Curator Watchlist
Good Time
A nerve-shredding crime thriller that turns a bad decision into a full-body panic attack. It’s stylish, propulsive, and deeply stressful, with a grimy New York atmosphere and a tragic, morally messy center.
Curator Watchlist
A nerve-shredding crime thriller that turns a bad decision into a full-body panic attack. It’s stylish, propulsive, and deeply stressful, with a grimy New York atmosphere and a tragic, morally messy center.
Where to watch: Buy
Fri · 1h 42m
Director: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
Starring: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Buddy Duress
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie
Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Buddy Duress
A nerve-shredding crime thriller that turns a bad decision into a full-body panic attack. It’s stylish, propulsive, and deeply stressful, with a grimy New York atmosphere and a tragic, morally messy center.
Good Time is a pure adrenaline movie: a desperate sprint through New York’s underbelly where every choice makes things worse. The Safdies keep the camera close, the pace brutal, and the mood permanently on edge, so even small setbacks feel catastrophic. It’s the kind of film that turns bad luck into a suffocating system of consequences.
What makes it more than a panic machine is how it traps you inside Connie’s self-justifying chaos. The movie is thrilling, but it’s also uncomfortable in a way that lingers, because his love, selfishness, and manipulation are all tangled together. Robert Pattinson gives the film its jittery center, and the supporting turns make the whole thing feel lived-in and dangerous.
If you like crime films that are less about cleverness than momentum, damage, and survival, this is an easy recommendation. It’s harsh, stylish, and memorable, with a final stretch that lands like a punch to the chest.
James (Schaffrillas) (5★) · 11935 likes
Mf could have just changed the channel but instead he chose to go down as a pedophile
#1 gizmo fan (5★) · 10528 likes
Imagine your worst panic attack. Times it by 100.
Peter Labuza (4★) · 8586 likes
A green Sprite bottle, given almost a mythical introduction in a frenetic monologue, slips out of the hand of a character and roles into a puddle of water. The camera, finally imparted from its intense close-ups to a God's eye long shot, lingers just for a second as it rolls into a puddle where it could be misconceived as trash. An object of everyday life that has been signified with narrative agency (A MacGuffin up there with the Arc of
amaya (5★) · 6640 likes
when robert pattinson dyes his hair blond and runs around erratically he's a good actor but when i do it i'm "hysterical" and "scaring the children"
Neil Bahadur (4★) · 4697 likes
"I got beat up. I'm the victim here."--"Cross the room if you've ever been blamed for something you didn't do." Many months before the films North American release, I joked that Good Time looked like "a modern-day Phil Karlson picture" so I was doubly pleasantly surprised when I found that this film approximated that feeling. In his annual love-letter to Cannes, Mark Peranson called the film "a kind of Dionysian New York Gesamtkunstwerk....immersion without identification." Where Good Time… more
The closest tonal cousin: relentless stress, bad decisions, and a hero who keeps digging deeper while the city closes in.
Another Safdie brothers descent into chaos, with raw street-level energy and a similarly punishing sense of momentum.
A nightmarish urban odyssey where one mistake snowballs into a surreal, escalating ordeal.
A breathless, time-pressured chase film built on momentum, urgency, and escalating stakes.
A sleek, predatory portrait of ambition and moral rot in a nocturnal cityscape.
Crime pressure-cooker energy, moral compromise, and a city that feels hostile at every turn.
For the propulsive criminal momentum, volatile behavior, and the sense that one bad choice leads to another.
Street-level crime, Catholic guilt, and volatile male loyalty in a restless urban environment.
If the appeal is pure dread and spiraling self-destruction, this is one of the most intense matches.
A gritty New York chase film with documentary-like immediacy and relentless forward drive.
A pressure-cooker portrait of urban breakdown and escalating bad decisions, though from a very different angle.
Crime, family damage, and the long shadow of bad choices across generations.
crime gone wrong, brotherhood, moral decay, urban desperation, panic and pursuit, self-destruction, class and privilege, survival
crime thriller, neo-noir, anxiety, gritty, New York City, indie drama, high tension, moral ambiguity, nighttime, kinetic editing