Adam Sandler has made a boatload of comedies that don’t really challenge him as an actor, but after seeing his remarkably audacious and riveting turn as a New York diamond district merchant a…
Adam Sandler has made a boatload of comedies that don’t really challenge him as an actor, but after seeing his remarkably audacious and riveting turn as a New York diamond district merchant and compulsive sports bettor, you will know he is an extraordinary performer in ways you can’t imagine.
The same came be said for the Safdie brothers’ movie, which feels akin to their equally abrasive and insanely pacedGood Time and ratchet it up a bit, throw in a sound mix with overlapping dialogue right out of Altman, set your star loose, and what you have is the brew of this highly original and compelling piece of cinema. It is probably not for everyone, but tune into its delirious rhythms and you will not be able to resist. It also happens to be a quintessential and gorgeous paean to the city itself.
What can you say about a movie that opens like some weird epic set in Ethiopia among diamond cutters in that country? Soon we are following the ultimate opal diamond on its surreal, Felliniesque journey with dazzling visuals as it twists and turns its way across the planet — finally landing inside, wait for it, Howard Ratner’s bowels as he is in the midst of a colonoscopy.
Josh and Benny Safdie and co-writer/editor Ronald Bronstein have cooked up a corker of a film, and an all-timer of a role for Sandler, who has been great in the past in stuff like
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