“The Wizard Of Lies” (** out of four) was a superficial drama centered around Bernie Madoff (Robert De Niro) whose corrupt empire crumbled when his Ponzi scheme was exposed as it defrauded $65 billion from unsuspecting victims and became the largest fraud in U.S. history. Director Barry Levinson bombards you with financial and personal details of Madoff and his family but never really tells you much about him you don’t already know and doesn’t get into his motivations or backstory leaving this film with a frustrating aloofness. De Niro is OK in the lead but Michelle Pfeiffer fares best as his struggling wife Ruth Madoff. This marks their fourth collaboration together.