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| Two male characters run through an out-of-focus, flaring urban night image on this rave-filled poster for the Safdie brothers' Good Time |
Conny and his mentally disabled brother rob a bank, but although they get away after, they soon find themselves hunted specifically by the police, and punishment is hard to escape.
Good Time is written by co-writer/co-editor Ronald Bronstein (Frownland (2007)) and co-writer/co-director, New-Yorker master filmmaker Josh Safdie (The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008)), who co-directed with his brother, co-star/co-director/co-editor, New-Yorker master filmmaker Benny Safdie (Daddy Longlegs (2009)).
The Safdies achieve a deeply riveting, trippy, continuously authentically striking, eminently done crime drama opus magnum here with a phenomenal Robert Pattinson (Twilight (2008)) performance. Pattinson is wholly believable as our jumpy, deeply callous protagonist. Benny Safdie is just as impressive as his brother; Jennifer Jason Leigh (A Thousand Acres (1997)) is outstanding in a part as a poor wretch, whom Pattinson sponges on. He and the other criminals shown here are alternately knuckleheads, mean dogs and merciless crooks, - but they're also desperate people on the run, criminal renegades.
The photography (by Sean Price Williams (Jobe'z World (2018)) is unmatched, done at conversely street level and with a heli-cam sort of like on an American docu-crime show, and Good Time is underlain with an inciting electro score by Daniel Lopatin (The Bling Ring (2013)).
Among the year's best, Good Time is a wildly born neo-classic; unpredictable, unromantisizing, raw, shocking, funny, strong and enormously entertaining.
Pattinson talks about the film on Jimmy Kimmel Live here
Cost: 2 - 4.5 mil. $ (different reports)
Box office: 3.2 - 4.1 mil. $ (different reports)
= Uncertain (returned 0.71 - 2.05 times its cost, depending on the correct cost and gross)
[Good Time premiered 25 May (Cannes Film Festival) and runs 101 minutes. Shooting took place in February - March 2016 in New York. The film opened #36 to a 125k $ first weekend in 4 theaters in North America, where it peaked at #24 and in 721 theaters, grossing 2 mil. $. The-Numbers.com claims the film earned 4.1 mil. $; the film's cost is reported with a much bigger span. The film won a minor award in Cannes; it was also nominated for 5 Independent Spirit awards, among other honors. The Safdie brothers returned with 2 music videos prior to their theatrical return with Uncut Gems (2019). Pattinson returned in 2 video shorts prior to his theatrical return in Damsel (2018). Good Time is certified fresh at 92 % with a 7.60/10 theatrical average at Rotten Tomatoes.]
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