Uncut Gems: The Anxiety Thriller as Endurance Test

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Uncut Gems opens inside a body. Josh and Benny Safdie start on an Ethiopian opal mine — a miner has been hurt, there’s blood, there’s a jagged black stone glittering with hidden colour — and then cut, in one of the boldest match cuts in recent American cinema, from the glinting interior of the gem to the glinting interior of Howard Ratner’s colon during a routine endoscopy. The film is announcing its terms. Everything here is guts. Everything is the wet, involuntary machinery of a man who cannot stop.

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Uncut Gems: The Anxiety Thriller as Endurance Test