34.) Money Monster [5/28/2016]

Like 99 Homes and The Big Short, this film took a look at the current financial crisis in America through a fictionalized financial show (a more cartoonishly-vapid Jim Cramer from Mad Money). Unlike the first two movies mentioned, this film ground out all the nuance, and instead used a cliched, cardboard cutout of a hedge fund manager as the bad guy, whose obvious money laundering would have seemed outlandish in a Bond film. Still, the core actors, George Clooney, Julia Roberts, and Jack O'Connell (from Unbreakable), were entertaining to watch and the movie required less math to make sense of the mess (which was nice, considering how tired I was when I watched it). You could think of this as the poor man's The Big Short.