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Suin Zhi Hua-Hilton. USA. Runtime: 2H 15 minute. Mystery. Year: 2019. brief: From acclaimed filmmakers Josh and Benny Safdie comes an electrifying crime thriller about Howard Ratner (Adam Sandler), a charismatic New York City jeweler 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 relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.
Uncut gems trailer song. Uncut gems the weeknd song. Critic¡Çs Pick In the Safdie brothers¡Ç new movie, Sandler plays a jewelry-store owner and compulsive gambler running for his life. Credit... A24 Uncut Gems NYT Critic's Pick Directed by Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller R 2h 15m ¡ÈUncut Gems, ¡É the latest from the brothers Josh and Benny Safdie, blows in like a Category 4 hurricane. It¡Çs a tumult of sensory extremes, of images and sounds, lurching shapes, braying voices, intensities of feeling and calculated craziness. So, naturally it stars ? why not? ? Adam Sandler as a cheat, liar, loving dad, bad husband, jealous lover and compulsive gambler who can¡Çt stop, won¡Çt stop acting the fool. The Safdies, two of the more playfully inventive filmmakers working in American cinema, won¡Çt stop, either, which makes ¡ÈUncut Gems¡É fun if also wearying and at times annoying. It doesn¡Çt seem to add up to much ? a little man lives his life ? but this is just enough. It¡Çs easier to admire than to love, and I hate the ending, but the Safdies clearly like working your nerves. They¡Çre not interested in the dumb, easy stuff movies give you ? the likable, relatable characters, the sermonizing and moralizing; they¡Çre too busy deploying color and noise, pushing the form, testing their (and our) limits. Amid this enjoyable chaos, Sandler plays Howard Ratner, who has a small jewelry store in the Diamond District of Manhattan. He has a few employees, one of whom is his mistress (Julia Fox), and an aggrieved wife (Idina Menzel) who¡Çs fed up with him. He¡Çs a careless family man, but he dotes on his sons and still clocks in for homey obligations. There¡Çs a leisurely Passover Seder in the middle of the movie that¡Çs suffused with love and alive with squalling kids, bustling women and well-padded men chewing cigars. But Howard has his plagues: He¡Çs a gambler and presumably an unlucky one given the heavy debt that he¡Çs carrying. Lots of stuff happens, lots and lots, and some of it can be hard to track. But the bedlam is intentional and amusing. All you need to do is latch onto Howard as he runs from here to there, yelling greetings, taking calls, making deals, always moving amid jump cuts, zooms and lurid close-ups. (The superb cinematography is by Darius Khondji, shooting on 35-millimeter film. ) Howard¡Çs dodging some toughs who work for a mystery man whom he owes big; the men are scary, bruisers with cruelty etched in their faces and no trace of the usual movie manicuring. One (Keith Williams Richards) punches Howard in the kisser, which is almost understandable. Written by the Safdies with their regular collaborator, the filmmaker Ronald Bronstein, ¡ÈUncut Gems¡É opens with a prologue, a familiar enough narrative strategy. It¡Çs unusual, though, for the Safdies, as is the site: a mine in Ethiopia, where throngs of men are scrambling around a gravely wounded worker. The location shooting initially seems pointless (what happens could be conveyed in dialogue), and like the casting of Sandler, it broadcasts that they¡Çre working with a higher budget. Structurally, the opener echoes the clichéd place-setting in Hollywood adventures, the ones with dashing heroes, offensively exoticized extras and maybe a mummy or two. More specifically, the dusty, enigmatic opener in ¡ÈUncut Gems¡É drolly echoes the start of ¡ÈThe Exorcist¡É (1973), where a priest at an archaeological dig in Iraq unearths the demonic relic that sets off the ensuing horror, the possession and spewing vomit. The magical discovery here is made by two Ethiopian miners, who sneak away from the bedlam to dig out a similar-looking lumpy rock. This turns out to be a huge black opal that soon ends up in Howard¡Çs possession, though not for long. Like the ¡ÈExorcist¡É relic, the opal proves an ominous if more contemporary fetish with a near-magical, increasingly dangerous hold on everyone who comes in contact with it. Howard believes that the opal will save him ? he plans to sell it at auction ? but like good fortune, the precious lump keeps slipping from his grasp. For the most part, the Safdies seem to enjoy mucking up Howard¡Çs plans, intensifying his rotten luck, bad choices, collapsing home life and squabbles, pointless or otherwise. They bat him around, dunk him in a fountain, almost break his nose. He¡Çs a Rabelaisian figure, absurd, lewd, excessive, and while the Safdies are obviously fond of him (the scenes with his children are a tip-off), they don¡Çt cut him much slack. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short; the movie mostly is too, though at 135 minutes it¡Çs not short. Sandler makes a persuasively unsteady hub for this pinwheeling anarchy. It¡Çs an intensely physical role ? Howard racks up the miles ? and generally a reactive one. Every so often Sandler gets to expand the character¡Çs emotional register, in lulls and moments of tenderness and real feeling. Then boom! He¡Çs off again, diving into the clamor, trying to hustle the basketball star Kevin Garnett (as himself) or manage an unruly partner in his hustle (an excellent Lakeith Stanfield). Garnett delivers a speech to Howard about race and exploitation, which brings the story back to Ethiopia. Garnett¡Çs sincerity may resonate with you, but with Howard? Not so much. Howard is running too quickly to really listen, and he doesn¡Çt really care. The world is what it is, dog eat dog flimflam man, get rich or die trying. The Safdies don¡Çt judge Howard or, worse yet, ask us to. Instead, they situate him in a specific historical moment (the year is 2012), throwing him into a late-capitalist, wholly transactional, anxiously insecure world. Deeply immersive, that world carries the imprint of its cinematic influences ? bards of excess like Abel Ferrara, James Toback, Tony Scott and Gaspar Noé ? but it is also and finally its own rough and glittering thing of beauty. Uncut Gems Rated R for gun violence, bloodletting and gambling. Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes.

