‘Spaceman’s Inconceivably Important Themes Edge Out Its Painful Lack of Commitment
Throughout his career, Adam Sandler has built himself a reputation whose singularity makes him arguably tantamount to a mythological figure in the world of cinema; here we have a man who has demonstrated time and time again that he has the acting chops necessary to tango with the best, and yet, when we hear the name “Adam Sandler,” the first thing that tends to spring to our minds is one of his many, goofy man-child turns in the vein of The Waterboy or Billy Madison. To that point, Spaceman, the latest film to put the…