Boiler Room

...Younger treats this story of guys in suits with phones as if it were a Hughes Brothers film about gunz and drugz in the hood.

The movie hums with authenticity, and knows a lot about the cultlike power of a company that promises to turn its trainees into millionaires, and certainly turns them into efficient phone salesmen.

Thanks to a classy, accurate script and some powerhouse performances by rising stars Affleck, Diesel and Ribisi, Boiler Room spends the majority of its running time convincing that these are not just pretty-boy actors playing...

First-time filmmaker Ben Younger makes not a single false move when delineating the merciless, high-testosterone world of boiler-room brokerages...

...creepy-sweet Walter Keane puppy eyes, and seductive sense of calm, is the perfect actor to embody a lost young man who numbs himself into a happy zombie by selling financial snake oil.