10 Years Later, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ is Still a Scathing Critique of American Society

As the world anxiously awaits the arrival of Martin Scorsese’s latest epic, the three-and-a-half-hour The Killers of the Flower Moon, some enthusiastic cinephile is probably going through his entire oeuvre right now. It’s easy to log the early classics like Taxi Driver (1976) and Raging Bull (1980) on Letterboxd with five-star ratings without losing one’s credibility. The consensus is strong and endures, and to go against the grain decades later and claim that, say, Travis Bickle isn’t actually one of the greatest fictional characters ever created is foolish. But what to do about the late-career works whose reputations aren’t as settled in the culture? Is Gangs of New York (2002) still messy and unfocused,  <a href="https://aninjusticemag.com/10-years-later-the-wolf-of-wall-street-is-still-a-scathing-critique-of-american-society-28f2bdea4d0b">Learn More</a>