Blood for oil

A Most Violent Year

Crit

So imagine Macbeth, but in New Jersey, January or February 1981, and the thanes sell fuel oil, and Macbeth bought out his gangster father-in-law's fuel oil company, but though Lady Macbeth (aka Anna Morales, played with maximum cleavage by Jessica Chastain) is just as bloodlusty as Shakespeare wrote her, Macbeth himself (Spanish-accent-on-the-second-syllable Abel, Oscar Isaacs) has been hijacked by Hilary Mantel and become Thomas More, whose laces are as strait as anyone's, though the angle of the straits may not match anyone else's. Abel, in short, insists upon doing "the most right thing"--i.e., the thing that conforms to but does not exceed the standard corruption of his industry.

Well, somebody's gonna get hurt for sure.

Trailers

• Child 44--Somebody's killing children in Russia in the year of Stalin's death (and my birth, not that there's any connection).
• True Story--A journalism story, based on an actual series of events that started at the New York Times; do you even have to ask whether I'm in?
• Ex Machina--Her's Samantha gets a body; written and directed by Alex Garland.
• While We're Young--Trailer looked kinda could-go-either-way, until it mentioned Noah Baumbach.
• Danny Collins--Pacino plays basically Billy Joel, looks like.