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By A.a. Dowd (854) for AV Club (2,778) on 12 Mar 2015

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…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 11 Mar 2015

A painfully earnest and totally unfunny magic-realist fable set on the Lower East Side that works in no way whatsoever…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for WBAI Radio (118) on 11 Mar 2015

Magical social realism graces this strange politically conscious comedy about bad landlords, housing activism, a Yiddish cell meeting on the…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 11 Mar 2015

Written and directed with precision and sensitivity by Thomas McCarthy (The Station Agent), it revives the pleasant art of storytelling most…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 10 Mar 2015

Whatever McCarthy hoped to do with this thin story and star casting, all he ended up with was another average Sandler movie — not as bad…

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By Amy Nicholson (961) for Village Voice (8,525) on 10 Mar 2015

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

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 09 Mar 2015

Even as he becomes more aware of a world outside his tiny shop and Sheepshead Bay, Max remains distant and sometimes unpleasant, Sandler barely…

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By Kam Williams (1,272) for Baret News (418) on 09 Mar 2015

Sorry, Adam Sandler simply isn't very convincing playing a character with an I.Q. above room temperature…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 07 Mar 2015

Thomas McCarthy evinces no interest in the people who come into Max's store and wind up as fodder for his increasingly violent and self-absorbed…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 04 Oct 2014

Thomas McCarthy's fourth (and worst) film…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Sep 2014

In a movie built on the idea of walking in someone else's shoes, shouldn't learning to see others as more than stereotypes be fairly central…

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By Andrew Barker (315) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Sep 2014

The result is a slow-motion zeppelin crash that starts as a dull-edged fable, and then spirals further and further out of control without ever…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Grantland (318) on 10 Sep 2014

A movie like this, in which not a single scene comes together, in which almost nothing makes you laugh or cry or think, reminds you that it's…

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By Allan Hunter (1,486) for Screen International (2,241) on 06 Sep 2014

Audiences tickled and delighted by the initial premise are only likely to feel disappointed by the way it pans out…

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By Kevin Jagernauth (311) for The Playlist (3,871) on 06 Sep 2014

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,…

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By William Bibbiani (788) for CraveOnline (813) on 06 Sep 2014

It's an amusing concept for a movie but there's nothing for it to stand on. In other words, The Cobbler leaves you wondering, 'Where's the sole…

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