Tyler Spindel
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Lauren Lapkus may deserve her own version of “The Mask,” but in “The Wrong Missy,” which was made by Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions, she gets her own version of “That’s My Boy.” Which isn’t a terrible thing.
Unlike the main character in most of Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison titles ( “Blended,” “Just Go With It,” “Jack and Jill” ), Tim (Spade), a banking-industry sales vice president whose personal life involves asking the GrubHub delivery person to hang out and getting turned down, is not a fountain of insults for every person he meets.
Adam Sandler is a brilliantly talented man, and “Uncut Gems” is not the only film to offer proof of this.
Last year, the Sandman redeemed himself for half a lifetime of horrible moviemaking decisions with his starring role in the filthy but thrilling Uncut Gems, a masterpiece of scum cinema by directors Josh and Benny Safdie.
The Safdie brothers’ Uncut Gems recently gave him a phenomenal showcase, but the truth is that there’s been an overall uptick in the quality of Sandler’s Netflix vehicles in the past few years, including The Week Of and, to a lesser extent, Murder Mystery — not to mention his terrific performance in Noah Baumbach’s The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) .
While other modern comedies like The Wrong Missy and Next Goal Wins sleepwalk through their respective runtimes, The Naked Gun is excitingly alive.