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4.5
But theres a cracked logic, a genius almost, to the films amped up irreverence.
Av Club
4.2
Theres a lot of sense in Martin Scorsese, our premier cinematic authority on American sin, bringing this real life tale of greed and hedonism to the s ..
Av Club
4.5
Everything is a slave to his vanity, and there is nothing that cant be purchased to put it in his own oddly poetic words, Money doesnt just buy you po ..
Den Of Geek
3.5
These moments dont give the movie much of a soul, but the unruliness provides set pieces that compensate for what amounts to a long slog through terri ..
Indie Wire
5.0
Martin Scorsese making a terrific movie should come as no surprise.
We Got This Covered
3.5
While whats onscreen is never uninteresting, its unrelentingness is exhausting.
Austin Chronicle
4.5
Why cant we tell them what they want to know Take that Fox News Pow!
Austin Chronicle
4.0
He moves us beyond the allure of avarice so that we might take better stock of ourselves.
Time Out
4.0
The Wolf of Wall Street plays modern tragedy as epic farce, reminding us just how much fun Scorsese can be when hes in a playful mood.It also proves e ..
Time Out
4.5
The actor manages to make Belforts overconsumption and competitive fire bitterly funny on occasion. (
Screen Daily
4.5
movie Middle class Jordan Belfort makes millions selling dodgy stocks how long can he fly highStraight up, The Wolf of Wall Street (TWOWS) is one of t ..
ETimes (TOI)
1.5
We dont see the poor people Jordan rips off because he doesnt care.
Collider
1.5
But its not as if he shows you the consequences of Belforts actions.The movie has no scope; theres barely enough content for a short.
Vulture
2.3
Throughout the film, its hard to shake the feeling that too much of this particular tale is rigged.
Paste Magazine
4.4
Its a testament to Scorsese and Winter and their collaborators that one could imagine watching these cackling swine for five hours, or ten, while stil ..
Rogerebert
3.0
Its also an extraordinarily funny film, one of the best and darkest comedies of the year.
IGN
5.0
Let them rumble: Wolf is a shot of the hard stuff, gargantuan and electrifying, a psychotronic epic of the id unchecked.
E Film Critic
5.0
It sells us the sleaze, and sells it hard, but it doesnt pay out in the way we expect.
Telegraph
4.5
Its quite remarkable to watch a 179 minute film and then feel the immediate need to watch it all again while the end credits roll.
Cinema Blend
4.0
Hill is also great in a turn that, like his Oscar nominated one in Moneyball, feeds off his average guy persona.
Ny Daily News
5.0
Both the voice over narration and scenes of ensemble dialogue are rattled off with an acerbic and foul mouthed frankness that is almost poetic in its ..
Screen Rant
5.0
The character is a moral idiot, but his sheer irrepressibility is almost a virtue.
The Globe And Mail
3.1
As thrilling a filmmaker as Martin Scorsese continues to be, and as wild a performance as Leonardo DiCaprio dishes up as its morally bankrupt master o ..
Philly
3.0
Martin Scorcese has directed many over the top movies but this one takes the prize for its excessiveness.Everything about it is overdone.
Spirituality And Practice
3.5
But though it goes on too long and comes across the finish line a little winded, Scorseses picture is a mostly exciting ride on the Wall Street wild s ..
One Guys Opinion
3.8
Thats a big reason this Goodfellas has no sense of tragedy or judgement to it.It amuses, but never makes us feel.
Rogers Movie Nation
2.8
It takes three hours to tell a story that held my attention for fifteen minutes.
Sover
3.5
Its a rowdy, relentless picture, chasing a rowdy tone of chemically drenched madness and lip licking greed, eating up three hours of screen time as it ..
Blu Ray
4.0
If youre one of those Martin Scorsese fans who have been waiting 20 years for another Goodfellas, your ship has come in: from the incessant, conspirat ..
Chicago Reader
4.4
Winter never pretends to be giving us play by play analysis of specific dealings.
Mark Reviews Movies
4.4
Like Scorseses After Hours, its absurdly funny, though more akin to Goodfellas in substance and structure.
Usa Today
4.0
Yet here is Americas best director with The Wolf of Wall Street, a tale of how someone can go from being a nice, quiet Jewish boy to a venal and lubri ..
