Equity

The filmmakers overplay their hand with a cast befitting a cruise ship vacation, unfortunately without any clear sense of where the boat is heading, or how to disembark before final credits roll.

In Equity it's never clear who will come out on top, and the resolution is more true-to-life than we're used to.

I couldn't help but suspect that Menon and Fox must have felt this was their one chance to surface every issue they could think of relating to being a woman on Wall Street (or just in general), and for me, it took away from the rest of the film.

Equity is not a perfect film, but it does use its story to explore a number of issues facing women in this competitive industry.

Three of its four main characters are women, but director Meera Menon and screenwriter Amy Fox do not portray them merely as men in pencil skirts and pants suits.