The Laundromat: reviews

What the critics say average 5.7 from 6 outlets

• 8.0 VarietyOwen Gleiberman "In form, 'The Laundromat' is 'Traffic' lite, and it has a message that?s even more timely and important: The world ? our world ? is being looted." Read
• 6.5 La RazónSergi Sánchez "Speaking of Panama papers, 'The Laundromat' is more prosaic and less subtle, perhaps because, as Soderbergh said, it wants to be didactic but also entertaining." Read
• 5.5 El MundoLuis Martínez "It's a movie that, in its own way, replicate in the structure the same labyrinthine procedure of the explaining object. Anything goes: from transforming the screen into a 'power point' to skipping the fourth wall going through a happy celebration of chaos as close to comedy as tragedy." Read
• 5.0 FotogramasManu Yañez 'The Laundromat', a movie based on real facts, run out of steam when it stays away from its most charismatic character (played by Streep, Oldman and Banderas) and it gets distracted with episodes that exemplify the financial corruption's working progress at international level. Read
• 5.0 The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthy "Despite the filmmaker's obvious smarts and oft-proven skills, there's a kind of off-putting effrontery about Soderbergh's approach here that rather sours the whole experience. The tone is brittle, the attitude arch, the performances by a savvy and diverse cast uneven." Read
• 4.0 El PeriódicoNando Salvá "In any moment they stop neither breaking the fourth wall nor behave in a way that lies between comic and annoying. (...) The movie use 'Panama papers' as an excuse, and it ends treating viewers like fools." Read