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Adam Sandler

April 2024

  • Stuart Heritage

    Nepo-disasters: why Ewan and Clara McGregor are only the latest onscreen parent-child embarrassment

    Stuart Heritage
    For every Wall Street or Wild at Heart there are countless cringeworthy examples of Hollywood power players elbowing their own kids into the picture. Adam Sandler alone has made two dozen with his

March 2024

  • 73m reasons to smile … Adam Sandler

    Adam Sandler named Hollywood’s top earner ahead of Margot Robbie

  • Adam Sandler as Jakub in Spaceman.

    Spaceman review – Adam Sandler is adrift in outer space with a comfort spider

February 2024

  • Spaceman.

    Spaceman review – Adam Sandler consoled by unscary giant spider in deep space

    Adaptation of Czech absurdist novel finds Sandler on a trippy cosmic mission while his marriage breaks down on Earth

January 2024

  • Issues … Brad Pitt in Ad Astra.

    Tin can alley: the return of the Sad Man in Space

    With Spaceman, Adam Sandler joins a cohort of weepy astronauts plundering the woes of the male psyche far from Earth. What are all these sad blokes trying to tell us?

November 2023

  • A still from Leo

    Leo review – Adam Sandler is a wise lizard in charming Netflix comedy

    An animated semi-musical sees the comedy star take on the role of agony uncle for struggling kids in a sweet if a little disjointed tale

September 2023

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Jamie Oliver’s son, Adam Sandler’s daughters: ‘nepo babies’ are taking over showbiz. What about the rest of us?

    Arwa Mahdawi
    Oliver’s 12-year-old is getting a TV show; Sandler’s teenagers star in his new movie. That doesn’t leave much for the ‘normies’, writes Arwa Mahdawi

August 2023

  • Sunny Sandler in You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah

    You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah review – Sandler family delivers sweet YA

    Adam Sandler and daughters score a surprising win for Netflix: a sweet-natured adaptation of Fiona Rosenbloom’s teen novel

May 2023

  • Jeremy Strong in Succession

    It’s a wrap! Why Jeremy Strong shaved his head – and Werner Herzog jumped into a cactus patch

    Actors and directors all have their own ways of finding closure once a production ends. Some are much more brutal than others

April 2023

  • Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler in Murder Mystery 2.

    Murder Mystery 2 review – Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler return in crass comedy caper

    Not even a missing cheese knife can sharpen the plot of this sloppy sequel about a husband-and-wife detective duo

March 2023

  • Murder Mystery 2. (L-R) Jennifer Aniston as Audrey Spitz and Adam Sandler as Nick Spitz in Murder Mystery 2. Cr. Scott Yamano/Netflix © 2023.

    Murder Mystery 2 review – Netflix sequel needs more murder and mystery

    Adam Sandler and Jennifer Aniston lift a lazy follow-up to their action-heavy Netflix comedy with genuine movie star charm

February 2023

  • Newly married couple dancing on their wedding party with heavy smoke and multicolored lights on the background

    It’s the bridesmaids you’ve got to watch out for: notes from a professional wedding singer

    Lucy Ridge
    I like to be booked with my emotional support keyboard player – but it’s not that unusual to meet members of the band for the first time when you arrive at the venue

June 2022

  • Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler bring their tried and tested chemistry to 50 First Dates

    Stream team
    50 First Dates: this sweet-hearted gem is among Adam Sandler’s finest work

    The 2004 goofball romcom starring the endlessly bankable pairing of Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore has its problems but is still full of charm and chemistry
  • Juancho Hernangomez and Adam Sandler in Hustle.

    Hustle review – Adam Sandler scores in rags to riches tale

    A jaded basketball scout rediscovers his love for the game after spotting a prodigy hustling on the street
  • Juancho Hernangómez as Bo Cruz and Adam Sandler as Stanley Sugarman in Hustle

    Hustle review – Adam Sandler brings his A-game to Netflix’s glorified NBA advert

    Sandler sells it hard as a washed-up talent scout but this glossy cameo-fest is too besotted with basketball to offer true drama

February 2022

  • Actors Armie Hammer and Gal Gadot, dressed in a a 1930s white suit and white dress respectively, stand in the foreground in a still from Death on the Nile. The movie's other cast members stand in the background, also dressed primarily in light colors.

    Killer comeback: the big-star Hollywood whodunnit is back again

    The success of Knives Out and Murder on the Orient Express has led to a full-throated return of the keep-em-guessing murder mystery

December 2021

  • Adam Sandler, who has worn slippers and shorts to film premieres, waves to fans in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

    ‘Slob-ebrity’ style: Adam Sandler is 2021’s most Googled fashion icon

    Actor’s relaxed, ‘embarrassing dad’ outfits make him the perfect lockdown style star, say experts

September 2021

  • Sporty, Posh, Scary, Baby and Ginger: the Spice Girls in 1996

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: how Spice Girls and their girl power changed Britain

    A documentary asks how these five personalities combined to such memorable effect. Plus: A House Through Time continues. Here’s what to watch this evening

December 2020

  • Parasite

    Best films of 2020
    The 50 best films of 2020 in the UK: the full list

    It’s number one time, and it’s a picture from the beginning of the year that nothing else has quite eclipsed for wit, thrills and sheer watchability

August 2020

  • Dwayne Johnson

    Dwayne Johnson tops Forbes list of world's highest-paid male actors

    Netflix now accounts for quarter of all actors’ earnings as the Rock takes home biggest pay packet for second year running
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