If so, it's been years.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/comic-adam-sandler-turns-tables-critics-cannes-triumph-133908020.html
Film industry website The Wrap ran the headline "Wow, Adam Sandler Might Actually Belong in Cannes" while Indiewire said "it remains hugely frustrating how great Adam Sandler can be when he's not making Adam Sandler movies".
The Guardian hailed Sandler as "a formidable screen actor", as the Daily Telegraph's critic Robbie Collin tweeted: "Kind of love that Adam Sandler is so rarely as great as he is in 'The Meyerowitz Stories', because when he is it feels so revelatory."