The Times
3.5
It is three hours long and it kind of wears you out by throwing more and more absurd, outlandish, awful behavior up on the screen.It is overkill.
Lariat
5.0
Instead unusually for a Scorsese movie the tone is flat out black comedy, with farcical X rated laughs, most of them coming from Belforts various sex ..
Radio Times
2.5
But with the seeds of decadence already planted, it doesnt take long for them to sprout and over grow the place for next three hours.
Screen It
4.5
The Nature of Imitation is the sound of Dorian Concept systematically deconstructing various genres, stripping them back to the bones underneath and t ..
Pop Matters
5.0
Ive got no objection to a three hour movie in theory, but Scorsese and his legendary editor Thelma Schoonmaker allow the film to repeat itself from ti ..
The Wrap
5.0
Brilliantly directed, beautifully shot and superbly written, this is a riotously entertaining and frequently hilarious drama with an Oscar worthy cent ..
View London
3.1
Hill and DiCaprio run through a Quaalude induced slapstick routine that may become a minor classic.
News Day
2.5
The film is almost three hours long and precious little of it feels new not from Scorsese or from anybody else.
Cs Monitor
5.0
Unlike its mostly slimy characters, The Wolf of Wall Street favorably impresses on every level.Perversely enjoyable and entertaining, this wild ride o ..
Film Journal
3.0
For all its avowed adult aesthetic, theres something leeringly adolescent about the endless displays of pulchritudinous flesh, the orgies in particula ..
The Guardian
4.0
Ive watched it twice in quick succession now, and though it skirts the edge of cliche, the sheer sustained blitz of bad taste is spectacular.
The Guardian
4.0
The Wolf of Wall Street, for all its abundant appeal, is no Greek tragedy.
The Guardian
1.5
For all its avowed adult aesthetic, theres something leeringly adolescent about the endless displays of pulchritudinous flesh, the orgies in particula ..
The Guardian
5.0
It merely barges ahead just like its drug and alcohol fueled characters.
Mountain X
5.0
It sure doesnt not in this exuberant but profitless bad behavior romp.
Npr
5.0
The Wolf of Wall Street is a fleet footed three hours of startling moments, 99 percent of them hedonistic and hilarious.
Star Tribune
1.0
Still, at the very least I expected an entertaining movie especially from one of my favorite directors and a great actor like DiCaprio.Sadly, they bot ..
Reel Talk Reviews
4.4
There is nothing to admire about Belfort and his unseemly accomplishments, and Scorseses film rings true in the way it simply overwhelms us with the g ..
Q Network
3.0
For me the film is somehow less than the sum of its parts, with no palpable sense that these men are doing anything more contemptible than living life ..
Daily Mail
3.8
As bad judgment and paranoia take hold and the high rollers get careless about stashing their loot in Swiss banks, Wolfs pace never stops panting.And ..
Ew
5.0
Scorsese assembles an amazing ensemble cast in easily one of the most admirably demented and darkly comedic dramas hes ever created.
Cinema Crazed
2.5
Epic in size but claustrophobically narrow in scope, The Wolf of Wall Street maintains a near exclusive focus on the greed and self indulgence of its ..
Slate
3.0
But the director has examined brotherly love once too many times before.
Flim List
5.0
Its big but not Gangs Of New York epic, and it finally seems as though Scorsese is once again interrogating the material, finding the substance of the ..
Empire
4.0
Cynical, unconventional and edgy its horrifying and absurdly hilarious.
Susang Ranger
5.0
You get it all in lush, knockout set pieces that look like they were designed for Technicolor.No wonder Leo smelled a film with enough excess to make ..
Observer
5.0
And it is the best and most enjoyable American film to be released this year.
Sf Gate
5.0
Its furious cinematic inventions are no mere flourishes; theyre essential to Scorseses vision of Belforts story, and to the disturbing moral ideas tha ..
New Yorker
4.5
After 23 years, Scorsese has delivered a rejiggered version of his 1990 mob masterpiece GoodFellas for a new generation.
Boston Herald
2.5
But Scorseses keyed up, irreverent tone frequently fails to distinguish itself from the grunting arias sung by the oily paragons of commerce his film ..
Slant Magazine
3.1
Belfort is too scuzzy, the material culture he inhabits too bland and superficial, to create that kind of vicarious sympathy.But nor does the film eve ..
