A Most Violent Year
A24 | Release Date: December 31, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
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Generally favorable reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
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38
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0
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60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottJan 30, 2015
A Most Violent Year harks back to the cinema tradition of the 1970s, with its deliberate pace, its simmering tension, its gritty cynicism and its central moral dilemma. At the same time, it has something to say about the way business is done in 2015. Read full review
60
Total FilmMatt GlasbyJan 21, 2015
A sombre crimer that resists easy thrills, investing instead in grit, intelligence and complex characterisation. Read full review
60
SlateDana StevensJan 3, 2015
A most curious movie, one with nearly all the elements of a classic crime-family saga and yet somehow lacking the moral complexity and emotional heft of the films to which it pays fastidious aesthetic homage: the New York–set urban thrillers of Sidney Lumet (Serpico, Prince of the City) and Coppola’s Godfather series. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJan 3, 2015
I like — as always — what Chandor attempts: not just to denounce capitalism but to explain in detail how people go wrong. But the overcomposed, sedate A Most Violent Year lacks the one thing it most needs: violence. Read full review
50
Charlotte ObserverLawrence ToppmanFeb 2, 2015
The story’s unbelievable, end to end. Read full review
40
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekDec 30, 2014
Grand in its aims but tepid in its conclusions, A Most Violent Year burns slow and gives off very little heat. It's not really that violent. But it sure feels like a year. Read full review
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