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Fascinating, sexy, improbably compelling and scathingly funny: The Big Short reviewed

A film about the financial crash that sounds boring on paper but that will fill you with righteous anger

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

The Big Short

15, Nationwide

The Big Short is a drama about the American financial collapse of 2008. It talks you through sub-prime mortgages, tranches, credit-default swaps, mortgage-backed securities, collateralized debt obligations …and, yes, I just bored myself to tears typing that list. I had to prop my eyes open with matchsticks typing that list.

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