A Most Violent Year
A Most Violent Year centers on Abel Morales, the owner of a small heating oil company who is stressed by the competitiveness in the oil trade and having to secure costly loans to expand his business. Then the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag him in and threaten to destroy all he has built.
22 July 1947, Beverly Hills, California, USA
7 November 1947, Hyattsville, Maryland, USA
27 November 1969, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 October 1960, Brooklyn, New York, USA
24 March 1977, Sacramento, California, USA
10 June 1957, Bronx, New York City, New York, USA
13 November 1961, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
February 24, 2017
A Most Violent Year is a fascinating, intense, character-driven drama, which not only transports you to the state of mind of NYC in the 1980's, but will also show you just how entertaining simplicity can be.
July 14, 2016
It's a taut little thriller about honour and respect, with not that much violence, actually, set in an unrecognizable New York.
January 30, 2015
Like that camel-hair coat Abel wears, A Most Violent Year is classy and commands respect, but a stronger pulse under the lapels would make us care much more.
April 26, 2016
Though possibly lacking a little bang bang for your buck, A Most Violent Year represents an absorbing, thoughtful and successful attempt to subvert the usual grisly gangster-chic stereotypes.
January 29, 2015
"A Most Violent Year" is a far more interesting film than its title implies. And a film you've never seen before.
January 30, 2015
Chandor follows the psychologically penetrating tradition of Sidney Lumet, Alan Pakula and Francis Ford Coppola, observing crime as a microcosm of society.
January 29, 2015
Abel is a man with ideals in a world that has no use for them: If he's going to succeed, he's going to have to use his wits instead of bullets.
January 29, 2015
[A] tight anti-thriller, one where the violence of the title is more implied than seen.
November 08, 2016
J.C. Chandor is becoming American cinema's foremost chronicler of men in crisis.
February 02, 2015
The underside of the American Dream is on display in A Most Violent Year, a drama about an immigrant trying to make his way to the top.
May 30, 2016
Instead of directing a movie that screams "HEY, IT'S THE '80S," he made one that looks, sounds, and feels like a refugee from that era, and lets the audience do the rest.
