2019 Directed by Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
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this movie starts us right off with a psychedelic colonoscopy to signify how clenched our asses will be for the next 2 hours and 15 minutes and i call this.... and i cannot stress this enough............... poetic cinema
UNCUT GEMS is the movie that Jews were promised in the Torah
UNCUT GEMS is gonna be the theme of my son’s bar mitzvah.
adam sandler sobbing “you can’t even get buried with me now” while looking at julia fox’s ass tattoo fucking destroys me.
If you're looking for a movie that will stress you out so much you'll claw the skin off your face, this is the one for you!
Not at all what I was expecting. I mean I knew it’d be tense and claustrophobic and well-acted (made a whole video on Sandler, he better give a great performance) but what I didn’t expect was how...huge this film is. The Safdie Brothers have historically tackled large themes with simpler plots and with a story this complex, despite a clear mastery of the techniques they’re known for, this feels like new territory. Uncut Gems is an inSANELY well thought out story with dozens of storylines working together (almost) perfectly. Feels like the darkest fairytale I’ve ever experienced.
It’s just too bad not a single member of the Academy watched this movie. If they had, Sandler would have been the first unanimous choice for Best Actor in the history of the Oscars. What a waste.
The helicopter service Blade didn't even exist until 2014, a whole two years after this film takes place. Absolutely sloppy filmmaking. Shameful.
But seriously, this film is absolutely fucking masterful. I know it's extremely weird and almost disrespectful to talk about films like this in terms of how they're awarded, but I really truly think this film is such a precise depiction of what "good directing" looks like that I'm gonna be absolutely shocked if the Safdies aren't at LEAST nominated for Best Director off of this movie. Also incredible sound design and mixing– so much of the tension in this film is built off the way the dialog overlaps so well and how sudden sounds land like firecrackers. I…
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Jesus fucking christ, what a picture. Goddamn. Major in every aspect, and an effortless evolution from Good Time's parasitic acid-trip of grime and privilege, especially as this strips away much of Good Time's chase-movie energy for something far more fruitless and sad. Uncut Gems plays to the tune of an exasperated study in commodity, running around until it passes out on the concrete, its specificity in the early-2010s giving way to a cosmic pain, a neon-glow of worthless lives and unending transactions. Yes, it's a very funny work, given substantial gravitas by Adam Sandler's god-tier performance, but only to heighten how sickly each frame and movement is, like a rabid dog on its last day, crawling under the porch…
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I have never coveted for anything more in my life than that Furby chain. I want it so bad.
Basketball, The Weeknd, Lakeith Stafield, and the Safdie brothers?!? No way I wasn’t going to love this movie. The directing and cinematography paired with Adam Sandlers incredible performance blew me away. My favorite movie of 2019. Gimme whatever the Safdie Brothers do next🤤
Now I need a shot of diazepam
Uncut gem is a roller coaster ride of anxiety and adrenaline. The pacing offer multiple windows to catch our breath before it drop us again from a steep hill. I'm never gonna push my luck again after seeing this film.
The movie opens with an establishing shot from the mining field to an opalt, and into the protagonist's colon real quick accompanied by 10 minutes of non-stop energizing score. Just wanted to point that out.
this was the last movie i paid to see in theaters before covid shut everything down. feels on brand for me but i can't quite describe how
Just everything in this movie is perfect. The way it’s shot, the way it’s edited and the way it all plays out in the movie is just perfect.
Uncut Gems is the story of a greedy man who can never just be happy with what he's given. Putting him in stressful situations involving a black opal, a overdue lone, and basketball makeing the story end in a climax with a very satisfying conclusion.
I can’t relate to this because the main character (don’t quite remember his name, the one portrayed by Sandler) is not very smart. This sort of thing really just shouldn’t happen to any sort of guy who has his stuff together
It's as if the Safdie's took Altman's overlapping dialogue schtick and used it to create an anxiety-fueled nightmare, where Howard is constantly teetering on a knife's edge of succeeding or failing. The high-stakes gambling version of a payday loan cycle. The volatility of the emotional state of someone tripping balls, but coupled with massive financial consequences. Even though Howard is an asshole and a loser, you cannot help but hope for his success.
Well directed and with memorable performances. Might actually end up watching this one again!
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