The most resounding criticism of Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" was that its rambunctious, excessive, extreme, vulgar manner was not, in fact, satire but an endorsement, and in fact a glorification, of Wall Streeters' behavior. No one made similar accusations of "Ratatouille."
Read More »What Milad Tangshir has done with this extremely well-researched and well-edited video essay on Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is actually several things.
Read More »Scout Tafoya's most recent installment in his "The Unloved" video essay series was on Martin Scorsese's "Bringing Out the Dead," a film describing the crazed and vaguely hallucinatory careenings of a New York ambulance driver played by Nicolas Cage, thrust up against life and death at their most intense.
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