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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    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground
    The documentary's talking heads include Rubin's aunt and cousin as well as artists, friends and critics — notably Amy Taubin, whose personal recollections are particularly incisive. Even with this mix of voices, Smith doesn't try to fill in the many gaps in Rubin's story but to honor them, along with her creative and spiritual impulses.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Kanarie
    A winning combination of thoughtfulness and exuberance.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Duck Season
    The lovely, unpredictable comedy Duck Season marks the arrival of a fresh talent in writer-director Fernando Eimbcke. His script is vibrant with unforced humanist observations, the performances are natural and endearing.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road
    In his interactions with his band, with Fine, with his family (eldest daughter Carnie Wilson appears in the film but isn’t interviewed), the documentary is a portrait of friendship and love as much as it’s about music. And beneath it all, the essential aloneness of the artist resounds
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    The Bikeriders
    What resonates beyond the brawls and blood is a profound affection for the people onscreen — those grace notes provided by a fine cast, with Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy stirring undercurrents that are particularly affecting precisely because they’re never explicitly examined or explained.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Up and Down
    Accomplished and affecting art house fare.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Nossa Chape
    Nossa Chape is a testament to how moving forward does not require leaving the past behind.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Blue Sun Palace
    In massage parlor reception areas and backrooms, working-class restaurants and karaoke bars, Tsang and her strong cast, with superb contributions from production designer Evaline Wu Huang, have captured something evanescent and life-giving, and grounded it in kitchen clatter and workplace chatter, the gritty day-to-day.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    A Little Prayer
    The emotional impact of A Little Prayer doesn’t so much detonate as unfold, a series of quiet epiphanies, well-observed and elegant in their awkward yearning.
    • 57 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom
    The film is essential viewing for anyone who cares about the fate of the mountain region and the legacy of the Dalai Lama.
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    • 80 Sheri Linden
    The Tiniest Place
    At once impressionistic and precise,The Tiniest Place (El Lugar más pequeño) is a beautifully rendered memory piece that insists on the necessity of memory.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus
    La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus is just what the title indicates — and that turns out be an intimate and vivid report on a surprising connection between North and Central America.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Rustin
    Wolfe has made an admiring but nuanced feature that doesn’t aim for biopic completism or cause-and-effect formula.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Mistaken for Strangers
    A documentary that's insightful, sweet and often hilarious.
    • 48 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Morgan
    The thrilling premise of Morgan eventually gets muddled amid standard thriller-action, blunting the intended impact of a final sequence that should produce chills, but instead merely provides information. Still, those seeking smart, edgy genre fare will find plenty to savor in this well-cast drama.
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    • 80 Sheri Linden
    I Am Not Alone
    I Am Not Alone is an inspiring portrait of democratic self-determination.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    I'm Your Man
    This is a comedy that finds poetry in unexpected places: the ancient cuneiform that Alma studies, and the invented past that Tom concocts to explain their romance. With sly humor and no small ache, I'm Your Man asks if we really want our fantasies to come true, and what happens when we fall in love.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Whose Streets?
    Filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis were among those on the front lines of the protests against police violence and their on-the-ground, from-the-heart documentary Whose Streets? communicates that urgency from the inside out — not as news story or social theory, but as communal experience and awakening.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    The Stones and Brian Jones
    The rivalrous power dynamic between Jones and frontman Jagger is captured in brilliant subtlety in the glances between them during an impromptu interview. But the deeper throughline of The Stones and Brian Jones involves the primal wound of a prodigal son.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Transamerica
    Impressively realized on all levels, this transgender spin on the road trip boasts an extraordinary central performance.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet
    Though it can at times feel wanting in dramatic heft or clarity, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet can also be revelatory, and its drama flowers in delightfully unflashy ways.
    • 65 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Camille Claudel 1915
    In Binoche's masterfully contained performance, Camille's clouded eyes sometimes brighten. If we didn't know how her story will unfold, that spark might have been comforting.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Everybody Knows... Elizabeth Murray
    Within the concise running time, Zea brings a remarkable life and body of work into dynamic focus.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    My Octopus Teacher
    My Octopus Teacher is not the first documentary to plunge us into the otherworldly flora and fauna of Earth's oceans . . . But it is the first to chronicle a single sea creature's story from such a personal, openhearted perspective, revealing not just emotional connections but animal behaviors previously unknown to scientists.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Logan
    Seamlessly melding Marvel mythology with Western mythology, James Mangold has crafted an affectingly stripped-down stand-alone feature, one that draws its strength from Hugh Jackman’s nuanced turn as a reluctant, all but dissipated hero.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Charlotte Sometimes
    In his feature debut, writer-director Eric Byler demonstrates a refreshing trust in his material and his audience, crafting a compact, intriguing drama from understated performances and a subtle visual sensibility.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    In Between
    However pointed the drama's lessons, they're never simplistic and always involving, pulsing with compassion and urgency as Hamoud's vivid characters defy the rules.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Tupac: Resurrection
    A poet warrior of the first order emerges in this riveting chronicle of the brief life and times of rap superstar Tupac Shakur.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Birthright: A War Story
    With its chilling evidence of fetus-centric policies in practice, Birthright shows Big Brother in action, and at his most misogynistic.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 80 Sheri Linden
    Submission
    Honoring the primacy of language for his characters, Levine deftly reveals the ways they wield it to seduce, attack, manipulate, repress and, occasionally, to communicate.
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