Tagged: Josh Safdie

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

August 16, 2021

Criterion Prediction #269: Good Time, by Alexander Miller

Title: Good Time Year: 2017 Director(s): Josh and Benny Safdie Cast: Robert Pattinson, Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Benny Safdie, Buddy Duress, Barkhad Abdi, Taliah Webster, Necro, muMs Synopsis: When two brothers, Nick (Safdie) and Connie (Pattinson) Nikas, narrowly escape a botched bank...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

December 12, 2019

Uncut Gems: Pride and Passion, by David Bax

While it might be misleading to describe Benny and Josh Safdie’s unceasingly tense and jittery low-level crime thriller Uncut Gems as a comedy, the directors’ singular sense of humor is on display from the grandiose opening sequence. In an Ethiopian...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

January 2, 2019

Criterion Prediction #172: Daddy Longlegs, by Alexander Miller

Title: Daddy Long Legs aka Go Get Some Rosemary Year: 2009 Director(s): Josh and Benny Safdie Cast: Ronald Bronstein, Fray Ranaldo, Sage Ranaldo, Eleonore Hendricks Synopsis: Lenny, a freewheeling 34-year-old projectionist, spends two weeks with his two young sons, Sage...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

August 10, 2017

Good Time: Don’t Feel Safe in New York City, by Scott Nye

“That was like the Coen brothers on speed!” the buffoonish man behind me cried, and loathe though I was to find accord with him after an hour and a half of repeating the onscreen action to his attending partner, I...

Tagged: Josh Safdie

Criterion Prediction #269: Good Time, by Alexander Miller

Uncut Gems: Pride and Passion, by David Bax

Criterion Prediction #172: Daddy Longlegs, by Alexander Miller

Good Time: Don’t Feel Safe in New York City, by Scott Nye

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