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Critics Consensus: The Wizard of Lies doesn't really shed much new light on its fact-based story, but thanks to solid direction and a talented cast, it still proves consistently watchable.
Critic Consensus: The Wizard of Lies doesn't really shed much new light on its fact-based story, but thanks to solid direction and a talented cast, it still proves consistently watchable.
All Critics (46) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (12)
It's not a terrible piece of work, but the most you can claim for it is a kind of bloodless competence.
The Wizard of Lies is a movie with a terrible name and some mediocre aspects. But great central performances from two icons of the silver screen make it necessary watching.
What Wizard of Lies lacks in terms of a broader historical span is compensated for by telling Madoff's tale as a classical tragedy about hubris and human cost - only in this case we watch as the villain's wife and children take the brunt of the toll.
[The Wizard of Lies] achieves its greatest power as a character study.
As Ruth, Pfeiffer convincingly portrays a pampered woman left with utterly nothing - she's lost her homes, status and, most important, her relationship with her sons.
At the end, there is a payoff of sorts for the viewer.
...an uneven yet sporadically engrossing drama from a first-class filmmaker.
It's a film that heads down an interesting path with incredibly talented people, only to fail to go the extra mile in exploring these characters.
Mostly ... you can't really shake the Made-For-TV vibe that The Wizard of Lies throws off.
Classy and solidly watchable in an HBO kind of way, it nevertheless offered a few bizarre turns.
[Robert] De Niro's interpretation of this greed-driven, grandiose villain is not sympathetic; it's intimate and unforgiving, and makes Madoff a more frustrating figure than ever.
As choppy and dragging as it may be at times, and although it doesn't offer any revelations, The Wizard Of Lies is an intimate and sobering look at family betrayal.
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