Movie Reviews1.6/10
Billy Madison Review: Stupid Isn’t Funny, It’s Just Annoying
A tale of a man who would remain a child, though all the world bids him grow up. A wretched jest, scarcely worth the hour.
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Movie Reviews6/10
The Wedding Singer Review: A Broken Heart, a Wedding Singer, and a Second Chance
A wedding singer abandoned on his own wedding day falls in love with another woman while performing at receptions across Ridgefield.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
Little Nicky Review: Sandler’s Devilish Son Lands Flat on Earth
A devil's youngest son descends to Earth to capture his cruel brethren and restore his father's fading throne in this uneven, ambitious comedy.
Movie Reviews3.3/10
The Waterboy Review: Rage as a Gift, Not a Wound
A review of Adam Sandler's The Waterboy, a film whose hero's rage is treated as a gift rather than a wound.
Movie Reviews3.7/10
‘I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry’: A Premise Too Sharp for Its Own Good
A tale of two men bound by fire, duty, and a scheme to secure a widow's legacy — a comedy that mocks what it pretends to honor.
Movie Reviews7.8/10
Sandler Finds True Love and True Rage in Punch-Drunk Love
A bachelor of plunger sales falls into love and into terror, while his seven sisters mock him still.
Movie Reviews3.3/10
Skeeter’s Bedtime Stories Come True — and So Does the Film’s Weakness
A hotel handyman's bedtime tales turn true, yet his wit cannot save the film from its own thin design.
Movie Reviews3.1/10
Happy Gilmore Review: 400-Yard Swings, No Sense of Humor
A man with a great blow upon the green, whose fury and scorn bring laughter, yet leave little else behind.
Movie Reviews5.2/10
‘Anger Management’: Buddy Moves In, Dave Never Gets Out
A man so nervous he cannot kiss his girlfriend must endure a doctor who moves in and tests his patience, in a comedy that never quite pays off.
Movie Reviews3.1/10
Sandler and Barrymore Reunite at a South African Resort in Blended — and the Romance Never Gels
A father and a mother, each bearing a loss, cross paths at a faraway resort, bound by fate into a union neither seeks.
Movie Reviews5.4/10
Adam Sandler’s Israeli commando comedy still can’t decide if it’s spoofing machismo or selling it
You Don't Mess with the Zohan hit $204M but never sharpens its satire. A review of Sandler's 2008 comedy, its thin premise, and its wasted cast.
Movie Reviews5.4/10
Dracula takes a cruise in Hotel Transylvania 3, eight years on
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation review — Dracula's cruise romance sinks, but the 1897 train opening and a $528M gross keep the franchise afloat.