The film business is now caught in such a swirling hurricane of change that few pretend to know which way is up.
A couple of years ago, Netflix was an interloper; now it’s poised to dominate the Academy Awards.
Movies and television increasingly flow into each other, and the streaming revolution is only just starting to wash away old categories.In the midst of all this brain-boggling evolution, the fact that “Uncut Gems,” a critically acclaimed independent feature by the Safdie brothers, starring Adam Sandler as a sleazy, flyweight hustler-spieler-chiseler-gambler who works in New York’s Diamond District (but spends most of his time hiding out in the chintzy casino of his mind), has succeeded in making $20 million at the box office may not seem like that big a deal.
The presence of Sandler, along with a great deal of critical adoration, has put “Uncut Gems” on the radar,
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