The Smartest Guys in the Room

A fascinating, well-told dive into the rise and fall of Enron - a company once hailed as the future of American business. What drew me in was how the film unpacks such a complex financial disaster in a way that’s totally watchable, even if you’re not a finance nerd. It’s part cautionary tale, part character study, and part “how did no one stop this?” mystery. What also stood out to me was how human the story is. Behind all the numbers and boardrooms are real people; some brilliant, some reckless, all deeply flawed. You have to smirk when you notice this film was released just a few years before the 2008 financial crisis, making it more relevant and prophetic than the filmmakers probably realized.

And of course, I can’t not mention the present-day parody.