The Wolf of Wall Street
(Paramount, $30)
Martin Scorsese’s “noisy, vulgar, over-the-top” tale about a real-life Wall Street swindler also happens to be “sensational entertainment,” said The New York Observer. Leonardo DiCaprio gives his “loosest, most passionate performance to date” while a “supercharged” Jonah Hill plays sidekick.
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The Great Beauty
(Criterion, $25)
This year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film is “a movie you visit, not merely watch,” said The Village Voice. A portrait of an aging Italian playboy just awakening to the emptiness of his life, it’s destined to go down as “one of the greatest films about modern social dissolution.”
Anchorman 2
(Paramount, $40)
If you loved Anchorman but were disappointed by this year’s sequel, the R-rated version won’t change your mind, said HuffingtonPost.com. But Will Ferrell and his cohorts have pulled off one more clever marketing trick: This supersize edition does deliver 763 additional jokes.
