Margin Call
Dir: J.C. Chandor
2011
***
Apart from Zachary Quinto's rabbit in the headlight performance and the pointless inclusion of Penn Badgley's character, this is a brilliant example of a stella cast producing stella performances. Sure it simplifies quite a complicated event (I lost count of how many times  someone said 'Tell me in English', for the sake of us simple folk) but it gets to the heart of the matter (our current financial crisis) and it does so very well. It's all too complicated for anyone to understand anyway, surely if people did understand it wouldn't have ever happened. Probably. Anyway, a very impressive debut from J.C. Chandor, and in 2011 a nice return to form for Kevin Spacey I thought. For all it's problems, it is directed smoothly throughout with a level of maturity and style.