Recommendation: If you liked Uncut Gems, watch Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007)

If you enjoyed Uncut Gems this year, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead from 2007 would be a great watch. Similarly, the colder you go in, the better, so if at any point reading through this post you're sold on it, stop reading and go watch it.

The film was Sydney Lumet's (12 Angry Men) last directorial feature before his death. It's Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and is a Must See on Metacritic

Lumet aside, this is a film that is easy to recommend on the cast alone. It's more or less an r/movies dream team:

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ethan Hawke

Marisa Tomei

Michael Shannon

Amy Ryan

Albert Finney

The setup is about two brothers who partner up on a robbery so that they can get themselves out of debt. The story itself shares a lot of similar themes to Uncut Gems, which makes it easy to recommend one if you like the other. Time-worn motifs like sibling rivalry, addiction, financial struggle, and of course family dysfunction.

The telling of the story is also experimental with how the chronology is layered which plays a huge role in how it's able to build and maintain tension.

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Submitted May 25, 2020 at 08:19PM by the-ATM-machine https://ift.tt/2ZzahJX