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- Netflix
- Jan 4, 2023
- Netflix
- Jan 4, 2023
Summary The four-part documentary series from Joe Berlinger looks at Bernie Madoff's life and the $64 billion dollar Ponzi scheme with recreations, Madoff's deposition footage, interviews with experts and former employees.
- Netflix
- Jan 4, 2023
- Netflix
- Jan 4, 2023
MADOFF: The Monster of Wall Street
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jan 4, 2023
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Summary The four-part documentary series from Joe Berlinger looks at Bernie Madoff's life and the $64 billion dollar Ponzi scheme with recreations, Madoff's deposition footage, interviews with experts and former employees.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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80% Positive
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20% Mixed
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"The Monster of Wall Street" will be, to no one's surprise, a complex series and downbeat story, but one that is told with enormous style and narrative energy.
It’s not as flashy as his serial killer exposes, but it does take a very complex issue and unpack it in a way that’s easy to follow.
Scotto is seen in numerous re-creations, either as an enigmatic mystery man with a chilling smile who says nothing, or a shadowy figure moving through Wall Street, alternately charming and bullying his employees, including his brother Peter and his sons Andrew and Mark. It’s an effective technique that supplies some much-needed color to proceedings that can get a little dry, though for the most part Berlinger makes great use of interviews with the expected roster of investigative journalists, former associates, financial experts, et al.
Despite the distracting reenactments, Madoff: The Monster of Wall Street imparts a lot of good information about Madoff’s psyche, the structure of his Ponzi scheme, and why people invested in it in the first place.
It’s all very entertaining, what with the New York Stock Exchange-style display graphics running along the bottom of the screen, slow-mo actor re-enactments, and requisite shots of apoplectic brokers on the trading floor. But I think I’m done with being entertained by the true crimes of unaccountable men.
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