Leonardo DiCaprio should get a supporting actor credit, so often is he namechecked in Cassius Michael Kim’s deft documentary about the brazen 1MDB Malaysian state fund scandal. Top billing goes to Jho Low, a Great Gatsby figure who, in cahoots with Goldman Sachs bankers and Malaysia’s former PM, is accused of swindling the country’s poorest out of some $1.42bn and is now on the run. He spent the money sucking up to Hollywood A-listers with lavish gifts and funding for the DiCaprio-starring movie The Wolf of Wall Street. Apt, since this documentary shares Scorsese’s theme of obscene greed, while Kuala Lumpur’s neon nightscape gives the feel of a Batman villain’s origin story. The Penguin, probably.
