The Wolf of Wall Street

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

Scorsese's three-hour bacchanalia of excess landed as one of the year's best films for many critics, who found it electrically alive and ferociously entertaining — but a vocal minority argued it mistakes depravity for depth and lets its subjects off the hook entirely. That second argument has never fully gone away, even as the film's reputation has grown considerably in the decade since its release.