I've never been someone who was really interested or knowledgeable about business (much to my father's neverending disappointment). When people start talking about stocks or earnings my eyes glaze over pretty quickly. So I went into Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room with quite a bit of trepidation, assuming I would be extremely bored. But I wasn't -- the documentary really makes the company's implosion seem real, even for people like me who may not understand at first quite what was at stake or how it happened.

If you've never really understood why Enron was such a big deal, this is the movie for you.