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The Cobbler

2014

Tom McCarthy

Adam Sandler, Method Man, Ellen Barkin, Melonie Diaz ...

4.8

3,964

Comedy. Fantasy A lonely NYC shoe repairman (Adam Sandler) discovers a magical heirloom that allows him to "walk in another man’s shoes," in this charming fantasy co-starring Dustin Hoffman, Steve Buscemi and Ellen Barkin.

	Author	Review
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"A slow-motion zeppelin crash that starts as a dull-edged fable, and then spirals further and further out of control without ever growing more exciting or interesting."	NEG
United States	Rex Reed The New York Observer	"It revives the pleasant art of storytelling most of today's young filmmakers have all but abandoned, and cures (temporarily, anyway) my allergy to Adam Sandler"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"This toxic Adam Sandler movie about magical shoes is beyond repair (...) Awful (...) Rating: ★ (out of four)"	NEG
United States	John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"An enjoyable but disappointingly ordinary Sandler vehicle"	NEU
United States	Kevin Jagernauth IndieWire	"While the idea is original, it's also ridiculous, and the story is not close to clever enough to put it into any kind of context that is compelling, interesting or believable"	NEG
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"A painfully earnest and totally unfunny magic-realist fable (...) 'The Cobbler' concludes with 15 minutes of WTF moments (...) Rating: ½★ (out of four)"	NEG

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