Movie

A Most Violent Year

2014 · 125 min

A slow-burn, wintry crime drama that simmers with quiet tension and moral weight, anchored by a restrained, powerful performance.

Tagline: The result is never in question. Just the path you take to get there.
Overview: A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.
How it feels: Tense, melancholic, earnest and dark. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Ambition, corruption, family, morality
Content: Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
corruption
family
morality
survival
Places: big city
workplace
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none