By Stephen Farber WHY IT MIGHT SELL: A big, serious movie about the ... Tucci as the man fired in the opening scene also illuminates the human costs of this meltdown. Baker and Irons exude ...

It’s inevitable that any Sundance movie about financial malfeasance these days will be compared to ‘Margin Call,’ the Kevin ... his tracks and flees the scene, denying he had a role in ...

but feelings aren’t really what “Margin Call” is about. Irons and Spacey prove why they’re the Oscar winners in the cast, thought Tucci is excellent in his scenes, which bookend the film.

And then Jeremy Irons showed up, and "Margin Call" becomes something much more than that: It sort of turns into an indictment of everything ... has a breathtaking scene at the end of the film ...