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Despite the filmmaker's obvious smarts and oft-proven skills, there's a kind of off-putting effrontery about Soderbergh's approach here that rather sours the whole experience. The tone is brittle, the attitude arch, the performances by a savvy and diverse cast uneven.
Obvious good intentions are drowned in a hot wash of showboating stars and flooded by self-indulgence.
The Laundromat flails about, with an excess of bad ideas that undercut the justifiable outrage over the events depicted.