Adam Sandler's new Netflix movie is getting some of the best reviews of his career

, which currently has a 95% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, is based on the 2005 YA novel of the same name by. It’s a coming-of-age story in which Sandler is actually funny, while the movie is refreshingly free of Sandler’s slacker energy that tends to keep his haters away from his projects — and having his real-life daughters on hand also helps, providing an earnestness too often lacking in similarly low-stakes teen movies.

Sadie Sandler as Ronnie Friedman and Zaara Kuttemperoor as Zaara in “You Are So Not Invited To My Bat Mitzvah.” Image source: NetflixSpeaking of family affairs like the presence of four Sandlers, the dreamyscore was also composed by Este Haim and her collaborator Amanda Yamate. They last worked together on another Netflix teen film,

. Moreover, according to Cohen, while the movie draws heavily on growing up within the context of a Jewish experience, there’s a universality to it that also saw the director take references for everything from

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