Reviews

There are safe Oscar movies like lady bird / the post and risky Oscar movies like Dunkirk / the big short.

As it stands, A Most Violent Year definitely has more than a few strengths thanks to some good performers and Chandor's willingness to balance out a mostly dialogue-driven film with some rather well-crafted and sparingly used action (which might just give it the edge over Margin Call), but it's stil...

But when a movie only contains that and has nothing else interesting to offer, you can be sure that a large part of the audience will be slightly disappointed.

Our newest film auteur, in the style of past decades, where one person writes and directs the movie seems to be J C Chandor.

A Most Violent Year is the story of Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac), a man fighting to keep his business alive in New York in 1981.