The Wolf of Wall Street Reviews
It continues to provoke and entertain...
Full Review | Oct 12, 2023
... A sprawling riot of bad taste and consumption — and tremendously entertaining if you’re in the right mood.
Full Review | Nov 23, 2022
Scorsese depicts an intriguing and marvelously loathsome human beast in its natural setting, where the verdict on its judgment lies in the hands of its audience.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 19, 2022
"The Wolf of Wall Street" doesn't want to be lovable. It just wants to remind you how excessive wealth can get and catch you being entertained by it. You can't target excessiveness to hate without being excessive in its depiction.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 26, 2022
The Wolf of Wall Street...is an epic visual storytelling masterpiece from Martin Scorsese.
Full Review | Dec 24, 2021
The weakest of the five collaborations between Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio. There's little here that expands on corporate raider Gordon Gekko's mantra that "Greed ... is good."
Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 18, 2021
At three hours it's almost as excessive as Balfort's $26,000 dinners. It feels a bit long, but like the spoiled brats it portrays, it will not, and cannot, be ignored.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2021
Whatever the intentions of the filmmakers, The Wolf of Wall Street ends up wallowing in and pandering to the lifestyle it depicts.
Full Review | Feb 12, 2021
Conflict and, most surprisingly, consequences, are absent.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Dec 4, 2020
Margot Robbie makes a star-making turn.
Full Review | Original Score: 4.0/4.0 | Sep 27, 2020
Martin Scorsese has once again proven why he is one of the best filmmakers of his - or any - generation.
Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 24, 2020
In an all-too-familiar capitalism-gone-rogue world, [Scorsese] offers an uncompromising portrait of Wall Street hedonists' unscrupulous excesses.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 24, 2020
If this film doesn't shock you about how people abuse the system to get abundantly rich - I don't know what film will.
Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 16, 2020
This ranks with Scorsese's recent best, and that fact alone speaks volumes.
Full Review | Original Score: A | Jul 8, 2020
It epitomizes the corruption of the American dream in an extravagant way. [Full review in Spanish]
Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 25, 2020
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 on the true story of Jordan Belfort. So outrageous you would swear it wasn't real! It is!
Full Review | Jun 9, 2020
Martin Scorsese roars back to the screen with The Wolf of Wall Street, a three-hour marathon stuffed with dark humor, gross-out gags, a fistful of Quaaludes and one awesome performance by Leonardo DiCaprio.
Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5 | Nov 21, 2019
Trim an hour of the repetitive smut and insert a cohesive thesis for DiCaprio's performance to rely on and maybe this would have earned all the praise it has received.
Full Review | Original Score: B- | Aug 6, 2019
Terence Winter, creator and writer of The Sopranos, has written a marvelously comedic script, with howlingly funny bits of dialogue. But perhaps its most magnificent accent is the delightful DiCaprio in perhaps his best union yet with Scorsese.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 24, 2019
The Wolf of Wall Street isn't a film: it's a party. But so what? We're all invited.
Full Review | Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 8, 2019