3. The Big Short

The best thing about The Big Short is that it doesn’t dumb down the story for everybody to understand it. Sure enough, you have from time to time a Ryan Gosling breaking the 4th wall, or a Margot Robbie explaining a concept in a bubbly bathtub, while drinking champagne. But that is just about all – and, despite that, this is still the most enriching movie of the year.

And it is enriching in the sense that the viewer can understand what is happening with the world – by looking at past events, the viewer can predict future ones. And this is exactly the note in which The Big Short ends – bleak and completely without any hope.

The other best thing about The Big Short (if we may say so) is the cast, particularly Christian Bale and Steve Carell – both of them should win at least a nomination for supporting/main actors at the Academy Awards (they already received at the Golden Globes). We could compare this to The Wolf of Wall Street – but while the latter focused only on one wolf, The Big Short presents us the entire pack.

Unfortunately, unlike with Sicario, there is no escaping from the predators.