A sharp handling of complicated family matters
The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) has shades of Woody Allen, but its cast and brilliant writing make it feel original.
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JUST when Adam Sandler haters think they can avoid the comedian on the big screen, he decides to port his juvenile brand of humour to every body's home. The Netflix films he has made so far haven't done him much favour, to say the very least.
His debut feature for the on-demand video-streaming service provider, The Ridiculous 6 (2015), has a zero per cent rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. (Yes, everybody hated it.)
The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), released last week on Netflix, might earn him back a couple of brownie points and is proof that Sandler is not a bad actor - he just needs to find the right material.
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