Film Review – Roommates (2026)

Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison Productions went YA with 2023’s “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah,” trying to reach a younger audience with a tale of adolescent struggles. The picture was PG-13 and a bit gentler than the usual Sandler fare, and it was rewarded with some of the best reviews Happy Madison has ever received. Perhaps a lesson might be learned from taking a chance on such sincerity, but that’s not how “Roommates” goes. Screenwriters Jimmy Fowlie and Ceara O’Sullivan elect to return to coarseness with the endeavor, which examines a war of anxiety between two college students who don’t get along, creating a turbulent school year to endure. “Roommates” upgrades “Bat Mitzvah” co-star Sadie Sandler to the lead role, and the production looks to find an older audience with the endeavor, which has great difficulty balancing a genuine study of resentment and R-rated Happy Madison shenanigans and weirdness. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com