Margin Call -

The rest of the film is a pressure-cooker chain reaction: a sleepless middle-manager (Paul Bettany), the panicked head of trading (Kevin Spacey), the icy CEO (Jeremy Irons), and the risk architect (Tucci, again) trying to sell this worthless garbage to the market before dawn.

If you haven’t seen it, or haven’t revisited it in a few years, here is why this low-budget, one-week-shoot masterpiece is arguably the most accurate depiction of modern finance ever put to screen. Margin Call

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We’ve all seen The Wolf of Wall Street : the hookers, the Quaaludes, the yacht-sinking chaos. It’s a rock concert of greed. And we’ve seen The Big Short : the fourth-wall-breaking, celebrity-cameo-filled, ADHD explainer of synthetic CDOs. The rest of the film is a pressure-cooker