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Alynda Wheat, People: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...fascinating... stellar performances from everyone, including Spacey as the only exec with a heart.... a satisfying yarn -- and a painfully relevant one." (Read the full review...) 84 words, 11/03/11 Mary Pols, Time: GOOD (NOT GREAT) "...all the simplifying means the viewer doesn't learn much about what's actually going on. I felt over-served on the layman's terms but still under nourished." (Read the full review...) 745 words, 10/21/11 Christy Lemire, Associated Press: VERY GOOD (cg) "...unfolds in a series of quietly intense and increasingly distressing meetings between the various figures... strong performances abound... consistently compelling." (Read the full review...) 714 words, 10/20/11 Mara Reinstein, Us Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...compelling... Appealing characters, interesting premise. But the drama is done in by dull boardroom scenes and tedious dialogue better suited for CNBC." (Read the full review...) 72 words, 10/20/11 Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg) "J.C. Chandor gets what Oliver Stone was going for in 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' with a lot less fuss. And what a director of actors!" (Read the full review...) 359 words, 10/21/11 Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: VERY GOOD (cg) "...thrillingly intense.... an explosive drama that speaks lucidly and scarily to the times we live in." (Read the full review...) 308 words, 10/21/11 Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It's all glass, steel and protocol, long black cars and executive perks... One of the characters has a sick dog. The dog is the only creature in the entire film that anyone likes." (Read the full review...) 794 words, 10/21/11 Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...the movie as a whole is surprisingly dry, as if its integrity somehow depended on its never getting too lurid or going over a certain line of verisimilitude." (Read the full review...) 685 words, 10/19/11 James Berardinelli, Reel Views: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...close enough to provide an uncomfortable glimpse behind the curtain.... there's a mixture of drama and suspense to be found in J.C. Chandor's assured directorial debut." (Read the full review...) 962 words, 10/19/11
A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...extraordinary.... It is hard to believe that 'Margin Call' is Mr. Chandor's first feature. His formal command is downright awe inspiring." (Read the full review...) 1,058 words, 10/21/11 Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: EXCELLENT (cg) "How good is J.C. Chandor's debut? So good I was ready to buy what he was selling even though I didn't entirely understand it." (Read the full review...) 302 words, 10/21/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...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..." (Read the full review...) 773 words, 10/21/11 Lou Lumenick, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg) "...effectively voices the same outrage that the Occupy Wall Street movement is so loudly proclaiming." (Read the full review...) 554 words, 10/21/11 Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "...well-crafted and smartly acted.... writer/director J.C. Chandor resists the urge to turn even the most obviously soulless slickos on view into subhuman specimens." (Read the full review...) 408 words, 10/21/11 Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: POOR (cg) "The terrific cast seems like a risk-free proposition, but the movie is barely worth the celluloid it's printed on.... more like an overheated prime-time soap..." (Read the full review...) 331 words, 10/28/11 David Edelstein, New York Magazine: EXCELLENT "...a hell of a picture... Every character is a subtler breed of predator than we're used to.... these are not likable figures -- and yet however much we hate them, we are on their side." (Read the full review...) 972 words, 10/17/11 Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: OUTSTANDING (cg) "It's all glass, steel and protocol, long black cars and executive perks... One of the characters has a sick dog. The dog is the only creature in the entire film that anyone likes." (Read the full review...) 794 words, 10/21/11 Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...audaciously asks us to empathize with obscenely overpaid risk analysts and their bosses, a gambit that fails." (Read the full review...) 626 words, 10/19/11 Peter Howell, Toronto Star: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a realistic take on what happens when high-flying money speculators suddenly hit ground.... a great calling card for J.C. Chandor, the writer/director making his feature debut." (Read the full review...) 656 words, 11/11/11 Stephen Cole, Toronto Globe & Mail: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...an A-list movie with a $3.5-million budget." (Read the full review...) 623 words, 11/11/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Kevin Spacey is flat-out brilliant as a company lifer in the awful position of knowing what's coming but being powerless to stop it." (Read the full review...) 207 words, 11/10/11
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: OUTSTANDING (cg) "Chandor really did his homework. The Wall Street milieu he has created feels dead on: The profanity, the machismo and the moral expediency resonate and feel frighteningly casual." (Read the full review...) 574 words, 10/21/11 Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...nicely understated... But it's hard to feel compassion for these Masters of the Universe. I'm not even sure Chandor wants us to, but if he doesn't, then what's the point?" (Read the full review...) 431 words, 10/21/11 Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: VERY GOOD (cg) "...a dissection, an all-star big-name top-to-bottom/bottom-to-top analysis of the sorts of people and the kind of mindsets that brought the world to its dire financial state today." (Read the full review...) 446 words, 10/21/11 Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: VERY GOOD (cg) "A cerebral, gripping film... resembles an intricate chess game with life-or-death stakes.... feels as vital as an adrenaline-driven Hollywood thriller." (Read the full review...) 451 words, 10/21/11 Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: OUTSTANDING (cg) "...terrific... The financial lingo will please money wonks. But the film as a whole focuses more on the people and personalities who went into such a catastrophic failure..." (Read the full review...) 