Steven Soder­bergh plays the mar­ket in The Laun­dro­mat trailer

Steven Soder­bergh is like the MF DOOM of the Amer­i­can auteurist cin­e­ma; it’s not enough for him to drop one riv­et­ing fea­ture project on Net­flix with­in a sin­gle year, he’s got to dou­ble up. Soder­bergh fans enjoy an embar­rass­ment of rich­es in 2019, with this past winter’s High Fly­ing Bird soon to be suc­ceed­ed by his finan­cial dra­ma The Laundromat.

Net­flix has been on a hot streak of trail­er releas­es this week, fol­low­ing yesterday’s clip of The King with a first look at The Laun­dro­mat pri­or to its screen­ings at the film fes­ti­vals in Venice and Toron­to in Sep­tem­ber. A title card teas­es Soder­bergh as ​“the direc­tor of Ocean’s Eleven,” and indeed, it looks like he’s back in fun-time-caper mode as his char­ac­ters scram­ble to get away clean with a mas­sive payday.

Meryl Streep heads up the cast as Ellen Mar­tin, an ordi­nary woman dis­traught to find that her dream vaca­tion has been dashed due to some sus­pect mon­e­tary deal­ings. She fol­lows the trail of dol­lar signs to Pana­ma City and the high­ly sketchy law firm of Mos­sack (Gary Old­man, doing a Ger­man accent that we’ll char­i­ta­bly describe at present as ​“a choice”) and Fon­se­ca (Anto­nio Ban­deras).

There, she uncov­ers a vast net­work of shady rerout­ing that con­nects white-col­lar crim­i­nals to the most influ­en­tial zil­lion­aires on the plan­et with a thread made of cap­i­tal. Her plot to expose the wrong­do­ing expands and ropes in an ensem­ble filled out by the likes of David Schwim­mer, Sharon Stone, Alex Pet­tyfer, Will Forte, and Jef­frey Wright.

Soder­bergh has been on an anti-insti­tu­tion­al tear late­ly, rail­ing against the stric­tures of cap­i­tal­ism for most of this decade. The Laun­dro­mat looks to be his most explic­it­ly sub­ver­sive yet, trac­ing lines between the one-per­centers hoard­ing all the wealth in Amer­i­ca and the gross eth­i­cal vio­la­tions they must com­mit to get there.

The Laun­dro­mat will be in UK and US the­aters on 27 Sep­tem­ber, and then online at Net­flix on 18 October.