Uncut Gems (dir. Josh & Benny Safdie).

[Adam] Sandler and the Safdie brothers make for such a compelling collaboration. Uncut Gems unfolds like a cohesive crime drama embracing its abrasive humanity to move its sense of doom forward. The film is so purposely frenetic and anxiety-inducing yet it’s mpossible to look away from the longshot desperation of Howard’s situations of his own doing.

• Screening at Vancity Theatre starting January 17 and streaming on Netflix in Canada on January 31.

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