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Summary Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a charismatic New York City jeweler, is always on the lookout for the next big score. When he 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 relentle...

Directed By: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Written By: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie

Uncut Gems

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 59 Critic Reviews
must-see
93
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 791 User Ratings
7.2
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Summary Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a charismatic New York City jeweler, is always on the lookout for the next big score. When he 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 relentle...

Directed By: Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie

Written By: Ronald Bronstein, Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 59 Critic Reviews
93
97% Positive
57 Reviews
3% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 59 Critic Reviews
93
97% Positive
57 Reviews
3% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews

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Jan 21, 2024
100
Both Sandler and the Safdies are pulling out all the stops, and it works.
By Ed Symkus FULL REVIEW
Jan 2, 2020
100
It’s a remarkable work of feral filmmaking that makes everything else feel domesticated by comparison.
By Vince Mancini FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 791 User Ratings
7.2
73% Positive
575 Ratings
14% Mixed
107 Ratings
14% Negative
109 Ratings

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Generally Favorable Based on 791 User Ratings
7.2
73% Positive
575 Ratings
14% Mixed
107 Ratings
14% Negative
109 Ratings

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Apr 20, 2025
10
Joker56895
Uncut Gems là phim tội phạm tâm lý căng thẳng, theo chân tay buôn kim cương vật lộn giữa nợ nần và hiểm nguy để đổi đời.
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Apr 18, 2022
10
LuissDt
Uncut Gems is a diamond in the rough, because it still has part of sandler's classic stupid humor, the anger, anguish and frustration of the good that it causes, making it a surprise
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Oct 19, 2019
100
It is the most arrhythmia-inducingly tense film I have seen in years: by the end, I felt as if I’d spent the last two hours being dangled by my ankles over a crocodile pit.
By Robbie Collin FULL REVIEW
Dec 10, 2019
91
A vibrantly madcap dark comedy.
By Darren Franich FULL REVIEW
Sep 12, 2019
90
Directed with relentless tension and diamond-hard intelligence by Josh and Benny Safdie (who earlier this month won directing honors from the New York Film Critics Circle), Uncut Gems is a thriller and a character study, a tragedy and a blast.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
Sep 11, 2019
88
In the film, a man's individual tragedy illuminates the emptiness of the systems that define him.
By Jake Cole FULL REVIEW
Dec 10, 2019
60
There’s something to admire in the pedal-to-the-metal commitment of their project, and certainly Uncut Gems is the product of an uncompromising vision. But I found the result to be claustrophobic and, finally, dull, with scene after scene that hammers home the same point we understood from the very beginning: that Howard is a lost soul, fated to run both his business and personal life into the ground.
By Dana Stevens FULL REVIEW
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Mar 30, 2022
10
AssPussi
cting across the board is 10/10. The Directors did a great job showing the human emotion with betting on sports. It's funny, tragic, and exciting. One of my favorite films in 2019.
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Nov 5, 2025
6
BradleyS
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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Nov 29, 2023
6
M7AMD
- its okay movie - solid performance by Adam Sandler - Movie was confusing a bit,and some of the soundtracks can be very irritating to the ears - the ending was surprising and I believe it ended on a good note
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Aug 4, 2025
3
Thanato
Story is frustrating and not very compelling; characters' motivations are illogical. Minor characters are introduced that go nowhere. Soundtrack is godawful. Sound mix is muddy. Dialogue is buried under ambient sound and music (some will say 'to create a choatic mood,' but I say take aspirin before you watch; better yet, turn sound way down and read subtitles). Julia Fox is a fox--easily she is the best part of this movie.
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Jun 15, 2023
3
shag00
This is an unusual movie in that the normal short comings of many poor films are not so evident here.This movie is not boring nor did it send me to sleep, the dialogue was appropriate to the setting and the believability of events was OK. The issue for me was the style, it was so deeply anchored in the non culture of American social ladder climbing as to make you cringe. Probably not a good choice for a non US audience.
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Production Company
  • A24
  • Elara Pictures
  • IAC Films
  • Scott Rudin Productions
  • Sikelia Productions
Release Date Dec 13, 2019
Duration 2 h 15 m
Rating R
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Website https://a24films.com/films/uncut-gems
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Awards

Seattle Film Critics Society
• 2 Wins & 6 Nominations
Film Independent Spirit Awards
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
International Cinephile Society Awards
• 5 Nominations

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