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Actor · Voice actor · 1983

Jonah Hill

5
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65 min
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Uncut Gems

Benny Safdie, Josh Safdie · 2019

A 2019 crime thriller set in New York’s Diamond District, Uncut Gems follows Howard Ratner, a jeweller and compulsive gambler, over a few chaotic days in 2012. When a rare Ethiopian opal arrives at his store, he leverages it across multiple high-stakes bets while evading loan sharks and managing fractured personal relationships. Directed by Benny and Josh Safdie, the film uses aggressive editing, claustrophobic cinematography, and a pulsing electronic score to simulate the physiology of addiction. Adam Sandler delivers a career-defining performance as a man whose intelligence and energy are indistinguishable from his self-destruction.

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Hail, Caesar!

Ethan Coen, Joel Coen · 2016

Hail, Caesar! (2016) is a Coen brothers comedy set in 1951 Hollywood, following studio fixer Eddie Mannix (Josh Brolin) as he manages crises across five concurrent film productions. Shot on film by Roger Deakins and costumed with meticulous period detail, it treats the studio system as a functioning bureaucracy — not a golden age to mourn, but a machine to map. Its strength lies in structural fidelity, not character depth.

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How to Train Your Dragon

Dean DeBlois, Chris Sanders · 2010

An undersized Viking teenager befriends the rare dragon he was supposed to kill, and in doing so undoes his village's entire way of understanding its enemy. Dean DeBlois and Chris Sanders's 2010 film pairs a straightforward friendship story with unusually grounded visual craft.

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The Lego Movie

Christopher Miller, Phil Lord · 2014

An ordinary Lego minifigure is mistaken for the chosen one destined to stop a tyrant from gluing the universe into permanent order. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's 2014 film uses digital animation built to mimic stop motion and turns a marketing premise into a genuine argument about creativity.

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The Wolf of Wall Street

Martin Scorsese · 2013

The Wolf of Wall Street follows Jordan Belfort's rise from a junior broker to the head of Stratton Oakmont, a firm built on pump-and-dump stock schemes, told almost entirely through his own boastful narration. Martin Scorsese directs Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill and Margot Robbie in a three-hour account, adapted by Terence Winter from Belfort's memoir, that stages fraud as slapstick and addiction as spectacle without ever pulling back to show what any of it cost the people on the other end of the trades.