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By Mike D’Angelo ably the first person to recognize When the American housing that the housing market was a market collapsed in 2008, triggerbubble about to burst—to recede ing a global recession, few people into the background. Other players genuinely understood what had include irascible hedge-fund manhappened. Just the words “subager Mark Baum (Steve Carell), prime mortgage” could make your who serves as the movie’s angry eyes glaze over. The Big Short, a moral conscience; super-slick new film adapted from Michael investment banker Jared Vennett Lewis’ best-selling book, attempts (Ryan Gosling), who narto explain how everyrates; and a semi-retired thing went south by lookfinancial guru named Ben ing at the handful of Wall aaacc Rickert, played for no very Street guys who foresaw THE BIG good reason by a nearly the disaster and profited SHORT from it. In many hands, Christian Bale, comatose Brad Pitt. McKay, who co-wrote the result would have Steve Carell, the screenplay with been a tract. Because The Ryan Gosling. Charles Randolph, is terBig Short was directed by Directed by rified that viewers might comedy specialist Adam Adam McKay. be confused or bored, so McKay (both Anchorman Rated R. Now he keeps stopping the film films, Talladega Nights, The playing. to have guest celebrities Other Guys), however, it (Margot Robbie, Anthony actually goes too far in the Bourdain, Selena Gomez) define opposite direction, working overterms like “collateralized debt oblitime to make complex financial gation” directly to the camera—a concepts entertaining. ploy that’s funny at first but soon The film’s first-rate ensemble begins to feel condescending. The cast struggles a bit, because each Big Short does an admirable job of actor is playing not so much a charlaying out, step by step, the series acter as an expository function. of greedy decisions that wound up Christian Bale has it roughest, since ruining so many lives, and one can he’s playing Michael Burry, the one empathize with its sense of outperson from Lewis’ book whose rage that those responsible were identity hasn’t been changed; the rewarded rather than punished. real Burry is a major-league eccenBut it’s an essay cleverly disguised tric, and Bale leans hard on the as a narrative. The human beings man’s lack of social skills, allowing in it feel superfluous. his peculiar genius—he was argu-
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