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
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    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Messenger
    The doc’s stunning slo-mo footage of midair locomotion emphasizes these messengers’ grace and mystery.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Don't Come Back from the Moon
    Though the story’s early stretches feel slender and repetitive, Cheung gathers the undertow of atmosphere and emotion for a beautifully realized final half-hour, matching the striking visuals with involving, unpredictable interactions.
    • 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Warm Bodies
    The low gore quotient and emphasis on young love might disappoint genre purists, but for those open to the idea of a gently goofy mash-up, the film is strong on atmosphere and offers likably low-key, if somewhat bland, charms.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Thing About My Folks
    Avoids easy shtick and saccharine conclusions, opting instead for character dynamics that the two leads deliver with consummate skill.
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    • 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.
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    • 70 Sheri Linden
    This Isn't Funny
    This Isn’t Funny is insightful and quick-witted, a romance that take chances while its lovers learn to do the same.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Greatest Game Ever Played
    Actor-turned-helmer Bill Paxton has fashioned solid family entertainment in this well-cast feature.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Teacher
    Navigating a complex narrative line, Nabulsi doesn’t always achieve the nuance or the propulsive tension the material requires, but she has a sure grasp of emotional give-and-take and day-to-day realities.
    • 63 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Hannah
    Rampling, a Modigliani of long-limbed litheness with a face built for sorrow, inhabits the role and the visual compositions so deeply that the character resonates long after the film has ended.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    No Future
    The drama around them too often lands rather neatly on the surface, saying exactly what it means, but through the unpredictability of its two leads, Keener especially, and in the knotty connection between their characters, the movie gets under the skin and goes beyond the bromide-laden playbook.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Polina
    Shevtsova, until recently a dancer with the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, doesn’t quite pierce the narrative’s two-dimensionality. Through Preljocaj’s ecstatic choreography, though, she goes deep, and Polina’s story finds its language and its pulse.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    She Paradise
    For the movie’s young women — brought to gutsy life by a terrific quartet of dancer-actors — soca is a language of sisterhood yet one that’s hardly free from the controlling power of men with money.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    They Shot the Piano Player
    Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal tackle a tricky balancing act in their new feature, celebrating the intoxicating lilt of the bossa nova and also investigating the devastating brutality of state terrorism. It’s a testament to their talent as filmmakers that, for the most part, they manage to pull it off.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Interior. Leather Bar.
    Unfocused lapses aside, though, the film is intriguing and discomforting in equal measure, using its brief running time to frame thoughtful, boundary-pushing questions.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Wah Do Dem
    As a depiction of youthful resilience, the film works, but Max's trials and tribulations might have had more dramatic impact with a trained actor in the role.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Great Water
    Adapting the novel by Zhivko Chingo, director Trajkov and his co-scripter, Vladimir Blazevski, have created a searing memory piece. Suki Medencevic's widescreen cinematography illuminates a shadow realm halfway between heaven and hell.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    New York Doll
    A tender take on life after stardom.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Almost Holy
    Hoover doesn’t get into the nitty-gritty of the kids’ detox and rehabilitation, but Mokhnenko’s compassion is as evident as his self-regard, and inextricable from his sense of a moral imperative.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Saving Shiloh
    Solid family fare. Like its source material, the Missouri-shot Saving Shiloh is down-home country without condescending to hicks from the sticks.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Miss Sharon Jones!
    There’s no overarching life-story chronology; biographical details emerge in bits and pieces. The director doesn’t wring maudlin tears from her subject’s ordeal, in part because Jones never asks for pity.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Idiocracy
    Idiocracy, is often stingingly funny -- and an undeserving resident of the summer's-end movie dumping ground.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Cool School
    Documentarian Morgan Neville has fashioned a spirited riposte to the groundless cliche that Los Angeles is a cultural wasteland.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Poseidon
    Among the willing cast, only Jacinda Barrett and topliners Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell and Richard Dreyfuss manage, just barely, to suggest a third dimension to the script's cursory character sketches. But that won't matter to audiences craving a disaster thrill ride.
    • 41 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Nature of Existence
    If its summary approach is less than penetrating, its underlying message of tolerance and open-mindedness is commendable.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Secondhand Lions
    Awash in nostalgia, "Lions" combines a gentle coming-of-age story with swashbuckling fantasy. While it lacks a necessary tension in its establishing scenes and might be too soft for those who prefer grittier fare.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
    The film is, at its strongest, an inspiring sensory immersion in that performance, one in which the (mostly unidentified) plants are the stars. A complex, dimensional portrait of Oudolf never quite emerges, though, and the brief doc, however lovely, lacks an essential dynamism that would make it truly compelling.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Wonder
    Wonder is a story of connection, not suffering. Dramatizing one boy's effect on the people around him, it invites the viewer into that fold.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Stupid Boy
    Until the lean script by Baier and Laurent Guido takes some unconvincing turns in the late going, the film is a credible portrait of alienation.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Captain America: Civil War
    Posing serious questions about violence and vigilantism while reveling in both, Captain America: Civil War is overlong but surprisingly light on its feet. It builds upon the plotlines of previous Avengers outings, bringing together known marquee quantities and introducing the Black Panther and a new Spidey in winning fashion.
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