![]() Uncut Gems may be Sandler’s most serious role yet, but it’s by no means his only role like it. He held his own with Emma Thompson in The Meyerowitz Stories ![]() Sure, Uncut Gems may not have got any Oscars love, but that hasn’t dampened talk that something of a “Re-Sandler-ssance” is underway. NME Film and TV editor Alex Flood called it a “masterstroke”, The Guardian labelled it “exhilarating” and Empire dubbed it “one of the most mesmerising thrillers in a long time”. Did you soothe your hangover with The Waterboy recently? Or catch The Wedding Singer at your parents’ house on a Sunday? Yes, you probably did.īut, with the recent release of Uncut Gems (which NME described as “an anxiety-inducing heart-attack of a movie”), a peculiar thing happened: the critics actually liked it. To put that in context: the streaming giant claims a global user base of 167 million, meaning that the average subscriber has watched almost 12 hours of Sandler. ![]() These are the same movies that have been viewed for a collective total of two billion hours on Netflix alone. Just look at the numbers – he has a whopping 13 films with a rating of 10% or less on reviews aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, two of which (2015’s The Ridiculous ’s Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star) scored 0%. ![]() Stars don’t come more divisive than Adam Sandler, an actor long beloved by mass film-watching audiences but dismissed with an almost instinctive eye-roll by critics. ![]()
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