Uncut Gems

Both Sandler and the Safdies are pulling out all the stops, and it works.

It’s a remarkable work of feral filmmaking that makes everything else feel domesticated by comparison.

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.

A vibrantly madcap dark comedy.

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.

In the film, a man's individual tragedy illuminates the emptiness of the systems that define him.

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.

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.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

- 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

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.

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.