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| HBO | Release Date: May 21, 2017 |
Summary:
The rise and fall of Bernie Madoff's (Robert De Niro) Ponzi scheme is at the center of this Sam Levinson, Sam Baum, and John Burnham Schwartz's adaptation of Diana B. Henriques' book "The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust" and "Truth and Consequences," by Laurie Sandell.
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Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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IndieWire
May 15, 2017
May 17, 2017
Season 1 Review:
All these characters, including Bernie, come into focus only after The Wizard of Lies sets up the Madoff case, giving us an obligatory survey on the crime and how it played out. That material, which fills the first third of the film, is unnecessary. Once we turn to the psychological fallout, and Levinson gives us a more intimate point of view, The Wizard of Lies is captivating.
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May 19, 2017
May 15, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The Wizard of Lies doesn’t have the pop of “The Wolf of Wall Street” or “The Big Short” but it does its best to give viewers a look at a man who still seems like an enigma. Complexity aside, it gives De Niro one more notch on his belt of highly detailed, award-winning characters.
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May 18, 2017
Season 1 Review:
While the movie spends comparatively little time on the thousands of people Madoff defrauded (acknowledging them in a couple of brief but intense montages), it conveys the severity of his crimes in the devastation of his immediate family, showing how he did lasting damage to the people he loved most, and none of them ever understood why.
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May 15, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The Wizard of Lies doesn't refute that armchair outrage, which probably isn't possible or desirable anyway, but it's so pointedly lacking in empathetic imagination that one wonders why Levinson made the film, which bears less of a resemblance to art than a book report.
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Feb 2, 2020
Wow $65b ponzi scheme. Movie starts at the bust, from there seems to try to make him look good. The wife looks ignorant, but wikipedia says she was the book keeper It's a lot of rich people whining, disappointing.
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