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 higher 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
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    • 87 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Restless Creature: Wendy Whelan
    The film captures the intense emotion of the October 2014 performance that capped Whelan’s 30-year career. But more crucial is the way it shows her creating new challenges for herself, turning the terrifying prospect of irrelevance into a shot at reinvention.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    My Cousin Rachel
    There's enough dark sizzle between leads Rachel Weisz and Sam Claflin to keep the audience involved through the underpowered middle stretches before the film regains its footing, delivering a disquieting shiver of a conclusion.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    From the Ashes
    There’s nothing particularly cinematic about the well-crafted film, but it’s a compelling piece of advocacy journalism, one that looks beyond the sloganeering on all sides of the debate.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 100 Sheri Linden
    It Comes at Night
    With his fine cast and his gracefully restrained screenplay, Shults makes horror recognizable.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Megan Leavey
    Bringing their real-life story to the screen, director Gabriela Cowperthwaite has made a movie about soldiers that's not, strictly speaking, a war film. She's made a love story, one that's all the more heartstring-tugging for its cogent restraint.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Wonder Woman
    As with all comics-based extravaganzas, brevity is anathema to the Patty Jenkins-directed Wonder Woman, and it doesn’t quite transcend the traits of franchise product as it checks off the list of action-fantasy requisites.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 30 Sheri Linden
    96 Souls
    With its many story strands and flat direction, the movie lacks a pulse, its ambitious hodgepodge of concepts refusing to jell.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 90 Sheri Linden
    Manifesto
    Whatever Rosefeldt intended, Manifesto doesn’t quite set forth a manifesto of its own. But it’s a blast of fresh air. And like many of the gauntlet throwers it cites, it risks looking foolish and, in the process, creates something gorgeously defiant.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Long Strange Trip
    Thoughtful, deeply affectionate and concerned more with essence than chronology, it recounts the band’s 30 years in a way that should enlighten diehards as well as the uninitiated.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Black Butterfly
    None of it is earth-shattering, but Goodman gives it muscle and makes it work. And with their synapse-firing performances, Banderas and Rhys Meyers keep the viewer at arm’s length and guessing — through, and even past, fade-out.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    Wrestling Jerusalem
    A work of deep but unsentimental optimism, Wrestling Jerusalem gives us plenty to wrestle with, but presents it at such a relentless clip, in such self-conscious fashion, that it becomes wearying rather than involving.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Everything, Everything
    Jolts of humor and fantasy bring welcome texture to the romance-novel sleekness, as do the leads, who both have an uncommon, idiosyncratic allure.
    • 53 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Katie Says Goodbye
    Katie Says Goodbye is a plaintive story of hard luck and fringe dwellers, one that might have felt clichéd in lesser hands. But first-time filmmaker Wayne Roberts conjures new, resonant chords in his taut, tender drama.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story
    Their personal story is no less fascinating than their experiences working on hundreds of movies, together and separately.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Burden
    Whether as a constructor of large-scale enchantments or a notorious conceptualist, he emerges in this portrait as sincerely searching.
    • 43 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    The Drowning
    Despite the wildly uneven plotting, Gordon’s atmospheric direction in coastal New London propels the drama, as does her sensitivity to what remains unspoken between people. That everyone in the film is drastically off-balance may just be the point.
    • 42 Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait
    Rather than explore his place in the arts and balance all that adoration with insight, Corsicato opts for hero worship. The result is a visually exciting but emotionally monotonous film.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Ice Mother
    Combining guardedness and openheartedness in unpredictable ways, Kronerova and Novy deliver exceptional performances, turning the crystal-clear metaphor of ice swimming into a full-blooded emotional experience.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Lowriders
    A dynamic glimpse of contemporary Los Angeles funneled into an old-fashioned coming-of-age saga, Lowriders isn’t always persuasive, but it has plenty of heart.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 40 Sheri Linden
    Displacement
    Had Mader focused on fewer plot strands, he might have found a more effective balance. Whatever metaphysical poetry Displacement could have held is lost amid its over-explained and underwhelming search for the “negation point.”
    • 42 Metascore
    • 30 Sheri Linden
    Voice from the Stone
    Howell’s inept pileup of would-be signifiers — a misty quarry, a family crypt, a philosophical beekeeper — gives way to frisson-free horror and unconvincing romance.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Slack Bay
    Though the combination of social critique and unhinged laughs doesn’t always jell, the movie is quite gloriously a thing unto itself, even as it draws upon obvious inspirations.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Score: A Film Music Documentary
    Schrader’s film gets into the nitty-gritty without losing sight of the alchemy.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 100 Sheri Linden
    Let It Fall: L.A. 1982-1992
    The incisive beauty of the documentary, and its power, is that it's not a thesis or an argument but a full-blooded, multifaceted real-life drama.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Unforgettable
    At the helm for the first-time, and working from screenwriter Christina Hodson’s slick balancing act of aspirational romance and dark psychology, longtime producer Di Novi enlivens the generic mix with a tinge of camp and a sure grasp of mean-girl dynamics.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Alive and Kicking
    There may be no fancy filmmaking steps in “Alive and Kicking,” but the jaw-dropping improvisations and physical intimacy of the dancers make it an action film par excellence — joy-fueled and gravity-defying.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 40 Sheri Linden
    The Ticket
    Directed by Ido Fluk from a screenplay he wrote with Sharon Mashihi, the film is sensitively observed, its performances convincingly understated. But it rapidly devolves into a standard, and increasingly unfocused, story of materialism and greed.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    Going in Style
    The real crime in Going in Style is its waste of acting talent.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    bwoy
    Circumstances that might have been static in less skilled hands are given tantalizing life by Young, the actors and the deft camerawork of cinematographer Ryan Balas.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    The Levelling
    Set on a dairy farm in southwestern England, The Levelling is a modestly scaled, superbly crafted drama with a powerful sense of place.
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