The Wizard of Lies (2017) - Movie Reviews - Page 4 of 4

61-78 of 78 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 18 May 2017

A team-up of talents like this would've been a big, splashy theatrical release not too long ago. The multiplex's loss is HBO's gain…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By John Doyle (19) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 18 May 2017

At the end, there is a payoff of sorts for the viewer…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Hank Stuever (48) for Washington Post (9,851) on 18 May 2017

The decision by Wizard's three credited screenwriters to open the film with the prison interview (and essentially tell the whole saga as a…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Simon Abrams (730) for Guardian (4,584) on 18 May 2017

We may be wrong to look for scapegoats for the 2008 global financial criss, but by normalizing Madoff's behavior, The Wizard of Lies thoughtlessly…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Brian Tallerico (1,600) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 18 May 2017

The 135-minute film suffers from being too long and sometimes bizarrely constructed, but it's the kind of solid true story we've come to expect…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN.com (607) on 18 May 2017

The trappings of Wizard of Lies are, like Madoff's possessions, designed to impress…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Lorraine Ali (13) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 18 May 2017

As Ruth, Pfeiffer convincingly portrays a pampered woman left with utterly nothing - she's lost her homes, status and, most important, her…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Glenn Garvin (10) for Reason Online (497) on 18 May 2017

Having expressed every cogent thought in its head in the first 50 minutes, Wizard drags along for another tortuously repetitive hour and half,…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Matt Roush (19) for TV Insider (10) on 18 May 2017

This stark account of a family's downfall has the wrenching power of an Arthur Miller classic…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Verne Gay (30) for Newsday (2,345) on 17 May 2017

De Niro and Pfeiffer inhabit these roles so fully that you forget they're De Niro and Pfeiffer - no small feat considering their statures…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Gail Pennington (25) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 17 May 2017

Madoff proves too slippery for clear characterization, even for the combined talents of Levinson and De Niro, and the result is a film that…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Darren Franich (64) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 17 May 2017

The Wizard of Lies is less convincingly about Bernie Madoff than it is about the struggle to understand Bernie Madoff: The search for why and…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Mark A. Perigard (18) for Boston Herald (1,433) on 17 May 2017

When Bernie finally asks whether an attentive reporter thinks he's a sociopath, there's no need for an answer…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Christopher Lawrence (234) for Las Vegas Review-Journal (433) on 17 May 2017

While it's a relief to once again see De Niro in a quality project that has nothing to do with Martin Scorsese or David O…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Matthew Gilbert (50) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 16 May 2017

Once we turn to the psychological fallout, and Levinson gives us a more intimate point of view, The Wizard of Lies is captivating…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Ben Travers (14) for indieWire (3,631) on 14 May 2017

The Wizard of Lies isn't interested in gray areas. It wants you to see what the victims saw, and from a similarly pained perspective…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Kristi Turnquist (9) for Oregonian (1,550) on 14 May 2017

The Wizard of Lies spends much of its overlong two hours and 15 minutes running time repeating how Madoff's crimes victimized members of his family…

Read Review

Review of The Wizard of Lies (2017)

By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 13 May 2017

The Wizard of Lies bears less of a resemblance to art than a book report…

Read Review

Page 4 of 4

More reviews of this movie:

Perhaps you were looking for:

Robert De Niro - Top 5 movies:

Kristen Connolly - Top 5 movies:

Michelle Pfeiffer - Top 5 movies:

Movies you might like:

To Kill a Mockingbird

1962

85%751 Reviews

Catch Me If You Can

2002

81%907 Reviews

The Grapes of Wrath

1940

85%709 Reviews

Almost Famous

2000

79%828 Reviews

Soldier of Orange

1977

77%53 Reviews

Cruel Intentions

1999

71%680 Reviews

Murder Most Foul

1964

71%22 Reviews

Interview with the Vampire

1994

75%646 Reviews

Gandhi

1982

80%647 Reviews

Gone with the Wind

1939

86%825 Reviews

Manhattan

1979

82%683 Reviews

Bones and All

2022

70%83 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Midsommar

2019

69%207 Reviews

Blade Runner 2049

2017

80%2,332 Reviews

Past Lives

2023

84%62 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Barbarian

2022

72%115 Reviews

War for the Planet of the Apes

2017

78%1,656 Reviews

Everything Everywhere All at Once

2022

78%291 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

Purple Hearts

2022

56%11 Reviews

Godzilla vs. Kong

2021

66%184 Reviews