We Ranked Every Single Adam Sandler Movie

Role: Tommy "White Knife" Stockburn

Rotten Tomatoes score: 0%

If you're a fan of westerns but wish they had more casual racism, then here's a movie for you. The rest of us will pass.

Role: Jack Sadelstein / Jill Sadelstein

Rotten Tomatoes score: 3%

Adam Sandler as a man is pretty insufferable. Now, throw on a wig, some makeup, and his incredibly broad concepts of femininity and womanhood, and you get what is possibly a masterclass in misogyny! 

Role: Donald the Capuchin Monkey

Rotten Tomatoes score: 14%

Night at the Museum, but with a zoo and Adam Sandler is a monkey.

Role: Louie

Rotten Tomatoes score: 7%

This deserves to be on here mostly because Adam Sandler is also in the worst Steve Martin movie and the worst Nora Ephron movie.

Role: Schecky Moskowitz

Rotten Tomatoes score: 11%

Adam Sandler's first starring role in a movie! What happens when you get trapped on a cruise ship with Adam Sandler?

Role: Dink the Clown

Rotten Tomatoes score: 38%

This is obviously not "an Adam Sandler film" but rather "a Bobcat Goldthwait film," which is perhaps an equally dubious description. 

Role: Leonard "Lenny" Feder

Rotten Tomatoes score: 7%

Sometimes, Adam Sandler just wants to take a long vacation with a few old comedy friends and get paid millions for it. This was another one of those times.

Role: Townie

Rotten Tomatoes score: 30%

Adam Sandler hanger-on Rob Schneider fronts this pretty dumb movie in which he receives animal organ transplants after a car accident. He brought along his buddy Sandler for the ride, giving him a tiny (but credited!) cameo.

Role: Carmine Weiner

Rotten Tomatoes score: 33%

Even though he just gets a bit part in this SNL movie, you can't deny that "Carmine Weiner" is a very Adam Sandler Character Name.

Role: Jim Friedman

Rotten Tomatoes score: 14%

Here's 50 First Dates in Africa.

Role: Archie Moses

Rotten Tomatoes score: 8%

There's actually a pretty great quote from director Ernest Dickerson about this movie: "There's a movie I did a couple years ago called Bulletproof. I'd like to just erase that whole experience."

Role: Max Simkin

Rotten Tomatoes score: 9%

This is not, in fact, about the popular dessert, but rather about a shoe maker who magically transforms into people when he puts on their footwear. This allows Sandler to get into a number of problematic situations, including becoming one of his neighbours so he can creep on the man's attractive girlfriend.

Role: Leonard "Lenny" Feder

Rotten Tomatoes score: 10%

Sometimes, Adam Sandler just wants to take a long vacation with a few old comedy friends and get paid millions for it. This was one of those times. 

Role: Skeeter Bronson

Rotten Tomatoes score: 25%

Sandler takes a swing at a family comedy, in a Happy Madison/Disney co-production. Despite bad reviews, the film went on to make a fortune and expose children to Russell Brand.

Role: Dr. Daniel Leroy "Danny" Maccabee III

Rotten Tomatoes score: 18%

Another in the long line of rom-coms Sandler made (this time with Jennifer Aniston), but this one has the added bonus of...Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman? (Seriously.)

Role: Donald "Donny" Berger

Rotten Tomatoes score: 20%

Sandler pairs with Andy Samberg for this mutli-generational comic mess—which, we hope, taught Samberg not to follow in the footsteps of his fellow SNL alum.

Role: Nicky

Rotten Tomatoes score: 22%

The first of Sandler's box office failures, this one features him as the son of the Devil, with a speech impediment and Kris Jenner's haircut. 

Role: Mr. Longfellow Deeds

Rotten Tomatoes score: 22%

This is a "remake" of a 1936 Frank Capra film that was twice-nominated for AFI's Top 100 list, in the same way that Chet Haze is a remake of Tom Hanks.