17 Movies That Critics And Fans Just Didn't Agree On

5. The Cobbler

RottenTomatoes Score: 3.0

IMDB Score: 5.8

Say what you want about Adam Sandler, but few actors are so consistently capable of boosting a movie's IMDB score by their mere presence, and regardless of what critics think, the guy puts butts in seats (evidenced further by the success of his current deal with Netflix).

Oddly enough, the movie to offer up the greatest disparity between critical and audience opinion isn't one of his broad studio comedies, but rather his low-key 2014 critical trainwreck The Cobbler.

Though there was a solid measure of hype for Sandler teaming with now-Oscar-winning writer-director Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), The Cobbler was one of TIFF 2014's worst-reviewed films. It fared no better on theatrical release, landing an horrendous 9% critical approval.

General audiences, however, thought it was actually pretty solid, with 28.2% of IMDB voters awarding it a 6/10. Perhaps that speaks to the movie being blandly inoffensive enough to get a pass from the casuals, even if critics - who are duty-bound to sit through every Sandler movie without fail - had become long exhausted by the actor's low-effort shenanigans.