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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    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Beans
    Mohawk director Tracey Deer, who lived through the violent 78-day conflict as a 12-year-old, has made a film that's eye-opening. Beyond her firsthand understanding of indigenous people's struggles, she's keenly attuned to girlhood growing pains — well captured in the expressive and engaging performance by Kiawentiio, leading a strong cast.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    The result is a character-driven mystery of considerable emotional power, often harrowing and always compelling.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Crime Is Mine
    The Crime Is Mine has a borderline-cartoonish buoyancy. If it’s not as funny as it wants to be, that’s because most of the characters are given a single note to play. But they do it with irresistible gusto.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    It's a Disaster
    The script excels at character-driven laughs, cerebral yet goofy, without resorting to sitcom stereotypes or genitalia-focused stupidity.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Serenity
    An appealingly low-rent, if not earth-shattering, 26th century "Star Wars" with faint glimmers of "Blade Runner," "Buckaroo Banzai" and "The Manchurian Candidate" for good measure.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Barkley Marathons: The Race That Eats Its Young
    "The truth is malleable,” an onscreen title declares at the beginning of the film. It’s also somewhat elusive in this saga, which is less an investigation than a spirited tribute. But the combination of humor and grit is always intriguing.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Gook
    The low-budget movie, shot in artful black-and-white by Ante Cheng, pulses with yearning and sorrow and love for its characters. Its brightening touches of underplayed humor strengthen and comment on the main action.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Libertine
    Johnny Depp makes a riveting antihero in a dark and bawdy period drama.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Happy Hour
    Terrific performances by Anthony LaPaglia, Eric Stoltz and Caroleen Feeney infuse this well-written comic drama with a realistic ease.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Just Like Heaven
    Crossing the life-death divide, Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo are a winning pair in this smart and tender comedy.
    • 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.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    At Any Price
    Bahrani sometimes pushes too hard as he reaches for big drama. But when the story works, it has a dark power that draws shrewdly upon his two leads' screen charisma.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Dying Laughing
    Though the engaging documentary treads through unavoidably familiar territory — the loneliness of the road, the anguish of bombing — its chorus of testifiers often find sharp new angles of approach.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Girl Next Door
    Sharp, vivacious comedy.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Contractor
    Director Tarik Saleh, whose previous feature was the excellent Cairo-set neo-noir The Nile Hilton Incident, stages the shoot-’em-ups and explosions effectively, but it’s the film’s quiet exchanges that carry the most visceral punch.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Secret in Their Eyes
    It’s a solid genre outing with unsettling topical resonance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    In the Shadow of Women
    Like his previous feature, "Jealousy," the film is shot in sumptuous black-and-white and revolves around artistic Parisians. But in its elegant almost threadbare simplicity, it's a more effective story, anchored by three persuasive performances and a sly sense of irony.
    • 71 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Stolen Seas
    The documentary Stolen Seas is not just a high-energy chronicle of a ship's hijacking; Thymaya Payne's bold debut feature steps back for a view of Somali piracy that's both broader and more incisive than most mainstream news coverage.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
    Long deemed unfilmable, the 18th century novel finds the perfect interpreters in director Michael Winterbottom and actor Steve Coogan.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Pearl Jam Twenty
    Cameron Crowe's feature documentary is among his most effective and deeply felt work.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Widowmaker
    Despite confusing information about the role of diet and lifestyle, The Widowmaker is a lucid and important work of advocacy journalism. It illuminates yet another way that mainstream medicine thrives on crisis rather than health.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Janes
    Speaking with a number of the women who broke the law in the name of justice, and others who were involved in their underground network, The Janes directors Tia Lessin and Emma Pildes have made an urgent and thoroughly engaging group portrait.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Snowtime!
    Though the story’s midsection, with its shifting alliances and reversals, feels distended, the movie offers well-defined characters and an inventive sense of earthbound fun, as well as poignant moments.
    • 56 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Glass Castle
    Even while gesturing toward a redemptive sacred altar, a default mode for parenthood in many mainstream movies, the director lets the messy realities stand. And his fine cast makes them ring true — the selfishness and neglect, the confrontations brutal and tender, the pained silences and, not least, the gusts of pure, jagged joy.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Ivory Game
    The grim economic realities behind such trafficking are glancingly acknowledged. There’s real impact, though, in the anger and grief of law enforcement officials and conservationists when their tracking leads them to elephant carcasses.
    • 51 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    This Beautiful Fantastic
    Writer-director Simon Aboud doesn’t push the quirk factor; even when the narrative is at its most playful, he keeps it rooted to a lived-in reality. Mining familiar territory with an earnest clarity, he shapes a mild yet winning fantasy about hearts opening and friendships blooming.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Hidden Figures
    The fine, spirited work of Taraji P. Henson, Spencer and Janelle Monae as irresistible rooting interests, as well as Kevin Costner’s winningly lived-in turn as the head of Langley’s Space Task Group, deepen a film that’s propelled by sitcommy beats and expository dialogue.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
    Lynch's film is a work of steady chronological progression. Without straining for big-picture significance, it provides a composed look into the revolutionary spirit.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Where Have You Gone, Lou DiMaggio?
    To prepare himself for the big leap back onstage, DiMaggio talks to friends from the New York comedy scene of the ’80s, many of them now household names. Their conversations, filled with smart and spirited observations about showbiz and the business of life, are the heart of this engaging film, and a delight.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Swim Team
    The doc’s personal portraits of the work required to forge an independent life should connect with and inspire parents and educators.
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