10 Best & 10 Worst Movies Of The Decade (Year-By-Year)

14. 2013's Best - The Wolf Of Wall Street

The Wolf Of Wall Street
Paramount Pictures

While it faced some accusations of perverse fetishism of crime and debauchery, the very first trailers for The Wolf Of Wall Street set out the film's stall immediately. This was always going to be a "pure" Scorsese film and it never falls to the director to lead your moral reaction to his stories.

Leonardo DiCaprio is incredibly charming, very funny and surprisingly deep as Jordan Belfort, who tumbles through the less-than-legal world of stockbroking (authorised ripping off) with the same sort of escalation as Henry Hill did in Goodfellas. It's all a lurid, sexually charged exercise in disbelief and it's hard not to be utterly charmed by it.

You know, despite all the drugs and the crime. Like every Scorsese.

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