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Seth Rogen's new movie is about the GameStop stock hysteria of early 2021 .
The movie tells a slightly oversimplified story about the memestock frenzy, hamming up its populism themes to preserve a narrative of rapscallions on Reddit fighting against giants of Wall Street.
But where the movie is brilliant is in how it treats its hand-picked villains.
The movie is a much better retelling of January 2021 than I thought it would be, says Tom Charity .
At turns, the movie simplifies or exaggerates the real story in order to stick to a David-versus-Goliath narrative.
The filmmakers do well to get a thick financial glossary across without bogging down the movie.
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