Washington Post
4.0
The party just keeps getting bigger.Scorsese, 71, portrays all this with the sort of rip snorting energy and attention to detail youd associate with a ..
Express
4.5
How half brained masculine and economic mentalities are channeled to a mutual, logical, terrible climax in one of the years more terrifying final shot ..
The Film Stage
2.5
Adapting screenwriter Terence Winter intends Belforts story to be an increasingly galling cautionary tale, but without the overt finger wagging that w ..
Chicago Tribune
3.8
The actor does the impossible, keeping us on the side of this contemptible antihero through sheer confidence and the occasional glimmer of regret.
Reeling Reviews
4.0
Probably its no more dense with profanity than any other Scorsese flick, but with a directors best length one minute under three hours the same number ..
Flickfilosopher
3.0
It hardly needs to be said that its brilliantly edited and superbly acted Jonah Hill is hilarious as Belforts slippery lieutenant but the endless repe ..
The Irish Times
5.3
And thats my problem: far too often, I was repelled and wanted to look away.There is much to admire in the masterful filmmaking and superior performan ..
Blogs Indie Wire
3.8
But whether it has anything insightful to say about America, its characters and its universe is debatable.
Blogs Indie Wire
2.5
At three hours, Wolf is Scorseses longest movie to date, but it probably should have been one of his shortest.
Las Vegas Weekly
5.0
8 things to watch out for this week Feature Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 multiplayer beta debuts on PS4, Monster Hunter World hits PC and Better Call Sau ..
Total Film
5.0
Its a part that straddles drama and dark comedy and is perfect for the actor.
ReelViews
5.0
The wages of greed and excess portrayed in grand, operatic, often very funny style.
Hollywood Reporter
3.5
The movie plays like a masters course in cinematic technique delivered by the master himself, crammed with giddy effects and visual jokes.
The Atlantic
2.5
This is one of DiCaprios career best performances and its a shame the movie doesnt match his outstanding effort.
Lyles Movie Files
4.5
DiCaprios damn good enough that you actually kind of like Belfort; hes so shamelessly breaking the law that theres a sense of illicit complicity for t ..
Birth Movies Death
4.0
Its wonderfully kinetically filmed too, the camera moving us through scenes with such confidence, sharply edited as always by Thelma Schoonmaker.
Standard
3.0
Compiled with more than 40 hours of interviews with Coach Wooden, learn about the man behind the coach.
Tony Medley
3.5
Of course the wolf never asks for anything he wouldnt do himself.
Los Angeles Times
4.0
Nor have Scorsese and screenwriter Terence Winter brought any retroactive moralizing to bear on the material.
Variety
4.5
Clocking in at 179 minutes, Wolf sets a record as Scorseses longest fiction film (one minute longer than Casino), but that doesnt make it his most amb ..
Variety
4.4
Though this get angry epic clocks in at three hours of brazen bad behavior, its also a finely calibrated pitch black comedy.
Groucho Reviews
4.5
Which brings me to the central problem with The Wolf: it doesnt feel like a Scorsese film.
Firstpost
4.5
Jonathan Glazers sci fi thriller is really about alienation than aliens.
Firstpost
4.8
Benedict Cumberbatch Wants You To Know He *Is* The Motherf*cking Grinch The Grinch star takes Mike Ryan through the final scenes of Avengers: Infinity ..
Hit Fix
5.0
Wickedly funny, smart as a whip, and immensely perceptive, The Wolf of Wall Street shows that being addicted to money is every bit as damaging as addi ..
Aisle Seat
3.5
I genuinely fear an entire generation of young would be financial gurus seeing this film as their Scarface, reveling in the wish fulfillment excess wh ..
Forbes
5.0
This is a story about financial extremes and the attempt is to make us look past the surface and comprehend the deeper message.The film does not conde ..
Forbes
2.5
Exacerbating matters is the acting, as De Niro delivers an outrageously over the top performance that effectively leaves Minnelli with little to do ex ..
Reel Film
4.4
Why would a man cheat people out of millions and then spend it on hookers, ludes and stupid pranks Hey, why wouldnt you
Nj
4.0
If director as talented as Martin Scorsese tackles the subject of Wall Street greed, its probably appropriate for us to expect a little greatness, a m ..
