My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Thursday, February 2, 2012

Margin Call (2011)

J.C. Chandor's dramatization of what probably happened the night before the financial markets collapsed in 2008 is expertly woven and acted, a picture-play that works because it's a good story and it carries with it a tension that grows with every scene.  You don't really need to understand the mathematics behind the financial meltdown, this film lays it out in a clean understandable way.  It also humanizes a group of people that average Americans despise right now and for me that's a healthy perspective.  This film will make you think and will challenge you on what choice you would have made if in the same situation.   Grade: A
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