ANGER MANAGEMENT (2003)

THE ROLE Dave Buznik, a mild-mannered businessman who, following an unfortunate misunderstanding on a plane, is forced to undergo the unorthodox anger-management program of a highly irritating therapist (Jack Nicholson)

WHAT EW SAID Lisa Schwarzbaum: ''No longer safely reprising the self-limiting role of a doofus who won't grow up, Sandler actually expresses something mature about a man's need to assert himself. Nicholson, meanwhile, [is] clearly having a great, loose time playing off Sandler's unique emotional wiring.''