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With Wall Street, Oliver Stone delivers a blunt but effective -- and thoroughly well-acted -- jeremiad against its era's veneration of greed as a means to its own end.
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The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to. Sep 18, 2007 | Full Review…
The sensibility of this movie is so adolescent that it's hard to take it as seriously as the filmmakers intend us to.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Watching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur. Sep 18, 2007 | Full Review…
Watching Oliver Stone's Wall Street is about as wordy and dreary as reading the financial papers accounts of the rise and fall of an Ivan Boesky-type arbitrageur.
Variety Staff
Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its naïve moralising. Jan 26, 2006 | Full Review…
Dramatically inept, the film also muddles its naïve moralising.
Geoff Andrew
Wall Street isn't a movie to make one think. It simply confirms what we all know we should think, while giving us a tantalizing, Sidney Sheldon-like peek into the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful. May 20, 2003 | Rating: 2.5/5
Wall Street isn't a movie to make one think. It simply confirms what we all know we should think, while giving us a tantalizing, Sidney Sheldon-like peek into the boardrooms and bedrooms of the rich and powerful.
Vincent Canby
With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
With its posturing politics and cardboard characterizations, Wall Street is not up to [Oliver Stone's] past standards.
Rita Kempley
In Wall Street...you will see the evil, capitalistic impulses of man. Towards the end, you will see the self-righteous impulses of liberal finger-waggers. It's hard to tell which is worse. Jan 1, 2000 | Full Review…
In Wall Street...you will see the evil, capitalistic impulses of man. Towards the end, you will see the self-righteous impulses of liberal finger-waggers. It's hard to tell which is worse.
Desson Thomson
Michael Douglas has a splendid part here, and tackles it with relish. Aug 30, 2018 | Full Review…
Michael Douglas has a splendid part here, and tackles it with relish.
Hilary Mantel
The conflict may be familiar, but Stone brings the mystery of Wall Street's heros and villains, its big-stakes players and two-bit salesmen into sharp focus. It's a look that is both exhilarating and astounding. Oct 11, 2016 | Full Review…
The conflict may be familiar, but Stone brings the mystery of Wall Street's heros and villains, its big-stakes players and two-bit salesmen into sharp focus. It's a look that is both exhilarating and astounding.
Cathy Burke
...an eye-opening behind-the-scenes glimpse at an almost alien landscape. Nov 8, 2010 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
...an eye-opening behind-the-scenes glimpse at an almost alien landscape.
David Nusair
For a motion picture that, at the time of shooting, was intended to be relatively hip and cutting-edge, it is now so laughably outdated it almost feels like science-fiction. Sep 23, 2010 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
For a motion picture that, at the time of shooting, was intended to be relatively hip and cutting-edge, it is now so laughably outdated it almost feels like science-fiction.
Dustin Putman
Like the rest of Stone's oeuvre, it's about as subtle as a sledgehammer. But his filmmaking style is like heavy metal: When he hits the right chords, nobody plays with as much power or brash energy. Sep 20, 2010 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review…
Like the rest of Stone's oeuvre, it's about as subtle as a sledgehammer. But his filmmaking style is like heavy metal: When he hits the right chords, nobody plays with as much power or brash energy.
Christopher Lloyd
Some of the 1980s-era details may seem a bit dated, and the movie's attitude toward women is slightly despicable, but the overall story arc, echoing the "Faust" tale, is timeless. Apr 16, 2010 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Some of the 1980s-era details may seem a bit dated, and the movie's attitude toward women is slightly despicable, but the overall story arc, echoing the "Faust" tale, is timeless.
Jeffrey M. Anderson
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