A Most Violent Year

The result is never in question, just the path you take to get there.

Set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, an immigrant and his family try to expand their business and capitalise on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

124 minutes.
No persons under 16 (Language, Violence).
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, On the art circuit

Showtimes

Things are going to get rough...

Credits

Cast	Oscar Isaac, Elyes Gabel, Jessica Chastain, Lorna Pruce, Christopher Abbott, Matthew Maher, Albert Brooks
Director	J.C. Chandor
Screenplay	J.C. Chandor
Music	Alex Ebert
Cinematography	Bradford Young
Editing	Ron Patane
Sound formats	Dolby Digital
Soundtrack	Available
SA distributor	Ster-Kinekor
Made in	2014
Produced by	Before The Door Pictures, Washington Square Films, FilmNation Entertainment, Participant Media, Imagenation Abu Dhabi FZ, Old Bull Pictures

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Drama, thriller
Language	Strong, frequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Psychological, physical, realistic, moderate to strong, infrequent
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	Nonne
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 17 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Theresa Smith Clean business is a dirty game.	15
Die Burger Laetitia Pople Een goie man, midaadgenre op sy kop gedraai.	10
Cape Times Todd McCarthy The cost of business.	15
Metacritic.com 44 critics	16
Rottentomatoes critics 181 critics	16
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Gritty, gripping, and weighted with thought-provoking heft, A Most Violent Year represents another strong entry in writer-director J.C. Chandor's impressive filmography.	18
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	16
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Moody, violent thriller doesn't quite sustain its promise.	10
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 116 users	14
Rottentomatoes users 221944 users	13
Internet 23849 Netizens A most excellent movie to end the year.	14
Average .. 71%	14