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The Big Short

2015 · Comedy · Adam McKay · 2h 10m

A handful of investors work out that the American housing market is built on bad loans and bet against it, while everyone tells them they are wrong. Fast and jokey, and it stops to explain the finance.

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  • Clearly fast

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    Describe: City of God

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    The Boston Globe's investigations desk works a story about abuse in the Catholic church, and keeps finding it is bigger than the last version of it. Mostly documents, doorsteps and phone calls.

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    Describe: Spotlight

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  • The Departed

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    A young cop goes undercover inside a Boston crime boss's crew while one of the boss's own men rises through the state police, and each side works out there is a rat. It is long, loud and full of swearing.

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