Sheri Linden

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Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times
For 1,018 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 59% higher than the average critic
  • 7% same as the average critic
  • 34% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Sheri Linden's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 66
Highest review score: 100 No Home Movie
Lowest review score: 0 Awakened
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 569 out of 1018
  2. Mixed: 399 out of 1018
  3. Negative: 50 out of 1018
1018 movie reviews
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    • 49 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Blush
    The filmmaker's grip on the storytelling could be tighter, especially in the second half, which at times seems to lose focus, much like the floundering protagonist. But when it clicks, the film is a provocative combo of emotional fumbling, droll asides and shrewd insights.
    • 37 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Honey
    A decidedly upbeat number, centered on a good-hearted character.
    • 36 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Captive
    Though much of the drama is clunky and flat, the taut, visceral performances by David Oyelowo and Kate Mara never err.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    3 Hearts
    The overwrought plot mechanics are exasperating, but the lead actresses' exquisitely modulated performances get under the skin.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 40 Sheri Linden
    The Benefactor
    What begins as an intriguing psychological thriller devolves into an addiction drama, growing less interesting as it proceeds and giving costars Dakota Fanning and Theo James little to do.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Pig
    Pig isn’t the gripping mystery Sarnoski might have intended, but as a crawl through the underbelly of a hipster city’s glamorous foodie culture, it’s a gutsy narrative recipe, even if the final dish is less than the sum of its ingredients. Through it all, Cage plays the enigmatic central character at the perfect simmering temperature, and without a shred of ham.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Spike Island
    Though the story is drawn in broad strokes and overloaded with melodrama, director Mat Whitecross' exuberant feature understands the communal joy and personal necessity of rock 'n' roll.
    • 26 Metascore
    • 40 Sheri Linden
    The Ottoman Lieutenant
    The by-the-numbers story never achieves its aimed-for grandeur or intensity, and the striking Turkish locations prove far more interesting than the characters.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    The Road to Mother
    It works mainly in fits and starts, though there's no question that the movie's depiction of the effects of Soviet rule on a nomadic population will be eye-opening for many Western viewers, and deeply resonant for Kazakhstanis.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 40 Sheri Linden
    Sleeping with Other People
    Though the leads lend charm and comic timing to the unpersuasive material, it would take a ground-up rewrite to make the fate of their characters matter.
    • 35 Metascore
    • 40 Sheri Linden
    Lullaby
    This feature debut deals mainly in clichés, never transforming the tough question at its center into compelling cinema.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 40 Sheri Linden
    Memory
    Matching the screenplay’s lack of nuance, Campbell (Casino Royale, The Protégé) orchestrates the proceedings with a flat efficacy, stringing together familiar action beats and churning up little that rings true.
    • 29 Metascore
    • 40 Sheri Linden
    Tasting Menu
    Director Roger Gual presents little in the way of tantalizing culinary visuals, and that leaves the paper-thin characters as the main course.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Bethlehem
    The movie has the taut efficiency of a well-constructed crime thriller, while its real-world underpinnings play out with a less convincing sense of urgency.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Good Ol' Freda
    White's film is a love letter not just to Kelly and the Beatles, but also to postwar working-class Liverpool.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    Pump
    The historical overview they provide is insightful and lucid, yet their polished production intermittently lapses into dry chronology while they bury the lead.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Queen & Slim
    A less muddled, less self-conscious Queen & Slim could have been an indelible waking dream. Instead, it's hit-and-miss. But Waithe and Matsoukas are on to something, and it's the undercurrents rather than the filmmakers' more obvious exertions that hit the mark.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Queen of Katwe
    Even with director Mira Nair’s typically vivid sense of place and the charismatic central performances by David Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong’o and a striking newcomer, the film hits every note of plucky positivity so squarely on the head that it leaves little room for audience involvement.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    The Cave of the Yellow Dog
    The film offers fascinating glimpses of a hardworking but unhurried way of life, though it doesn't have the powerful dramatic hook of "The Story of the Weeping Camel."
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Sunset Song
    Sunset Song, Davies’ adaptation of a 1932 novel about a Scottish farming family, falls short of the intended cumulative effect, its emotional power undercut by its studied, episodic unfolding.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Flyboys
    A decidedly old-fashioned war film that reaches for epic sweep but is often bogged down in cliched drama and two-dimensional characters.
    • 27 Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    Thérèse: The Story of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
    Does offer a few deeply felt moments.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Midsummer in Newtown
    The talking-head commentary, however firsthand, personal and eloquent, can be repetitious, while the filmmaker leaves unnecessary basic information gaps in the story he’s telling. But Midsummer in Newtown is nonetheless an affecting chronicle.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    I Smile Back
    Without pandering to audience sympathy, Silverman's dark shadings lend something unexpected and real to the role.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    My Little Pony: Equestria Girls - Rainbow Rocks
    Though it’s strictly for the faithful, the tween-friendly mix of cute and earnest has a forthright sharpness and is never cloying.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D
    A choppily told tribute to the Apollo astronauts that makes striking use of never-before-seen archival images.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    A Man Called Ove
    Starting out with a bracing, off-kilter wryness, Ove moves steadily, and disappointingly, toward the crowd-pleasing center.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Faults
    The wan drama is enlivened by bursts of black comedy, some bits more effective than others, and though it ultimately disappoints, there's promise in the understated creepiness of Riley Stearns' debut feature.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    The Peanut Butter Falcon
    [Gottsagen's] sensibility infuses the modern-day fable with an engaging forthrightness. But the unequivocal material often sticks close to the surface, and the film built around him, for all its physical sweep, can feel constricted by obviousness.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Suzi Q
    As a glimpse at the nitty-gritty of building a music career in the '60s and '70s, the film is instructive, though the record-by-record trajectory could have been tighter. Tracing the ups and downs and stops and starts, Firmager sometimes lands in the weeds and loses the beat. The film is strongest in its portrait of the formative years of Quatro's career and their emotional residue, which turns out to be the core of this chronicle.
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