This month, Arrow are releasing a new 4K limited edition of this rollercoaster ride charting the highs and lows of Wall Street greed and excess. Back in the land of the sane and rational, I’m clearly not the only one who sees The Wolf of Wall Street as one of the jewels in Scorsese’s canon (and boy, are there a lot to choose from). Yet perhaps I should have expected nothing less from an article that found profundity in Captain America Civil War yet described Raging Bull as bad filmmaking (I promise you I’m not making this up).Īnyway, enough of that. I don’t know why that line stood out as a slap in the face among so many other spurious assessments I had always seen The Wolf of Wall Street as one of Scorsese’s late career crowning achievements, with a pace that grips you by the throat and then never lets go. I’ll just let you digest that one…) that seemed more intent on creating a social media storm than anything else, one dubious claim among dozens was that The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese’s 2013 biopic of Wall Street wunderkind Jordan Belfort, was achingly slow. In an inflammatory assessment of the legendary director (a choice quote, for example, was that Scorsese didn’t believe in cinema. Starring: ‎ Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, John Bernthal, Kyle ChandlerĪ recent opinion piece on Martin Scorsese for The Critic set Twitter on fire last month.

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