This was gripping, an Adam Sandler movie that isn’t nails-down-a-blackboard godawful. He has been in some of the most appalling films, yet also the intermittent cracker – Punch Drunk Love (2002), for example. Here he is unrecognisable from his usual goofball act, literally sweating his pores through the travails of a gambling junkie juggling debt, addiction, and avoiding some rather dodgy small-time hoodlums/loan sharks. It’s an accurate portrait of the lives many folk live and quite the captivating one.
It has the Ben SEAL OF APPROVAL.
Further reading/viewing:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-mesmerizing-chaos-of-uncut-gems
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/uncut-gems-movie-review-2019
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 