As you might expect, “Uncut Gems” is not an easy watch. It’s a film that operates entirely at a level of clammy panic and desperation, forcing its audience to witness a person make all the wrong decisions and being powerless to stop it.
Adam Lubitow
Film critic for CITY Newspaper, writer, iced coffee addict, and dinosaur enthusiast.
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The 15 best films of 2019
It was as good a year for film as it was bad for, well, (gestures broadly to the world) everything else. These are the movies that most spoke to Adam this year, each conveying something unexpected about what it feels like to be alive right now.
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Bombed out
‘Bombshell’ works hard to completely absolve its characters of their own complicity in the creation of the toxic product churned out by Fox.
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New Guillermo del Toro joint ‘Nightmare Alley’ to be filmed in Buffalo
The film will star Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Rooney Mara, and Willem Dafoe. A casting call for extras has been issued in Western/Central New York.
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Hero under fire
“Richard Jewell” tells the story of how the twin forces of media and the government came together to destroy the life of a hapless Atlanta security guard.
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Film review: ‘Waves’
The flawed but deeply-felt domestic drama is essentially two movies in one, split into a harrowing first half and an elegiac second.
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Of film and honey
One might be tempted to dismiss “Honey Boy” as navel-gazing, but there’s a vulnerability to what LaBeouf is doing.
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Film review: ‘Marriage Story’
At the center of the film is the idea that it takes the tearing apart of a loving relationship for its players to become conscious of how that relationship worked (or didn’t) in the first place.
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The game’s afoot
Rian Johnson’s ingeniously witty “Knives Out” is released on Friday.
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Mistletoe and Holly(wood)
Christmas and movie-watching go together like eggnog and bourbon. But just as everyone’s holiday traditions are different, one’s personal tastes in holiday movies also tends to vary wildly.
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FILM | ‘Filmi Worlds’
Since 2014, the George Eastman Museum has been home to the world’s largest collection of contemporary Indian cinema outside of India. With more than 700 films now in the Museum’s archive, why not have a festival to show some of them off? This weekend, the Eastman Museum will partner with the University of Rochester, the […]
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Feeling neighborly
“A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood” is a story about the real work it takes to manage one’s emotions, and be considerate of others.
