entertainment, it?s one with a conscience.
Rolling Stone
A hell of a hilarious time at the movies if you're up for laughs that stick in your throat.
El País
Although I have my limitations, I followed 'The Big Short' with interest and I ended up getting the essential things. And they make me afraid. Its visual language has style aspirations, the stars are convincing, you believe them.
The Wrap
The film?s compassion for everyday Americans...along with its energetic determination to entertain, enlighten, and infuriate make it a laudable surprise.
Variety
There?s an unmistakable, scathing sense of outrage behind the whole endeavor, and it?s impossible not to admire McKay?s reckless willingness to do everything short of jumping through flaming hoops on a motorcycle while reading aloud from Keynes.
The Hollywood Reporter
On their own, individual scenes are effective enough in semi-farcically portraying the ignorance, avoidance and/or downright denial by the practitioners of bad loans. Together, however, they are wearying in their repetitive nature.
New York Post
At the end of it all comes McKay?s big angry harrumph about the meaning of the crisis ? a sign of failed, frustrated satire. If you can make your message clear through comedy, there?s no need to say, ?Here?s my moral.? A funnyman can?t afford to get caught wagging his finger.