one of the best films of 2015 but definitely THE most important.

Rating: 9/10 (24 February 2016)

The Big Short is a story about the 2008 Housing Collapse in the United States. It follows 3 separate story lines with 3 different groups of people all of whom are realizing the collapse is about to happen and start betting against the banks. And it's done excellently.
With a subject matter so complicated and hard to understand the movie had a gigantic task of being comprehensible while not being condescending, but director and writer Adam Mckay manages to pull it off flawlessly in an innovative and fresh way of storytelling.
The movie frequently breaks the fourth wall to explain how the system works, but you never really feel talked down or taken out of the movie because it uses such clever ways of doing it (like Margot Robbie in a bathtub explaining it, or a famous chef using a fish analogue) that makes it not only easy to follow, but also fresh and most importantly funny and entertaining.
This is one of the few movies that has so much exposition in it's script that you'd say "it'd never work", but it does, due to amazing editing and great writing.It's handled with such delicate care and masterful direction that you never once feel overwhelmed by the information or disengaged from the movie.
The performances are also all stellar Christian Bale delivers great offbeat and weird performance we're not necessarily used to from him. Steve Carell and Brad Pitt are solid as ever, Ryan Gosling is hilarious and the rest of the cast is great as well.
All in all outstanding direction from Adam Mcay on all fronts in delivering us a story that we probably barely knew anything about and yet impacted us the most in recent years. It's a film everyone should see and it's a film that should and will stand the test of time for flawlessly showcasing one of the biggest and darkest events of the 21st century.