It’s good to see a focus on Reggie’s wife Frances too (Emily Browning), exploring how the gangster’s criminal lifestyle affected his family life.

He is, as you’d expect, hypnotically powerful in both roles whilst the film’s 1960s setting is flawless. Tom Hardy stars alongside… er… Tom Hardy in this slick biopic of notorious London gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Gritty, gripping and effortlessly likeable, this is a Sandler slam dunk. Described as ‘Rocky meets Jerry Maguire’, The Sandman plays a scout for a Philadelphia basketball team who believes he might finally have found the prodigy he’s always dreamed of. WATCH: Jennifer Lopez in tears in trailer for intimate Netflix documentary Halftime Hustle (2022)Įvery now and then Adam Sandler takes a break from dumb, throwaway comedies and makes a film that reminds us of what he’s really capable of.