Movie Habit
3.8
Its the best and funniest scene in the movie, and McConaughey sadly exits the picture before too much longer.
The Star
4.2
At a full three hours, the movie flirts with wearing out its welcome about two thirds through, but recovers to end up an exhausting, operatic black co ..
Oregon Live
4.0
This is a hell of a ride and ultimately of course, a morality tale.
Urban Cine File
4.4
The Wolf of Wall Street is a hilarious, angry, and scathing indictment of greed. Its so funny you might not notice how deep it cuts.
Movies Tv Guide
4.5
The story is based on Jordan Belforts 2007 memoir, in which the crooked financier relived with vigour his spectacular rise and fall.
The Age
5.0
As the old saying goes, whom the gods would drive mad they first grant their every wish.
Maki At The Movies
3.0
The unholy exorbitance of nudity, cursing, and snorting cocaine correlates directly to the plentiful comedic scenes.
2.0
Has it come to this.Jordan Belforts (DiCaprio) rise from a Wall Street coffee boy cum phone broker to a master of The Street is an extremely clever fi ..
Varia Gate
4.0
Still, as an exercise in total entertainment this succeeds with aplomb.
Digital Spy
3.5
Scorsese shows it all, a barker at an energetically designed peep show.For a while its a voyeuristic kick.
Tamp A Bay
1.9
Handsome, sporadically amusing and admittedly never boring but also bloated, redundant, vulgar, shapeless and pointless ...
New York Post
4.0
Though brilliantly written (by Boardwalk Empires Terence Winter), acted and directed, Wolf is dangerously overlong.
Flicks
3.1
Despite its conventional arc and limited interests, its impossible to deny the vicarious pleasures of The Wolf of Wall Street, a success if it creates ..
Red Eye Chicago
4.4
Darkly funny, sexually explicit and fearlessly disturbing all at once, anchored by Leonardo DiCaprio in a deliriously brilliant performance.
Dustin Put Man
4.5
The film is an often thrilling series of set pieces that roll out in waves of comedy, tragedy and farce as these people play on the edge of an abyss.
Contact Music
4.4
When the price rises, Jordan and the boys sell off and leave their customers with what inevitably turns out to be worthless paper.(Stratton Oakmonts r ..
Ar Kansas Online
4.5
just because The Wolf of Wall Street is hilarious doesnt mean its not terrifying
Film Racket
1.9
If you like the sound of hollow laughter, youll have a blast with The Wolf of Wall Street.Martin Scorseses vaguely moralistic black comedy about the r ..
Larsen On Film
4.4
in the wrong. Thats for sure. But to walk away and not realize were at least a little complicit, too, would be foolhardy.
Christianity Today
5.0
Never mind protestations that this is a cautionary tale, a moral fable, blah blah blah.
Hollywood And Fine
4.0
Its hard to believe that one can possess that much hunger for power.
Refinery 29
5.0
Again, it helps that DiCaprio surrenders himself onscreen like hes never really surrendered before.
4.2
Nope.The stockbroking game is not about picking winners and losers.
The Film Pie
3.8
The tone is sustained hysteria; the story feels rambling rather than sprawling.
Js Online
4.0
The Wolf of Wall Street Synopsis A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, the ..
Movie Web
4.5
Despite my bladder nearly not making it after 3 hours, thankfully the true story of Jordan Belfort kept me completely distracted and entertained at th ..
Hollywood Chicago
5.0
Havent we all seen enough of those movies about the perils of excess.The argument that Scorseses film is hollow under its flashy, party going surface ..
Hollywood Chicago
4.0
It merely presents them without comment, allowing for the sheer kinetic energy of the picture to act as a kind of a tacit endorsement.Belforts shenani ..
Cinemix Tape
4.5
Scorseses fifth pairing with Leonardo DiCaprio is a very different movie for them as well, because however you slice it, this is definitely meant to b ..
ComingSoon
4.5
Scorsese is giving you the chance to escape your reality for three hours to live it up.
Shockya
5.0
The Wolf of Wall Street isnt Scorseses finest hour: its a shade too long and doesnt dwell long enough on its antiheros eventual downfall.
One Room With A View
4.0
But true or not, the lack of breathing space here becomes its own point, as deadening a surfeit of pleasure as anything since the shooting up sequence ..
