2014 · drama · crime
A Most Violent Year
Directed by J.C. Chandor2h 5m2014
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
Our read: A Most Violent Year (2014) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
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