Tagged J. C. Chandor

After an extraordinarily troubled pre-production and subsequent Netflix distribution, Triple Frontier may have been best left in the drawer. The action thriller follows five ex-special forces friends who...

"You've come a very long way in a very short time." So says another character to Oscar Isaac's Abel Morales in A Most Violent Year. The same could well be said about the actor himself. As recently as 2012 you...

A quickening tension squeezes every frame of A Most Violent Year, tautened by Alex Ebert’s needling score. Chandor directs with a vice-like grip and, with DoP Bradford Young, frames the broken silhouettes...

Apart from Our Man's opening monologue, the only words of dialogue are the occasional groan of discomfort and an elongated 'Fuuuuuuck'. Redford's actions and expressions must carry the film. The 76-year-old...