Sbs
4.5
In Leonardo DiCaprios words, this is a film thats bold, daring, and dangerous.
Solzy At The Movies
5.0
And its hard to get bored when a story has as much pure debauchery as this one.
Flavor Wire
5.0
Its an operatic ode to greed, gluttony, selfishness, taking advantage of people and watching out for No. 1.Its a comedy.
Daily Herald
5.0
Jonah Hill is a magnificent foil, all buck teeth and belly; Jean Dujardin is delightfully sleazy as a comical Swiss intermediate.
The Shiz Nit
5.0
Thats a testament to Scorseses outstanding direction and Terence Winters masterful screenplay.
Awards Circuit
3.0
You can curse me for pissing on Scorceses statue.Ill get back to you in a few years.
Crave Online
5.0
If this nonstop barrage of taboo subject material is necessary to accurately transcribe Jordans memoirs then so be it regardless of who the film offen ..
What Culture
4.4
But Scorseses in your face exploration of Wall Street swindling and powertripping isnt a cheesy wallow designed for the raincoat crowd.
Mercury News
3.1
Its every Scorsese confrontation rendered in groggy, super slo mo.Funny, no
Bitly
3.0
It has the vague, baggy feel of the semi improvised, and like the San Pedro cactus, boiling this film down to extract its essence takes an age and may ..
Scots Man
4.0
Thats just the first surprise this outrageously hilarious, Oscar nominated, Wall Street meets The Hangover cocktail has stuffed in its back pocket.
Metro
4.4
Its impossible not to relent to its hallucinatory style, and you may begin to feel a little under the influence yourself.
Scene Stealers
4.5
Who knows but its great fun while it lasts.Anyone else for jerking off
The Ooh Tray
4.0
The greed and recklessness is the same, though, as DiCaprios fast talking anti hero and his growing team of eager underlings rip off gullible investor ..
What So
4.0
Whatever the movies flaws, its a great Rabelaisian entertainment whose grimy pleasures cant be denied.
reason
3.0
When Wolf of Wall Street focuses on Belforts business and stays in the workplace, it is at its best, taking viewers on an exhilarating ride... But, od ..
Bowling Green Daily News
4.5
Its a truly upsetting moment, mostly thanks to her plastered on smile betraying the emotional terror of the moment.The Wolf of Wall Street earns its m ..
Streaming Quickflix
3.5
Its the funniest scene ever in a Scorsese film.The action and voiceover are hilarious.
Tony Mack
3.5
It is black comedy at its very darkest; a chronicle of depravity that at once amuses and nauseates.
Concrete Play Ground
2.0
Despite the slick visuals and clever manipulation of the script, I saw nothing in Jordan Belfort.
Rediff
5.0
It is a slapstick tour de force that deserves to stand with Jerry Lewis and Laurel & Hardy.
New Republic
5.0
Along with its three hour runtime, this baggy plotting may make Wolf a somewhat harder sell to audiences but its a deeper movie than The Departed amon ..
Bfi
4.2
That doesnt happen without making it look like the best time ever for two hours, however.
From The Balcony
4.0
In betwixt these benchmarks theres a scurrilous surplus of hookers, drugs, and enough obscene decadence to numb either extreme of the political and/or ..
Ion Cinema
2.0
Movies shouldnt provide moral instruction but the best incorporate competing philosophies.
New States Man
5.0
The litany about the virtue of drugs in the accumulation of money and power seethes, See.Enough of this shit will make you invincible.
New City Film
1.0
If a movie lovers idea of spending three hours watching grown men fondle every woman in their work place, snort coke out of a prostitutes butt and lis ..
Review Express
3.5
Well worth a watch, especially if you like your entertainment larger than life.
Future Movies
4.0
Scorsese has crafted a three hour epic that is never boring, getting by (like its protagonists) on a cocktail of drugs, sheer energy and will.
Fan The Fire Magazine
5.0
Scorseses best film since Casino, his most provocative since Goodfellas and by far the funniest film hes ever made.
Daily Star
2.3
Not only is this scene agonizingly slow but it really serves very little narrative purpose.
Daily Film Fix
4.4
Its another variation on Scorseses favorite kind of a story, the rise and fall. In this case, he and frequent collaborator Leonardo DiCaprio go on a f ..
