Margin Call (2011)

Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Simon Baker and Demi Moore negotiate the end of a fictional investment bank (Lehman Brothers) during the 2008 financial crisis, and writer-director J.C. Chandor uses taunt dialogue and few sets to make a thriller.

d: J.C. Chandor | imdb.com | trailer

Horrible Bosses (2011)

Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day play regular guy Three Stooges who plot to kill their bosses — Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and sexual harasser Jennifer Aniston — with deft comic timing, cocaine slapstick and murder consultant Jamie Foxx.

d: Seth Gordon | imdb.com | trailer

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

George Clooney, Jeff Bridges (wonderful as another version of the Dude), Kevin Spacey and Stephen Lang are members of the New Earth Army, an experimental Army program centered on parapsychology in an enjoyable war comedy with little payoff.

d: Grant Heslov | imdb.com | trailer | the book | the documentary

Shrink (2009)

After his wife commits suicide, Hollywood psychiatrist Kevin Spacey self-medicates with marijuana. Spacey brings his usual gleeful cynicism, but his patients are a depressing bunch of show-biz clichés who are all too-neatly interconnected — another movie cliché.

d: Jonas Pate | imdb.com | trailer