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You’ll have a bad time watching Good Time – but you’ll never feel so alive
If cinema is meant to make us feel something, then the Safdie brothers want us to have a stress-induced aneurysm with this 2017 thriller, which got Robert Pattinson his Batman gig
Good Time is streaming on Netflix. For more recommendations of what to stream in Australia, click hereGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email and listen to our podcastWith Robert Pattinson’s Batman currently impressing on the big screen, what better reason to look back at the role which The Batman director Matt Reeves credits as the catalyst for his casting. The Safdie brothers’ 2017 film Good Time is a tense, nervy, caffeine jolt of a crime thriller, which sees Pattinson in top form as a small-time crook, trying to save his brother over the course of 24 agonising hours.
Connie Nikas (Pattinson) and his developmentally disabled brother Nick (co-director, Benny Safdie) rob a bank in New York but bungle the getaway. Nick is arrested while Connie manages to flee the scene. In a darkly amusing piece of irony, Connie attempts to bail his brother using the very same robbery proceeds they just stole. It’s not enough to spring Nick, so Connie scrambles to find $10,000 in a single night, as events spiral rapidly out of his control.
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