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You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah is Adam Sandler's best-rated film ever

The film has beaten sports drama Hustle to become his best-reviewed film, according to Rotten Tomatoes

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Adam Sandler's new teen film has become his best-reviewed project ever according to Rotten Tomatoes.

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah was released on Friday on Netflix, starring both of Sandler's daughters and his wife Jackie.

Sandler’s younger daughter Sunny, 13, stars as the lead character Stacy Friedman whilst Sandler’s older daughter Sadie plays Stacy’s older sister Ronnie.

Sandler himself plays Stacy’s dad and Idina Menzel plays Stacy’s mum whilst Samantha Lorraine plays Lydia, the half-Jewish half-Hispanic best friend of Stacy.

After just three days, the film is now Sandler's highest-rated movie on Rotten Tomatoes to date. It boasts a 96 per cent certified Fresh rating, which means that 96 per cent of all reviews were favourable.

The Jewish Hollywood actor previously set records with his 2022 film Hustle which achieved a 93 per cent rating.

Other films which Sandler was rated well for include 2019's Uncut Gems which achieved 91 per cent , Punch-Drunk Love which scored 79 per cent and 2017's The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) which scored 92 per cent. 

Sandler recently signed a $350m (£199m) deal with the streaming service to appear in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, and four other films. 

Director Sammi Cohen praised Sandler and his family for their work on the film. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, he said: "Adam is doing everything right. He's producing, he's acting, he's being a dad. 

“The whole family — him, the girls, Jackie — they're all really talented and they are the most hardworking group of people I think I've ever met. 

“And Sadie and Sunny in particular were really interested in the filmmaking.... The cast of kids as a whole, some of them want to be writers and directors, and that was just a fun thing too, to see and help foster that kind of creative itch as well."

Speaking about the wider family dynamic on the set of the movie, Cohen went on to say: "I think community and family are such pillars of being a Jewish person, and the Sandlers have this way of really making everyone feel like family and feel at home.

“And there's this sense of ease and show up as you are. When you feel like you're around family, you can just be more yourself. 

“And that, I think, elicits funnier jokes and there's less of a filter on everything."

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