★★★½

I was really impressed with this movie. After watching Uncut Gems, I wanted to explore the Safdie Brothers’ filmography and I’d heard great things about this movie. Due it’s short runtime, I was able to finish it in one sitting which is not usually easy for most movies. I was engaged throughout the runtime due to the breakneck pace of the film. It’s a very aesthetically pleasing movie with its neon colour scheme giving it a very indie vibe. Robert Pattinson is incredible, you forget that he’s an actor and sympathize with a character who’s doing very bad things. Benny Safdie (one of the director’s of the film) plays his disabled younger brother in a really convincing and nuanced way. It’s a very raw film in the sense that it doesn’t filter or censor the acts of these criminals and shows the lengths they’re willing to go to, in order to get what they want. But it’s also really relatable due to its family aspects. I felt like some of the plot points were really undercooked and that there wasn’t too much of an emotional impact at the end. It was something that was a good time, but I don’t see this movie staying with me for a long time like Uncut Gems will. I feel like this was an important step for the filmmakers to take before executing Uncut and that this was also an important milestone in Pattinson’s journey from Twilight to Batman. This is a really entertaining yet shallow movie.