Countdown to Top Ten 2K11 is a column with one simple goal: to help you decide what films you need to see before making your end of the year top ten list. Each installment features my thoughts on a critically acclaimed 2011 movie, a sampling of other critics' reactions, the odds of the film making my own list, and the reasons why it might make yours.
This week, we're covering one of the biggest hits on the festival circuit this year, the financial collapse drama "Margin Call." Is it more entertaining than watching your retirement fund vanish in an afternoon? Let's find out.
Movie: "Margin Call"
Director: J.C. Chandor
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85%
Plot Synopsis: Twenty-four hours inside a powerful investment bank on the eve of the 2008 financial collapse. A young analyst (Zachary Quinto) stumbles onto a formula that forecasts doom for his firm, then watches as the news makes its way...
This week, we're covering one of the biggest hits on the festival circuit this year, the financial collapse drama "Margin Call." Is it more entertaining than watching your retirement fund vanish in an afternoon? Let's find out.
Movie: "Margin Call"
Director: J.C. Chandor
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 85%
Plot Synopsis: Twenty-four hours inside a powerful investment bank on the eve of the 2008 financial collapse. A young analyst (Zachary Quinto) stumbles onto a formula that forecasts doom for his firm, then watches as the news makes its way...
- 10/28/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
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