Equity

A Wall Street investment banker (Anna Gunn) strives to put together an IPO for a burgeoning tech company, while struggling to overcome the stigma of another IPO that she supposedly blew earlier in the year. Briskly directed by Meera Menon and smartly written by Amy Fox, Sarah Megan Thomas and Alysia Reiner (Thomas and Reiner also play key roles, as Gunn’s assistant and a federal investigator, respectively), the movie is slick, well-crafted and fascinating in a watch-all-the-sharks-eat-each-other way. There’s the usual drawback of these masters-of-the-universe movies: The ordinary folks in the audience get nobody to identify with; everyone in sight is either amoral, ineffectually honest, ruthlessly venal or some combination of the three. The variation on the theme here is that so many of them are women.