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Originally Posted by Frownland
A Most Violent Year
All of the lead roles were serviceable but some of the smaller roles were great, especially Julian and some of the older mobsters. I liked how this film unfolded the motives behind everyone's actions by shrouding them at first. I thought the climax of the film was great but the last few minutes were so on the nose that I wish they had left those plot points open ended instead.
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One of the best films this decade. Aside from Inside LLewyn Davis, this is Oscar Isaac's best performance. I always appreciated that he was just a guy trying to play it straight laced while everyone around him was corrupt as f
uck. The marketing for the film played it off as Isaac being some brooding mafia guy when in reality that wasn't the case.
The blood mixing with the oil in the end is pretty telling stuff.