Review of Margin Call (2011) by Dana Stevens for Slate — 20 Oct 2011
With its restricted one-night timeframe and a setting that rarely expands beyond the walls of the firm, Margin Call can feel like a dramatized version of those ubiquitous 2008 news photos of white men staring in horror at numbers on a screen.
But in its best moments, this film reminds us that every one of those pictures contained its own story of compromise, corruption, and ruin.
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This review of Margin Call (2011) was written by Dana Stevens and published by Slate on 20 Oct 2011.
Margin Call has generally received positive reviews.
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