The Corporate Thriller Lied to Us

I never got into the corporate thrillers of the 1980s, ’90s, and aughts, the subject of a new retrospective at the Criterion Channel. These films tended to involve plots and characters that ostentatiously deplore that world of greed and wrongdoing, but that deploring generally requires a long, lingering, lascivious process of glamorizing evil excesses.