In the best scenes, Lithgow (who plays multiple roles), Gregg Henry, Tom Bower, Barton Heyman, and Frances Sternhagen spark off each other with the casual, skit-comic humor that De Palma mastered more than twenty years ago.

NEWYORKER: Raising Cain

America's Securities and Exchange Commission, whose failures included negligible supervision of investment banks and the Madoff scandal, has set up a new risk division packed with heavyweight thinkers such as Henry Hu, Gregg Berman and Richard Bookstaber.

ECONOMIST: What regulators should do now