Every Adam Sandler Movie Ranked Worst To Best
2. Uncut Gems (2019)
It was the film that changed everything. We all knew Sandler was a great actor at this point (The Meyerowitz Stories, Punch-Drunk Love, Reign Over Me, Click), but even so Uncut Gems came as a surprise.
As desperate jeweller Howard Ratner, Sandler is a relentless ball of energy, made all the more engaging by the Safdie Brothers' manic direction. To watch Uncut Gems is to hold in a two-hour panic attack, but you can't look away, because Sandler -- slimy, frustrating, toxic, strangely endearing -- sells every breathtaking twist.
Throwing his persona aside and reinventing himself, Uncut Gems would honestly be the Sandman's greatest movie were it not for one other modern classic that changed the way we saw him...