Margin Call

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “Margin Call is one of the strongest American films of the year and easily the best Wall Street movie ever made.”

  David Denby, The New Yorker · 100

• “Chandor's shrewdest bit of business is figuring out how to make an A-list movie with a $3.5-million budget. Solution: buy low, sell high. Hire last decade's A-list – Spacey, Irons and Demi Moore – and give them their best parts in years.”

  Stephen Cole, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) · 100

• “You could describe Margin Call as a thriller (it's wired with suspense), yet the tension all comes from words.”

  Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly · 91

• “This confident, crisply made piece of work does an expert job of bringing us inside the inner sanctum of a top Wall Street investment bank in extremis, giving us a convincing and coolly dramatic portrait of what it must have been like when titans trembled.”

  Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times · 90

• “The accomplishment of this movie is that it allows you to sympathize with them, to acknowledge the reality of their predicament, without letting them off the hook or forgetting the damage they did.”

  A.O. Scott, The New York Times · 90