The Wolf of Wall Street
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 25, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
75
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 47 Critic Reviews
Positive:
36
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottDec 23, 2013
With all of its excess, Wolf of Wall Street might not rank up there with Scorsese's best, it sure has fun trying. Read full review
50
TimeRichard CorlissDec 28, 2013
By buying the pitch that its central character’s escapades were the stuff of mesmerizing drama or comedy, Scorsese, Winter and DiCaprio reveal themselves as dupes — the latest in a long line of clever folks swindled by Jordan Belfort. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerDec 25, 2013
The film is almost three hours long and precious little of it feels new – not from Scorsese or from anybody else. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDec 24, 2013
The movie's benumbed by its own parade of bad behavior. Like some of Scorsese's other second-tier works — "Casino," "Bringing Out the Dead" — the gulf between virtuoso technical facility and impoverished material cannot be bridged. It's diverting, sort of, to see DiCaprio doing lines off a stripper's posterior, but after the 90th time it's like, enough already with heinous capitalistic extremes. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid DenbyDec 18, 2013
The Wolf of Wall Street is a fake. It’s meant to be an exposé of disgusting, immoral, corrupt, obscene behavior, but it’s made in such an exultant style that it becomes an example of disgusting, obscene filmmaking. It’s actually a little monotonous; spectacular, and energetic beyond belief, but monotonous in the way that all burlesques become monotonous after a while. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineEric HendersonDec 16, 2013
Martin Scorsese's keyed-up, irreverent tone frequently fails to distinguish itself from the grunting arias sung by the oily paragons of commerce his film evidently intended to deflate. Read full review
40
SlateDana StevensDec 25, 2013
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 proudly rapacious hero. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinDec 23, 2013
A veritable orgy of immorality, each scene making the same point only more and more outrageously, the action edited with Scorsese's usual manic exuberance but to oh-so-monotonous effect. Read full review
40
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekDec 19, 2013
There are hints of greatness, one or two artfully constructed scenes that remind you why you look forward to new Scorsese films in the first place. But as a highly detailed portrait of true-life corruption and bad behavior in the financial sector, Wolf is pushy and hollow, too much of a bad thing. Read full review
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