The Cobbler Movie Reviews
Avg. Critics Rating
Verdict: Timepass based on 3 reviews
Avg. User Rating
2.0
Verdict: Timepass based on 1 reviews & ratings
3.4
Steve Persall | Tampa Bay Times
Flawed as it is, The Cobbler retains interest throughout, chiefly because Sandler isn't bad in a rare semi-dramatic performance.Read full review3.2
Rex Reed | New York Observer
Written and directed with precision and sensitivity by Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent), 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.Read full review2.5
Kerry Lengel | Arizona Republic
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.Read full review2.5
All this publication's reviews | Philadelphia Inquirer
A film that continues to grow more perplexing as it walks, not runs, toward an unsatisfying end.Read full review2.5
All this publication's reviews | Entertainment Weekly
What starts off as a potentially charming fantasy never finds its footing.Read full review1.3
Peter Travers | Rolling Stone
Bad things can happen to talented people. Take Tom McCarthy, who wrote and directed "The Station Agent," "The Visitor" and "Win Win." All gems. His fourth film, The Cobbler, is a failure on every level.Read full review1.3
A.A. Dowd | The A.V. Club
Maudlin when it’s not being offensive, The Cobbler belongs to that special class of comedy that seems to get worse with every new (mis)step it takes.Read full review1.2
Alonso Duralde | TheWrap
When it seems like the movie can’t get worse, it does, with a finale that’s just cringe-inducing and far too neat and tidy. It’s the kind of climax that undoes all of McCarthy and Sandler’s efforts to make us invest in Max and his story.Read full review1.0
Bilge Ebiri | New York Magazine (Vulture)
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.Read full reviewNR
Nathan Rabin | The Dissolve
The Cobbler is such a weirdly somber comedy that it would almost be in poor taste to laugh during it, though there’s not much danger of that happening.Read full review