Columbus Alive
3.1
Thats not to say theres much thats worthwhile in this endless cacophony of gunfire, explosions, grunts, yelps, maniacal laughter, and Jean Claude Van ..
Film Frenzy
4.4
Scorseses longtime editor, triple Oscar winner Thelma Schoonmaker, keeps up this exhausting pace for an impossible 179 minutes.
Sf Examiner
5.0
For three hours the movie operates at a ridiculous comedic pitch.You never forget youre at the circus.
Grant Land
4.0
The scene where Jordan and Donnie trip on a highly potent strain of the drug is easily one of the funniest sequences of the year, and a perfect exampl ..
Blog Bullz Eye
3.8
For three hours.PHOTOS: 30 most romantic movies of all time Welcome to Martin Scorseses exhilarating and exhaustive ode to Wall Street debauchery.
Us Magazine
4.5
And dont tell me were living in a gentler, kinder America than the Gordon Gekko days of the 80s and the halcyon surplus of the Clinton presidency.
Spectrum Culture
4.0
Glorification may not be an intention but may be a consequence, as the mania of DiCaprios performance which seems like his best ever or at least his h ..
Sf Weekly
5.0
Film is hella long, but the performances are to die for from DiCaprio, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughty. Not to mention that this madness is based o ..
Wp Me
3.5
Its hard though not to leave this film disappointed, knowing that the story glosses over the depth of these characters and oftentimes settles for the ..
Johnhanlon Reviews
5.0
Winter and Scorsese posit key characters as the essential ingredients of Belforts life.
Graffiti With Punctuation
3.5
Alas, Wolf is a remarkable if not great two hour Scorsese movie that clocks in at three hours.I can see why Scorsese wanted no part in killing his dar ..
Honey Cutts Hollywood
5.0
But this seems entirely in keeping with its shamelessly shallow subject, as does the indulgent three hour running time.
Sky
2.0
Terence Winters script is unwieldy, as if a mini series is trying to break out of it.This movie just wont end.
Metro Active
4.0
Both are terrific, buoyed by the throbbing pulse of Scorseses camera.
Richard Crouse
4.4
This is an oddly childish way to look at things.Did anyone think the deeply funny American Psycho was a celebration of 1980s excess
Free Beacon
2.0
It doesnt say anything new about this world, but it says it with such funny and unique intensity.
Mac Guff
3.5
Scorsese makes an important distinction: these scenes arent a fun ride or a romp.
Impulse Gamer
3.5
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Richard Roeper
5.0
Its always a treat to see some of the most talented people in Hollywood collaborate togetherwhen the final product equals the sum of its parts, you ge ..
Schmoes Know
3.0
From a film making perspective, much of what is here is masterful, and lets face it, we expect nothing less from Scorsese.
Ut Sandiego
5.0
Combining the darkly comic appeal of The King of Comedy, with the stylistic, cinematic fervour of Goodfellas, Martin Scorsese has returned with The Wo ..
Hey U Guys
4.0
The film carries on, much in the same vein, for three hours.Based on Belforts own memoir about getting insanely rich from conning investors, The Wolf ..
Rajeev Masand
3.0
This ranks with Scorseses recent best, and that fact alone speaks volumes.
2.5
Nearly three hours of repeated debauchery and nasty deeds fails to bring Goodfellas style bite and tension to a situation where the worst that can hap ..
The Diva Review
4.5
It epitomizes the corruption of the American dream in an extravagant way.
4.0
Abandoning critical distance for a full scale immersion in Belforts fast track lifestyle, the film itself is like an overdose, rendering the classic r ..
Cinema Scope
4.0
Whenever the pace lags though, the film bounces back with another riotous set piece, and for most of its running time, The Wolf Of Wall Street is a hi ..
Standard Net Au
5.0
Sometimes I think Martin Scorseses biggest flaw is that he makes creating masterpieces look so damn easy.
Bad Ass Digest
4.0
Its all hugely enjoyable, its one of the great Hollywood critiques of capitalism, and an unqualified triumph for Scorsese and an electric Leonardo DiC ..
Patrick Nabarro
4.0
A no holds barred hedonistic ride into the 1990s financial world that lasts just five seconds short of three hours, its Roman orgy style excesses beco ..
