Every Adam Sandler Movie Ranked Worst To Best

Before going on to direct the Best Picture-winning drama Spotlight, Tom McCarthy cobbled together (sorry) this promising but tiresome display of melodramatic magical realism, which casts Sandler as a shoemaker who learns he can become other people if he acquires their footwear.

Sandler, to his credit, certainly tries to inject The Cobbler with some heart, but you can sense him straining under McCarthy's uneven script, which lacks both the pathos and intelligence needed to pull off such an audacious story; one that seems intriguing on paper, but in execution quickly loses its way.

Uneven and rough with forced sentimentality, The Cobbler is a late-career misfire that Sandler, though he means well, fails to save.