10 Modern Movies That Will Be Viewed As Classics In Years To Come

3. The Wolf Of Wall Street (2014)

When Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas was released in 1990, the critics were divided. There were criticisms of the film's apparent lack of morality and any sympathetic characters. Almost 25 years later, they were saying the same things about Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street. This was a film undoubtedly made by a master of cinema, a 71-year-old director investing more energy than most directors would in their 20s, but where was the soul? Most found Wolf to be an exhilarating, hilarious character study, and surely this will be the majority opinion held in years to come - The Wolf of Wall Street is Scorsese's best since Goodfellas, the film that so many compared Wolf to, but which has one big difference: this time, you're not supposed to sympathise with any of the characters. The Wolf of Wall Street may be laugh-out-loud funny - check out Matthew McConaughey McConaissancing it up in a surreal cameo - but it's as close as Scorsese has come to making a horror (Shutter Island notwithstanding) in the guise of a black comedy. Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), you see, is a psychopath, and The Wolf of Wall Street is the story of how he and his similarly unhinged associates steal from the poor to line their own pockets, wantonly ingest drugs and generally show care and concern for nobody but themselves. Wolf is a scary film, albeit a hugely entertaining one, and Scorsese mines from DiCaprio an iconic whirlwind of a performance.