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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    • 60 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Genesis 2.0
    Genesis 2.0 is a double-stranded helix of a real-life thriller, chilling and unforgettable. An inquiry into the brave new world of "synthetic biology," it moves between two filmmakers in very different locations. Their twinned subjects, whose connections are gradually revealed, are past and future, superstition and logic, a hunter and his scientist brother.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 90 Sheri Linden
    Brother and Sister
    There isn’t a predictable moment, and Cotillard (who last worked with Desplechin on Ismael’s Ghosts) and Poupaud (who played a far more even-keeled Vuillard in A Christmas Tale) inhabit their roles with bracing fearlessness.
    • 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Sweet Bean
    Its sentimentality is tempered by the elegant restraint of the fine lead performances.
    • 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.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    MDMA
    It’s Wang’s eye for social realities, brought to life by her cast, that gives her film its edge.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    Bad Times at the El Royale
    It's great to look at, nearly giddy with pop-culture love, and its particulars are intriguing. But those pieces — by turns weird, soulful and exhilarating — merely accumulate, when they should be generating magic.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Red Doors
    Well-told and charming, debuting writer-helmer Georgia Lee's comedy-drama Red Doors is big on heart but never sappy. Without overdoing the quirk factor or the melodrama, Lee shows a sure feel for family dynamics, and her light touch brings out the best in the ensemble's lovely, understated performances.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    What Would Jesus Buy?
    Despite effective moments, VanAlkemade's film is too diffuse. He gives us snippets of the group's spirited performances, but their effect on audiences remains unclear.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    On My Way
    It's the loosely connected encounters of the early sequences that are remarkable in their poignancy and humor.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    Dark Night
    At its strongest, Dark Night taps into the emptiness, hurt and longing beneath the pings and swipes of our "connected" world. But for all its artfulness, the film doesn’t shed light so much as push buttons.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Magic Farm
    Magic Farm features a stupendous cast fully in sync with Ulman’s deadpan absurdity. The actors effortlessly entwine the droll and the ingenuous, but as Ulman juggles more characters and more plot angles than in her first movie, there isn’t necessarily more payoff.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    Brahmin Bulls
    In Ashok's reunion with the love of his life (Mary Steenburgen) — the chance to see her after many years is the true reason for his trip — the film taps into a tender wistfulness, Steenburgen making her character's every glance and hesitation resonate with emotion.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Vice Is Broke
    Huang has made an eye-opening capsule history that will resonate most keenly with Vice fans. But there’s something more widely instructive, too, in his portrait of a culture clash that turned into an unlikely courtship: ragtag punks and the investment bankers eager to hit the “millennial sweet spot.”
    • 60 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    To the Stars
    Director Martha Stephens' atmospheric period piece is in many ways its own planet: The world it conjures is a woman's world — not a world that women created or rule, but one where their longings, dissatisfactions and sorrows are center stage, and most of the story's men and boys look on from the periphery, when they're not lashing out.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Isn't It Romantic
    For all its winking jabs, this blend of giddy bits and teachable moments eventually follows the same old playbook.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Sheri Linden
    Standing Tall
    If director Emmanuelle Bercot's feature isn't always dramatically satisfying, it is fueled by the fine, flinty chemistry of Catherine Deneuve, Benoît Magimel and newcomer Rod Paradot.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 50 Sheri Linden
    Anthropoid
    The movie both embraces and questions the romance of heroism, a provocative paradox that would have had more dramatic oomph if the screenplay were less staid, the characters more fully fleshed.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    The Rundown
    Those not in the smackdown frame of mind will find an overabundance of head-butts, body slams and pounding aural effects -- this is a definite contender for loudest film of the year -- but also will discover instances of innovative, spectacular stuntwork and, though the comic interplay often falls flat, a story with heart.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 70 Sheri Linden
    Voyeur
    [A] fascinating and frustrating documentary.
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