![]() Like a Bad Santa, Scorsese has offered up for the holidays a truly wicked display of cinematic showmanship-one that also happens to be among his best pictures of the last 20 years. The Wolf of Wall Street is a magnificent black comedy, fast, funny, and remarkably filthy. None of which, incidentally, is intended as an indictment. ![]() If this is a message movie, it’s one that features a message suitable for a cue card. But the film displays almost no interest whatsoever in Belfort’s victims, and it is extravagantly incurious regarding the mechanisms by which he took their money. ![]() Yes, Martin Scorsese’s new feature is undeniably topical: the story of a rogue Wall Street trader, Jordan Belfort, who made himself and his partners fabulously wealthy at the expense of the broader American public and got off-even after multiple fraud convictions-nearly scot-free. Let’s be clear from the outset: The Wolf of Wall Street is not a “scathing indictment of capitalism run amok” or a “cautionary fable for our time” or any of the comparable high-minded plaudits that are likely to be thrown its way.
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