Martin Scorsese’s Cult Comedy Thriller You Probably Missed Is Finally Hitting Netflix
Martin Scorsese’s turbocharged The Wolf of Wall Street roars onto Netflix this December, bringing Leonardo DiCaprio’s swaggering Jordan Belfort—and three hours of greed, excess, and jet‑black laughs—to a whole new wave of streamers.
Clear some space in your queue: Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street is about to hit Netflix. If you missed the mayhem back in 2013 or you just want to revisit the chaos, here's the rundown.
When and where to watch
The Wolf of Wall Street lands on Netflix on December 1, as first spotted by What's on Netflix.
Who is in it
- Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort
- Jonah Hill as Donnie Azoff
- Margot Robbie as Naomi Lapaglia
- Matthew McConaughey as Mark Hanna
- Kyle Chandler as FBI Agent Patrick Denham
What it's about (and why it still hits)
DiCaprio plays Jordan Belfort, a young, fast-talking stockbroker who builds a boiler-room empire called Stratton Oakmont and rides it straight into a blizzard of cash, drugs, and terrible decisions. The higher he climbs, the sloppier it gets, and eventually the SEC and the FBI show up to turn the party lights on. It's a big, loud, very funny rise-and-fall story that never pretends Belfort is a role model, even when it's laughing at the madness.
How it landed the first time
The film still sits at 79 percent on Rotten Tomatoes from 283 reviews, which tracks with how people reacted in 2013: a lot of praise for Scorsese's pedal-to-the-floor direction and DiCaprio going all-in. Forbes critic Mark Hughes put it like this:
"With his new release The Wolf of Wall Street, Scorsese has delivered his best work since that seminal mobster movie [Goodfellas]."
"DiCaprio delivers a powerhouse performance of complexity and true raw emotion, seeming to melt right into the Belfort persona. At times, he even reminded me a bit of Jack Nicholson. He is surrounded by a fantastic supporting cast."
Audiences showed up, too: the movie pulled in more than $400 million worldwide, including more than $116.9 million in the U.S., per Box Office Mojo.
Bottom line
If you have somehow never seen it, this is your easy entry point. If you have, you already know why people are going to be quoting chest thumps and quaaludes again all month.