Birmingham Mail
4.0
You might find yourself liking the bad guy and overlooking the little people in this story, which is what makes it such a weirdly uncomfortable and sa ..
The Mercury
5.0
There is much to be said for that impressively controlled French thriller, not least that it brings a warm breath of summer into the winter months.
The Nation
4.0
Scorsese may be calling the shots but Belforts character is the gatekeeper of the narrative.
The Popcorn Junkie
5.0
But its not; this is tightly controlled filmmaking in the guise of something running amok, and its actually that sense of dread, risk and danger that ..
Bangkok Post
2.0
Trim an hour of the repetitive smut and insert a cohesive thesis for DiCaprios performance to rely on and maybe this would have earned all the praise ..
The Reader (Omaha, NE)
1.5
We want to get lost in what These phony financiers fun sexcapades and coke binges Come on, we know the truth.
World Socialist Web Site
4.0
In many ways it also probably has more vulgarity.There is more than a little dry wit.
Leepers Us
3.5
It brings no holds bared machismo to a closed hothouse environment.
Oc Register
3.1
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Cinema Phile 2010 Blog Spo ..
5.0
Scorsese directs with propulsive purpose, feeding off DiCaprios manic energy. Their work is fierce and unforgettable.
M Live
5.0
Though the performances and screenplay are scintillating, it is master editor Thelma Schoonmakers cutting that makes this 3 hour epic fly by.
Fox News
5.0
As frenetic as the film is as a whole, Scorsese knows to make the scant quiet moments count, and the performances make these scenes linger in the memo ..
The Movie Report
3.1
Its a barely passable movie, but one that should have been so much better.
Dc5
4.5
The problem is that neither this comic frame, nor the undoubted elan of Scorseses direction, nor the paciness of Thelma Schoonmakers editing, ever mak ..
Projected Figures
4.5
In many respects thats how The Wolf of Wall Street is structured.
2.5
As Johnny Rotten famously asked, ever get the feeling youve been cheated
Events Austin 360
3.5
Although both Abscam and the Belfort tale are ripe for social commentary, the primary goal of these two prestige directors is to make entertaining fil ..
Louis Proyect
1.0
At three hours long, The Wolf of Wall Street also stands as a monument to the characters flair for excess.
Television Without Pity
4.5
Review Summary: With the way popular cinema is today, the chance to see a new Martin Scorsese picture on the big screen is just the reminder I needed ..
Chris Stuck Mann
4.0
LESSON #3: MONEY AND GREED WILL MAKE YOU FEEL INVINCIBLE Money will make you think you are better than someone that doesnt have it.
Every Movie Hasalesson
1.5
The story certainly has epic qualities that should easily translate to screen and ask some questions about greed, materialism, and even capitalism.I t ..
Patheos
5.0
Funny Yes. Entertaining Yes. Flattering Not in the slightest. Anyone who wants to be in the Jordan Belfort business after watching Wolf must have rock ..
The Crat
4.5
Its fun and funny and brilliant and hilarious and just kills it with THE EXCESS.
4.5
Before the indictment for fraud and money laundering, theres a standout scene, physical comedy no less, involving DiCaprio and Hill.
5.0
But around the time of Belforts delayed reaction to a gobbled down fistful of highly potent quaaludes, the caustic, hilarious tone is compromised by w ..
Art Forum
3.8
Its entertaining as hell and the comedy arguably works better than in Anchorman, but would Anchorman still be as funny if Ron Burgundy was a real pers ..
Filmdrunk Uproxx
4.5
But as a bacchanalian celebration or cautionary tale, character study or chronicle of an industry, The Wolf of Wall Street is as intoxicating to audie ..
Spin Off Comic Book Resour ..
3.0
Its just too bad Scorsese and Winter didnt bear down a little harder and truly get past the surface of the story, but instead they seem content to enj ..
Cinephiled
4.5
Wolf of Wall Street is a cinematic amphetamine.It moves at break neck speed for almost three hours and after, youll leave the theater wanting the gym.
Movies With Butter
4.5
The Wolf of Wall Street may implicitly feign moral indignation, but it also suffers from its own Belfortian tunnel vision.
In These Times
5.0
Scorsese captures, for the better part of three hours, the main players completing the aforementioned tasks with equal doses of hilarity and tragedy.
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