Madfilm Meetup:
A Most Violent Year | J.C. Chandor | USA | 2015 | 110 min
Marcus Point Cinemas, Tuesday, February 3, 7:15 pm»
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Join us for another new release in town as we see A Most Violent Year, directed by J.C. Chandor (Margin Call, All is Lost) and starring Oscar Isaac (Inside Llewyn Davis) and Jessica Chastain (Interstellar). An immigrant in New York City fights to protect his business and family in 1981, the year with the most violent crime in the city’s history.
Admission is $5 as a Movie Tuesday at Marcus Point. Since this is the opening week for A Most Violent Year, we strongly recommend purchasing your tickets in advance online.
Join Madison Film Forum contributors James Kreul and Jake Smith at the screening. With the Madfilm Meetups, the Madison Film Forum provides opportunities to attend great films and meet people doing the same.
A Most Violent Year has had a strong positive response from film critics, earning a 90% Tomatometer Rating at Rotten Tomatoes. You can find a collection of reviews, positive, mixed, and negative, at our Flipboard Magazine:
Review highlights include:
“Oscar Isaac has been extremely good in previous roles, but he is an utter revelation as Abel, the quiet power of his performance recalling early Pacino.” Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
“Some of the menacing atmosphere, and even a few scenes, descend from the first two Godfather movies. But, in fact, Chandor has done something startling: he has made an anti-Godfather.” David Denby, New Yorker
“It brings to mind the fierce New York-based productions of Sidney Lumet in particular but also the whole notion of character-driven, the-clock-is-ticking melodramas in general.” Kenneth Turan, Los Angles Times
“Just when we’re settling into the film being a Lumet-ian character-driven drama, Chandor will, on more than one occasion, organically segue to an adrenaline-packed truck chase that’s as exciting as any big action-movie moment of recent memory.” Alonso Duralde, TheWrap