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But that, it turns out, is too easy a dismissal. The most telling complaint some have had about “Uncut Gems” — I’ve read it over and over again — is that despite the fact that the film is awesomely well-made, the Sandler character, Howard Ratner, is such a skeevy, selfish two-bit operator that he’s not “sympathetic.
So is Howard Ratner an unsympathetic character? Actually, he’s quite sympathetic. That’s the beauty, and the resonance, of Sandler’s performance. His Howard is a ratty, stunted loser-geek who cheats the people he loves and pursues, with myopic self-confidence, a path riddled with self-destruction. Yet Sandler draws on his own inner quality of menschy gregariousness to show you that Howard, at heart, isn’t a bad man; he’s just a terribly misguided lost soul.
Here’s what I think that C+ from CinemaScore means. By now, nearly two million moviegoers have gone to theaters to see “Uncut Gems.” That qualifies this small but audacious high-wire act of a verité thriller as an outrageous success story.
But I’m sorry, it’s papering over reality with a corrupt studio mentality to say that two million moviegoers have seen “Uncut Gems,” yet it’s a film that “audiences don’t like.” People have seen it not just because Sandler is in it, but because it’s a movie, like “Joker,” that expresses a fractious desperation that’s out there. It’s a new kind of movie, an upper and downer at the same time — a manic roller-coaster of despair.
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