Ugh.

| Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 9, 2017

The Cobbler is the rare movie so terrible that it's hard to figure out why it even exists, why somebody didn't run in front of the speeding train of its production yelling, "Stop!"

| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 17, 2015

Much play is made on "sole" and "soul", and Sandler looks depressed throughout. Fine - let it be him for a change.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 2, 2015

Sandler had an opportunity to explore ethnicity, family and morality. He botches the whole thing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 31, 2015

I just can't take this film seriously.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 30, 2015

What makes The Cobbler particularly wounding is that for once, the premise needn't have necessarily resulted in such a washout.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 30, 2015

Collapses amid its attempts to reshape a notionally sincere script to fit an A-list heel.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jul 30, 2015

A top-of-the-range supporting cast makes this grindingly dull experience almost bearable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 27, 2015

The conceit is both ridiculous and clever, but the director, Tom McCarthy, pushes it to facile conclusions without tapping its deeper potential ...

| Mar 15, 2015

Throughout The Cobbler, Sandler himself seems more invested than he's been for a long time. But the rest of this ghastly movie lets him down.

| Mar 13, 2015

"The Cobbler" is almost fascinatingly awful enough to recommend. If one subscribes to the theory that you can learn as much from a bad movie as from a good one, this one's a master class in what not to do.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Mar 13, 2015

A failed fairy tale with a saccharine, klezmer-inflected tone undercut by the movie's own plot.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 13, 2015

"The Cobbler" is a wildly ill-conceived curio from director Tom McCarthy, who co-wrote with Paul Sado.

| Mar 12, 2015

What starts off as a potentially charming fantasy never finds its footing.

| Original Score: C | Mar 12, 2015

"The Cobbler" definitely won't please the audience for Sandler's mainstream blockbusters, and it's unlikely to win him new fans among the indie intelligentsia, either.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 12, 2015

Fans of Adam Sandler are a hardy lot, impervious to the derision of friends and family and the slings and arrows his films frequently attract from critics. The Cobbler is likely to test their mettle.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 12, 2015

The sophomoric humor may be absent, but in its place is only a souffl of whimsy, seasoned with soot, that fails to rise.

| Mar 12, 2015

The shoe doesn't fit.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 12, 2015

Sandler is solid, and a supporting cast that includes Steve Buscemi, Melonie Diaz and Method Man are all very watchable. But the movie is never able to find its footing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 12, 2015

The Cobbler has invented a new category of terrible: cruel schmaltz

| Original Score: D | Mar 12, 2015