Uncut Gems Theatrical release poster Directed by Josh Safdie Benny Safdie Produced by Scott Rudin Eli Bush Sebastian Bear-McClard Written by Ronald Bronstein Josh Safdie Benny Safdie Starring Adam Sandler Music by Daniel Lopatin Cinematography Darius Khondji Edited by Production company Elara Pictures IAC Films Sikelia Productions Distributed by A24 (United States) [1] Netflix (International) [2] Release date August?30,?2019 ( Telluride) December?13,?2019 (United States) Running time 135 minutes [3] Country United States Language English Budget $19 million [4] Box office $50 million [5] Uncut Gems is a 2019 American crime thriller film [6] directed by Josh and Benny Safdie, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bronstein. The film stars Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner, a Jewish jeweler and gambling addict in New York City's Diamond District, who must retrieve an expensive gem he purchased to pay off his debts. The film also stars Kevin Garnett, Idina Menzel, Lakeith Stanfield, Julia Fox, and Eric Bogosian. Filming took place from September to November 2018. The original score was composed by Daniel Lopatin. Uncut Gems had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019. It entered into a limited release in the United States on December 13, 2019, before a wide release on December 25, by A24. The film received critical acclaim, with its screenplay, direction, editing, Sandler's performance and Darius Khondji 's cinematography receiving much of the praise. It was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2019, with Sandler also winning the Independent Spirit Award for Best Male Lead. It became A24's highest-grossing film domestically with $50 million. Plot [ edit] In 2010, Ethiopian Jewish miners retrieve a rare black opal from the Welo mine in Africa. In 2012, gambling addict Howard Ratner runs a jewelry store in New York's Diamond District. He struggles to pay off gambling debts, including the $100, 000 he owes to his loan shark brother-in-law Arno. His domestic life is split between his estranged wife Dinah, who has agreed to divorce him after Passover, and his mistress Julia, who works at his store. Basketball player Kevin Garnett visits the shop. Howard has ordered the Ethiopian opal and plans to auction it for an estimated price of $1, 000, 000. He shows the opal to Garnett, who becomes obsessed with it, insisting on holding onto it for good luck at his game that night. Howard reluctantly agrees, accepting Garnett's NBA championship ring as collateral. Howard pawns the ring and places a bet on Garnett playing extraordinarily well in that night's game. Howard wins the lucrative bet, but is ambushed at his daughter's school play by Arno and his bodyguards, Phil and Nico. Arno reveals that he placed a stop on Howard's bet, as it was made with money owed to him. Phil and Nico strip Howard naked and lock him in the trunk of his car, forcing him to call Dinah for help. Howard calls his employee Demany, who is at a party hosted by The Weeknd. Demany tells him that Garnett still has the opal. When he finds Julia and The Weeknd together in a nightclub bathroom, Howard demands that she move out of his apartment. After an awkward Passover dinner, Howard asks Dinah to take him back, but she insults him. Garnett returns the opal and offers to purchase it for $175, 000, but Howard refuses, given the substantially larger appraisal. Just before the auction starts, Howard discovers the opal has been appraised for significantly less than his estimate. He convinces his father-in-law, Gooey, to bid on the gem to drive up the price, but the plan backfires when Garnett bows out early and Gooey wins. Arno, Phil, and Nico confront Howard outside the auction house and assault him. At the shop, Julia finds Howard sobbing, and they repair their relationship. Howard is informed that Garnett still wishes to purchase the opal. As soon as Garnett buys it, Howard decides to bet all the money on Garnett's game that night. He has Julia board a helicopter to Mohegan Sun, narrowly escaping Arno, Phil and Nico, who have come to collect. The thugs threaten Howard, but he refuses to call Julia to cancel the bet. The three attempt to pursue her, but Howard locks them in the store mantrap. Howard and the group watch the game on TV, and Howard wins over $1. 