Two inept criminals are mistakenly delivered a package of cocaine and think they've hit the jackpot, triggering a series of events that changes ten people's lives forever.
Uncut Gems brazenly presents a son of Shylock, yet the film rides only the surface of ethnic existentialism, the multicultural American anguish that was set out with zest and brilliance in Next Day Air (2009), the underrated black urban thriller-comedy about sons of slaves.
Armond White, Jim Geraghty, The Editors, Andrew C. McCarthy•National Review•Jan 10, 2020
But when Wright lets loose with his British-tinged social satire, Baby Driver compares to Jared Hess’s more genial crime comedy, Masterminds, and becomes the funniest and most incisive crime movie since Next Day Air.
Armond White, Jim Geraghty, The Editors, Jeffrey Blehar•National Review•Jun 23, 2017