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‘Riding High’: Film Review

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Real-estate chicanery leads to the high life — and eventually the jail cell — in Netflix's flashy but familiar criminal caper.

By Dennis Harvey Film Critic Fact-based “The Wolf of Wall Street” won criticism from some quarters for seeming to revel in its protagonist’s sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle, while barely chiding him for the predatory, large-scale financial fraud that funded it.

Cuneyt Kaya’s new “Riding High” offers a similar disconnect in its fictive tale of bold chicanery in the realm of high-end real estate, treating its heroes’ climb to ill-gotten wealth as a vicarious thrill ride, with scant attention paid to the victims they presumably bankrupt.

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