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6. Adam Sandler - The Meyerowitz Stories
It's easy to forget that Adam Sandler has some great dramatic work under his belt in movies such as Punch-Drunk Love and Reign Over Me, purely because this is the same guy at the centre of goofball garbage like You Don't Mess With The Zohan.
Sandler's Netflix deal did nothing to improve the quality-quantity ratio of his output for a while, giving the world such classics as The Ridiculous Six, The Do-Over and Sandy Wexler, but that all changed when The Meyerowitz Stories hit the streaming platform.
Noah Baumbach's comedy-drama is a smart, sophisticated look at family life with bittersweet overtones. Sandler gets plenty of opportunities to be funny throughout, but without his usual lowest-common-denominator hijinks to fall back on, he's forced to act, and we're reminded that he can.
The Meyerowitz Stories has earned widespread critical acclaim across the board, and Sandler's performance has been singled out for plaudits.