The Wizard of Lies
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: May 21, 2017
User Score
6.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 34 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 34
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 34
  3. Negative: 3 out of 34

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  1. DarthSidious63
    May 21, 2017
    4
    If you want to watch a better Bernie Madoff biopic last years Madoff was superior than The Wizard of Lies. Granted Robert De Niro was better than Richard Dreyfus as Bernie Madoff but the story was so dull. It barely touched the rest of the Madoff family.

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#76 Most Shared TV Season of 2017

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 26 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 16 out of 26
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 26
  3. Negative: 0 out of 26
  1. Reason.com
    Reviewed by: Glenn Garvin
    May 20, 2017
    55
    This is all well and good, and might have made a good episode of Showtime's barbarous Wall Street drama Billions. But, having expressed every cogent thought in its head in the first 50 minutes, Wizard drags along for another tortuously repetitive hour and half, a long day's journey into utter banality.
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  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Lorraine Ali
    May 19, 2017
    70
    Acting in his first television project, the Oscar winner portrays Madoff as an emotion-free money machine, taking advantage where he can, easily convincing himself that the people he’s bilking are aware of the game he’s playing, making them willing participants in their own downfall.
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  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Robert Rorke
    May 19, 2017
    75
    The new movie achieves its greatest power as a character study.
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