It’s been six years now since Benny and Josh Safdie unleashed Uncut Gems on the world. Their ultra-stressful thriller – following Adam Sandler’s Howard Ratner as he makes possibly disastrous financial decisions around the procurement of a precious diamond – was a hugely acclaimed cinematic adrenaline-shot, following up their previous hit Good Time . In the meantime, the brothers have been working on separate projects. Not only has Benny starred in the likes of Obi-Wan Kenobi and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret , but he’s been hard at work on The Smashing Machine , his biopic of MMA fighter Mark Kerr starring Dwayne Johnson, while Josh has been directing his fictional ping-pong champion movie Marty Supreme , starring Timothée Chalamet.
For audiences, it means a