Adam Sandler was waiting to be thrown into a midtown fountain on Sixth Avenue for a scene in Josh and Benny Safdie’s “Uncut Gems” when he noticed a familiar face on the sidewalk. But the wild, chaotic, unhinged “Uncut Gems” — still screening in Toronto at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and arriving on Netflix later this month — is just a stone’s throw from Sandler’s beginnings. “Uncut Gems” is an especially intense experience. If you remember the loud, discombobulating drug-dealer scene in Anderson’s “Boogie Nights,” “Uncut Gems” runs at that high-pitched frenzy for pretty much its entire length. “Since we agreed to worked together, which was pretty quick after we met, we have been nonstop ‘Uncut Gems,’” Sandler says.

Source: thestar January 02, 2020 12:00 UTC