665 words, 10/28/11 Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...a movie you'll remember for its inertia - a bunch of actors standing around. The men and women here appear to be just what they invent: financial tools." (Read the full review...) 617 words, 10/21/11 Stephen Whitty, New Jersey Star-Ledger: VERY GOOD (cg) "...if you enjoy good acting, and quiet direction - and are willing to accept that even the worst villain never sees himself as a villain - 'Margin Call' is a pretty safe bet." (Read the full review...) 576 words, 10/21/11 Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD (cg) "Chandor's writing goes to some darkly interesting places, and there's fun to be found in individual performances... it's tough feeling sorry for any of them." (Read the full review...) 362 words, 10/21/11 Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: VERY GOOD (cg) "A horror story told in dark conference rooms and starkly elegant corporate offices... a taut, smart and remarkably timely thriller..." (Read the full review...) 290 words, 10/21/11 Mike Russell, Portland Oregonian: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "I just wish the movie wasn't so monologue-choked, muted to a fault and fond of oversimplifying financial lingo to the point of meaninglessness." (Read the full review...) 316 words, 10/21/11 Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: VERY GOOD (cg) "...has a spectacular cast, and the 24-hour cycle of events gives the movie the compressed dramatic effect of a fine play." (Read the full review...) 368 words, 10/21/11 Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...carries itself like an important movie, which it isn't. Neither is it pulpish enough to be considered entertaining, which it could be. Where's Oliver Stone when you need him?" (Read the full review...) 506 words, 10/27/11 Tom Long, Detroit News: EXCELLENT (cg) "...a reminder that actual human beings are behind all the financial manipulating. Squirrelly human beings, but humans nonetheless." (Read the full review...) 311 words, 10/28/11 Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg) "...the movie Oliver Stone tried to make with 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps,' only a lot less flashy and melodramatic -- and sharper, smarter and with a much stronger cast." (Read the full review...) 627 words, 10/28/11
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice/LA Weekly: WEAK "...audaciously asks us to empathize with obscenely overpaid risk analysts and their bosses, a gambit that fails." (Read the full review...) 626 words, 10/19/11 Ann Lewinson, Boston Phoenix: MODERATE (cg) "...fails to tell us anything we don't already know..." (Read the full review...) 167 words, 10/20/11 Scott Tobias, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg) "Chandor respects viewers enough not to dumb down the language, and the performances carry the proper tone of escalating panic.... it's clear-headed and fair..." (Read the full review...) 442 words, 10/20/11 Alison Willmore, Movieline: EXCELLENT (cg) "How do you decide to screw over all of your colleagues and the rest of the world? By committing yourself to the koan that it's just business, it's just business, it's just business..." (Read the full review...) 875 words, 10/20/11 Nick Schager, Slant: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg) "...loves speechifying, but the film is far more assured when lingering in the silence of its morally compromised characters." (Read the full review...) 680 words, 03/23/11 Norman Wilner, Toronto Now: EXCELLENT (cg) "Kevin Spacey is flat-out brilliant as a company lifer in the awful position of knowing what's coming but being powerless to stop it." (Read the full review...) 207 words, 11/10/11 Curt Holman, Atlanta Creative Loafing: EXCELLENT (cg) "...makes a microcosm of the Wall Street chicanery that continues to ripple through the world economy and provides the best fiction film about the disaster to date." (Read the full review...) 595 words, 10/21/11
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "...chilling and enjoyable in unequal measure. Entertainment predominates, but entertainment with smarts, and a well-honed edge." (Read the full review...) 582 words, 10/21/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...extraordinary.... It is hard to believe that 'Margin Call' is Mr. Chandor's first feature. His formal command is downright awe inspiring." (Read the full review...) 1,058 words, 10/21/11 David Denby, New Yorker: VERY GOOD "...the awe-inspiring appearance of Manhattan at night and the moods of choking anxiety aren't terribly fresh, but the writing and the acting are so good that we get completely caught up." (Read the full review...) 1,149 words, 10/24/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...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..." (Read the full review...) 773 words, 10/21/11 Dana Stevens, Slate: VERY GOOD "...impressive... lack of a crusading hero is the bleakest and smartest thing about this small-scale, occasionally overly schematic drama." (Read the full review...) 675 words, 10/21/11 Andrew O'Hehir, Salon: VERY GOOD "There's definitely an actors' showcase quality to 'Margin Call'... Spacey's is one of the great performances found in American movies this year." (Read the full review...) 1,256 words, 10/20/11
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: VERY GOOD "...coolly absorbing... J.C. Chandor's precocious writing-directing debut is fastidious, smart and more than a bit portentous as it probes the human costs of unchecked greed." (Read the full review...) 980 words, 01/21/11 Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: FAIR "...there are few thrills... the film never develops a sense of urgency.... the issues are left rather dry and abstruse." (Read the full review...) 735 words, 01/26/11 Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: OUTSTANDING "...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..." (Read the full review...) 773 words, 10/21/11 A.O. Scott, New York Times: OUTSTANDING "...extraordinary.... It is hard to believe that 'Margin Call' is Mr. Chandor's first feature. His formal command is downright awe inspiring." (Read the full review...) 1,058 words, 10/21/11 Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: EXCELLENT "...chilling and enjoyable in unequal measure. Entertainment predominates, but entertainment with smarts, and a well-honed edge." (Read the full review...) 582 words, 10/21/11
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