hustle

Adam Sandler has achieved a career record with his brand new Netflix movie.The actor, who has a $350m (£199m) deal with the streaming service, appears in Hustle, a sports drama in which he plays a basketball scout.Sandler’s previous films for Netflix, including The Ridiculous 6, Sandy Wexler and Murder Mystery, were all torn apart by critics.Hustle, however, has seen Sandler receive some of the best reviews of his career to date.On Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregate site, the film has a critics score of 89 per cent,…

Dinosaurs are not the only thing stomping into theaters and streaming platforms this week. There’s the standout Adam Sandler basketball crowd-pleaser “Hustle,” the terrific and eye-opening Bay-Area-set “I’m Charlie Walker,” the campy “First Kill” series on Netflix and Peacock’s invigorating redo of “Queer as Folk” amongst others. Here’s what to tune in and tune out this week. “Hustle”: There are some good, even great, Adam Sandler movies and performances. And then there are those others. This underdog sports film…

Not so much a sports movie, but rather a film that deals with the business of sport, Hustle has something in common with Oliver Stone’s thunderous American football drama, Any Given Sunday. The sport in this case is basketball – Adam Sandler plays Stanley, a jaded scout who hauls himself around the world in search of fresh talent – but the film is charged with a similar kinetic crackle to that of Stone’s picture.Stanley’s enthusiasm for the game is dulled by the corporate muscle flexing of his boss (Ben Foster), and his…

Adam Sandler’s partnership with Netflix has proven to be hugely beneficial for both parties, with the actor and producer arguably establishing himself as the platform’s biggest draw since he took his Happy Madison outfit exclusively to streaming. The only downside is that none of the movies to emerge as a result have been particularly good, at least until Hustle premieres on June 8. Having relied on largely the same formula since the mid-1990s, most viewers assume they know what to expect from a Sandler star vehicle. The…

Here is an underdog sports movie with the longest training montage I think I have ever seen – it pretty much had an interval. Hustle is co-produced by its star Adam Sandler and real-life basketball legend LeBron James, whose presence has essentially licensed a huge roster of real-life cameos from basketball stars, players and coaches, who are namechecked in the closing credits. The whole thing looks a bit like a corporate promo for the NBA, and certainly does not admit of anything unwholesome in the world of pro…

Peaky Blinders season 6 is the biggest title on Netflix in June 2022, with the final season of the hit British series arriving in full on June 10 on Netflix, two months after it wrapped up on BBC One in the UK. Less than a couple of weeks later on June 22, the third season of The Umbrella Academy takes us into an alternate timeline — first teased at the end of season 2 — where the titular dysfunctional family of superheroes does not exist. Instead, there is an equivalent in the Sparrow Academy. And oh, Elliot Page's…