Title - Uncut Gems
Studio - A24, Netflix
Starring - Adam Sandler, Idina Menzel, Lakeith Stanfield, Judd Hirsch, Kevin Garnett, Julia Fox
Writer - Ronald Brostein, Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Director - Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie
Release - 13 December 2019
This guy should not be someone that you root for. If you had met him in real life, you would have realised that he is so undependable because he is a gambler. And yet, by the end of the movie, that's all I could do, root for him to win.
The Safdie brothers, who had a great speech during the Spirit Awards, did a remarkable job with directing this movie. You could tell they had a sense of style which is always a good thing when you are discovering a director for the first time.
There was a really good cast assembled here, all of whom were accentuated by the style of direction. The humour with the buzzing door, the auction house, escaping debt collectors; all the suspense really came through the screen with the way the Safdie brothers told the story.
In the end, it was still Adam Sandler's mind-blowing performance that carried the movie. None of the Happy Gilmore pouting and screaming, none of the 50 First Dates cool and charming; although there was definitely charm, just of a different kind.
Hope to see more of Sandler doing these sort of serious drama.
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