22. 'Margin Call'

Is this the best Wall Street movie ever made? By refusing to demonize its subjects, director J.C. Chador's ultra-confident debut feature sidesteps Oliver Stone-style outrage to expose an even darker truth: the market is a leviathan with a mind of its own, and we're all just barnacles clinging to its scales. The bankers -- injected with varying levels of paranoia and arrogance by a murderers' row of actors (Kevin Spacey, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons) -- just happen to dwell closer to the mouth of the beast, for better and worse. -- M.H.