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‘The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street’ is eye-popping but not as good as the book

The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street
The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street Photo: BBC/Getty Images/Dimitrios Kambouris

Documentary The PM, the Playboy and the Wolf of Wall Street

Corruption scandals can make for boring documentaries. The crimes often take place in the deepest, dullest recesses of organisational bureaucracy — for obvious reasons — and the confidential sources who tip off reporters or documentarians are rarely eager to tell their stories on screen.

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