'The Wolf of Wall Street': A 'Gatsby' for Our Hollow Times

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Rachel Syme on “The Wolf of Wall Street” and “The Great Gatsby”: “Luhrmann’s film may be the ‘Gatsby’ that this generation deserves (Technicolor, attention-disordered, deafeningly loud, brimming with loose cultural pastiche), but Scorsese’s ‘Wolf’ is the ‘Gatsby’ that the current Wall Street demands—its dark cousin and perverse reflection.”

'The Wolf of Wall Street': A 'Gatsby' for Our Hollow Times

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There is no romance to Scorsese’s “The Wolf of Wall Street”—only a black heart where a green light should be.