Welcome to our winter solstice edition! There isn’t much cinema going on this week as people jam the department stores, but you’ll want to check out Leah Pickett’s long review of The Big Short, an adaptation of Michael Lewis’s nonfiction best seller about the subprime mortgage crisis, starring Brad Pitt, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, and Christian Bale. And I’ve got something to tell you about Youth, a philosophical comedy from Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty), starring Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, and Jane Fonda.
