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    <em>The Wizard of Lies</em>’s Brutal Portrait of Bernie Madoff

    The HBO film, starring Robert De Niro, finds little to love in its infamous protagonist.
    by David Sims May 16, 2017 4 minutes
    Source: HBO

    Over and over again in , the director Barry Levinson pushes his camera as close as he can to Bernie Madoff’s face, searching for flickers of emotion. As played by Robert De Niro, Madoff is taciturn and even-tempered—at least, after he reveals his part in the largest financial fraud in American history. It’s this devastating sense of calm and acceptance that fascinates Levinson most in his exploration of Madoff’s life, which almost entirely focuses on his experiences after he admitted to running a decades-long Ponzi scheme in 2008 and was turned over to the police by his children. Surely, there

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