Margin Call

Everyone thinks this movie is a fairly routine, not particularly notable drama...my love for Margin Call boils down to it being the one film that, more than any other, seems to understand the modern workplace.

Positively devastating.

Greed isn't merely good here, it's God; and He's about to smite His acolytes with blazing Old Testament relish.

This is thriller, horror story and human drama in one.

Afterward, we have a better understanding of the apathy that permeated our economy’s ongoing crisis, which, depending on your outlook, either focuses or alleviates your anger over the situation.

Even though Chandor isn't trying to turn his characters into something abominable, the truth is that each of them is, on a bigger or lesser scale, an evil to society. [Full review in Spanish]

Margin Call opts to show us that there are no heroes and villains, only villains and victims and poor souls weighing the merits of a Faustian bargain.

The film is practically hijacked by Kevin Spacey, though, as a far more complex corporate dirtbag than he usually plays.