'‘Fair Play’ Review: A Gripping Financial Drama
A Gripping Financial Drama
And look,
it’s not as if a movie has to be one or the other! “Fair
It’s a
finance drama, set inside a cutthroat New York hedge fund, and it’s also
To put
it in vulgar terms: Could it be a commercial movie? You bet
But the
key to the film’s potential success isn’t just that it’s made in
It’s that
“Fair Play,” while full of sex, money, corporate backstabbing, and a lot of other
“Wall Street,”
in the ’80s, was a finance drama that knew how to talk the talk
More recently,
those films have included “Boiler Room” (2000) and “Margin Call” (2011)
It’s as
if they’re placing bets not on horses but on skittery 3D holograms whose
At the
center of the story are Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) and Emily (Phoebe Dynevor), who we meet
In the
thick of the action, Luke drops a small metal object on the floor; it’s
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