Film: Finding slick comedy in financial chaos

McKay’s is outraged that greed ultimately triumphed over good

Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling as financial high-flyers in The Big Short
Shu Qi in The Assassin

Cinema

The Big Short

Directed by Adam McKay

Nationwide, 15A

Rating:5/5

The Assassin

Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien

Selected, 12A

Rating:4/5

Although he set out to make a serious film, once he had done his research on the subject there was something so cosmically unilateral about Mutually Assured Destruction, Stanley Kubrick’s only option ...