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Margin Call film review: Financial saga as thrilling as a tax demand
This is the first of, I fear, many fictional movies about the 2008 financial crisis. Its picture of a New York investment bank imploding was presumably intended by first-time writer-director J.C. Chandor to be as beady-eyed about Wall Street as David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross was about real estate hustling. However, Margin Call fails to clarify the issues as effectively as Inside Job, last year’s Oscar-winning documentary, and Mr Chandor is unwittingly seduced by the wealth and power he is portraying. Like Oliver Stone in Wall Street Two, he’s fallen head over heels in love with his own bad guys: obscenely ... (full story)
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