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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 18 Dec 2019

Uncut Gems remains, from start to finish, a tale told about an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 16 Dec 2019

Uncut Gems jitters and skitters and lurches and hurtles with Howard’s desperate energy…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 16 Dec 2019

Howard is the summation of the Safdies’ culture, in which the drive for life collides head-on with the drive for death, and the upshot is cinema…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 14 Dec 2019

The edgy, claustrophobic approach to filmmaking is there, as is the importance of setting…

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By Emily Heller (1) for Polygon (677) on 13 Dec 2019

Even as Howard screws himself over with blustery bravado, it’s hard not to root for him…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 13 Dec 2019

Sandler has perfected the art of talk-smiling through his teeth, barely moving his lips, and it’s perfect for Howard: He’s a guy who’s…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 12 Dec 2019

Can a movie that generates steady-state anxiety also function as entertainment…

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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 12 Dec 2019

Horrifying, transfixing, and ultimately, to use Tony Kushner’s immortal phrasing, intestinal…

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By Jocelyn Noveck (253) for The Associated Press (882) on 12 Dec 2019

It’s obvious that Sandler, the actor, is capable of extraordinary range — not in the traditional, Meryl Streep sense, but a range of incredibly…

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By Oliver Jones (215) for Observer (1,042) on 12 Dec 2019

The Safdies’ film is a cinematically expressive tightrope walk that seems designed to leave your blood pressure permanently spiked…

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By Alan Ng (404) for Film Threat (5,156) on 12 Dec 2019

Whatever bias you may have about Sandler’s comedies fade away here…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 12 Dec 2019

Lots of stuff happens, lots and lots, and some of it can be hard to track. But the bedlam is intentional and amusing…

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By Brian Lowry (913) for CNN (497) on 12 Dec 2019

The story's unrelenting nature works against it, blunting the lure of seeing Adam Sandler in one of his occasional dramatic performances --…

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By Brett Arnold (5) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 12 Dec 2019

While Howard Ratner is undeniably Adam Sandler, one of the most famous actors in the world, you’ve definitely never seen him like this before…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 10 Dec 2019

Oscar voters pretend not to see that Sandler’s a clown who can, almost by an act of will, stand toe-to-toe with the best we’ve got…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 10 Dec 2019

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…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 09 Dec 2019

Delusion feeds addiction, and addiction needs a constant supply of delusion…

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By Dom Sinacola (87) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 05 Dec 2019

A marvel of so many confounding, disparate elements that somehow conspire to bring us from one side of the earth to the other…

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By Matthew Dougherty (34) for IGN (1,013) on 04 Dec 2019

The Safdie brothers continue their winning streak of making harshly real films about everyday New Yorkers with fatal flaws…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 19 Oct 2019

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…

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