Pyhrric Victory

Rating: 10/10 (24 December 2015)

Remember Alex Gibney's brilliant doc "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room"? Remember how high that made your blood boil? Now imagine that movie spiced up with some killer humor & some great performances then you get this movie. ("The Wolf of Wall Street" confessing its sins.)
Christian Bale, Steve Carell & Ryan Gosling (who I've always viewed as best seen on a poster in some sorority girl's room i.e. over-rated as an actor) all give knock out efforts in this extremely well cast, well edited & extremely well written film.
It is as brainy as my other "10" film of the year, "Ex Machina". It has all of the moral outrage of anything I've seen in quite a while. Despite all of the laughs in it --which come at you from all angles & often quite unexpectedly-- this is NOT a "feel good" movie. It's morally complex because you are rooting for the guys who are betting on the collapse of the American economy.
There may be (has, see "Ex Machina") films as good as this one this year, but there won't be a better one.