2 million. Howard frees the trio from the mantrap. Phil, enraged, shoots him dead. Arno protests and tries to escape, but Phil kills him too. Julia leaves Mohegan Sun with the winnings, while Phil and Nico loot the store. Cast [ edit] Adam Sandler as Howard Ratner, a Jewish-American Diamond District jeweler who is addicted to gambling Lakeith Stanfield as Demany, Howard's assistant, who recruits clients Julia Fox as Julia, Howard's employee and girlfriend Kevin Garnett as himself, a power forward for the Boston Celtics Idina Menzel as Dinah Ratner, Howard's wife Eric Bogosian as Arno, Howard's brother in law and a loan shark Judd Hirsch as Gooey, Howard's father-in-law Keith Williams Richards as Phil, Arno's quick-tempered henchman Jonathan Aranbayev as Eddie Ratner, Howard's older son Noa Fisher as Marcel Ratner, Howard's daughter Abel Tesfaye as himself, a then-rising R&B star better known as The Weeknd Mike Francesa as Gary, Howard's bookie Jacob Igielski as Beni Ratner, Howard's younger son Wayne Diamond as Wayne, a wealthy gambler who takes a liking to Julia Josh Ostrovsky as Noah Benjy Kleiner as Aaron Pom Klementieff as Lexus Tommy Kominik as Nico Louis Arias as Buddy Keren Shemel as Elline Goldfarb Sahar Bibiyan as Ida Lana Levitin as Ruth Additionally, John Amos, Ca$h Out and Trinidad James appear as themselves. Natasha Lyonne and Tilda Swinton have brief voice appearances as a Celtics staff member and an auction house manager, respectively. [7] Production [ edit] Josh and Benny Safdie conceived the film in 2009, and approached Adam Sandler to star; however, he declined the role. [8] In May 2016, it was announced that the Safdies would direct the film, from a screenplay they wrote alongside Ronald Bronstein. [9] The film was executive produced by Emma Tillinger Koskoff and Martin Scorsese, with Elara Pictures and RT Features producing the film. [9] In May 2017, Jonah Hill joined the cast, with Scott Rudin, Eli Bush and Sebastian Bear-McClard joining as producers, and A24 distributing. [1] In April 2018, Sandler replaced Hill. [10] In August 2018, Eric Bogosian and Judd Hirsch joined the cast. [11] [12] In September 2018, Lakeith Stanfield and Idina Menzel joined, with Netflix acquiring international distribution rights. [13] [14] In October 2018, it was revealed that The Weeknd, Trinidad James and Pom Klementieff had joined, [15] [16] followed by Kevin Garnett in November 2018. [17] Kobe Bryant, Amar'e Stoudemire and Joel Embiid were also considered for Garnett's role. [17] Principal photography began on September 25, 2018, in New York City, [18] and concluded on November 15, 2018. [19] The film was shot by Darius Khondji on 35 mm film. [20] Daniel Lopatin composed the original soundtrack. [21] He also recorded several songs with the Weeknd for the film, which went unused. [22] The score was released on December 13, 2019, on CD and vinyl, and digital streaming services. [23] According to Josh and Benny Safdie, the opening and closing sequences were inspired by the gemological photomicrography of Eduard Gübelin and Danny J. Sanchez. [24] [25] Release [ edit] The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival on August 30, 2019. [26] [27] It also screened at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2019. [28] It was released in limited theaters the United States on December 13, 2019, and had a nationwide release on December 25, 2019. [29] It was released worldwide excluding the United States on Netflix on January 31, 2020. [30] Reception [ edit] Box office [ edit] In its limited opening weekend the film made $537, 242 from five theaters for a per-venue average of $107, 448, the highest ever for A24 and the second-best total of 2019. [31] It then made $241, 431 in its second weekend. [32] The film made $5. 9 million on the first day of wide release (including $1. 1 million from previews on Christmas Eve), the highest single-day gross in A24's history. [33] It went on to make a total of $18. 5 million over the five days ($9. 6 million in the weekend), finishing sixth at the box office. [34] In its second weekend of wide release the film made $7. 5 million, finishing eighth. [35] It has currently made $23. 5 million domestically and $29. 7 million internationally Critical response [ edit] Adam Sandler 's performance garnered widespread critical acclaim, with several critics deeming it the best of his career. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 92% based on 314 reviews, with an average rating of 8. 4/10. The site's critical consensus reads: " Uncut Gems reaffirms the Safdies as masters of anxiety-inducing cinema?and proves Adam Sandler remains a formidable dramatic actor when given the right material. " [36] Metacritic assigned the film a weighted average score of 90 out of 100, based on 56 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [37] Audiences polled by CinemaScore during the film's limited release gave it an average grade of "A?" on an A+ to F scale; upon going wide, it earned a "C+" score, as well as an average 2 out of 5 stars on PostTrak. [31] [34] Eric Kohn of IndieWire gave the film a grade of A, calling it "a riveting high-wire act, pairing cosmic visuals with the gritty energy of a dark psychological thriller and sudden bursts of frantic comedy". [38] Jake Cole of Slant Magazine gave the film 3. 5 out of 4 stars, writing, "As in Good Time, Uncut Gems finds the Safdies working in genre rooted in the grimy, character-oriented crime films of the '70s. " [39] Radheyan Simonpillai of Now commented that "there's so much propulsive, forward momentum even whe

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