Uncut Gems

Adam Sandler gives us the performance of his life as a manic, risk-seeking jeweler in the indie auteurs Josh and Benny Safdie’s (Lenny Cooke, Heaven Knows What) thousand-carat, adrenaline-pumped New York symphony.

A heavily indebted, hard-gambling jeweler smuggles in a frozen fish with opal valued in the millions hidden in its stomach, but his salvation from loan sharks only turns into a twisted nightmare when a superstitious basketball star steps into the jewelry shop. Suddenly Adam Sandler’s bling-king finds himself naked in the trunk of his daughter’s school playground, in the middle of cocaine-tinged chaos of broken promises, unpaid debts, unfaithful mistresses, acute death threats and diamond Furbies. Uncut Gems is a greatest hits of slovenly negligent fathers, dark humor and basketball geekery for Safdie connoisseurs, a techno-pumping panic attack and a brilliant cinematic masterpiece that will turn you into a nervous wreck. And you will love every second of it.

• Olle Agebro