Amsterdam

Just knowing that the director is David O. Russell (‘American Hustle’, ‘Silver Linings Playbook’) and that the cast includes Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Alessandro Nivola, Andrea Riseborough, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Rock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Shannon, Mike Myers, Taylor Swift, Timothy Olyphant, Zoe Saldana, Rami Malek, and Robert De Niro makes this a must see! It is the 1930s: Bale is Burt, a doctor wounded in WWI; Washington is Burt’s best friend, Harold, a lawyer; and Robbie is Valerie, a nurse/artist who once spent a rollicking time with the two in Amsterdam but then vanished. Now Burt’s mentor has been murdered. The trio investigate—and uncover a fascist plot that actually really happened during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt! ‘Stuffed with ambition and the occasionally arresting moment, this 1930s mystery flaunts a freewheeling spirit… The picture couldn’t look better thanks to its ace period detail and Emmanuel Lubezki’s enrapturing photography.’—Tim Grierson, Screen Daily