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Sheri Linden

Agrees with the Tomatometer 75% of the time.

Publications:: Boxoffice Magazine , Chicago Tribune , Hollywood Reporter , Los Angeles Times , Variety
Critics' Group:: Los Angeles Film Critics Association

Total Reviews:: 540

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	33%	Peeples (2013)	" The performers are up to the wacko task. But one of the movie's key problems is that it only pretends to let loose, its calculated absurdity firmly tethered to the life lessons that lie in wait." — Hollywood Reporter Posted May 7, 2013
2/5	42%	Paris Manhattan (2013)	" Siphons off bits of "Play It Again, Sam," "Hannah and Her Sisters" and "Manhattan Murder Mystery" in its underwhelming tale of a thirtysomething Parisian's search for Mr. Right." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 3, 2013
2/5	18%	Aroused (2013)	" For a film that purports to go beyond the surface and uncover the "true essence" of adult film stars, "Aroused" spends a lot of time admiring the surface." — Los Angeles Times Posted May 2, 2013
3/5	58%	At Any Price (2013)	" With its fine eye for detail, At Any Price is also a complicated and revelatory look at the intersection of country folk and corporate might." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 24, 2013
	14%	Oconomowoc (2013)	" Low-rent Wes Anderson, without the style or heart." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 19, 2013
3.5/5	73%	Violeta Went to Heaven (2013)	" With its clarity and depth, Gavilan's singing is as good as her acting." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 18, 2013
	——	Eco-Pirate:The Story Of Paul Watson ()	" Admiring but hardly deifying, this portrait of an ecological warrior is compelling viewing -- as philosophical overview, character study and high-seas adventure." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 16, 2013
2.5/5	45%	Leonie (2013)	" As a portrait of female strength and a celebration of the artistic spirit, "Leonie" too seldom comes fully alive." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2013
2.5/5	0%	Lotus Eaters (2013)	" Even though the handsome black-and-white lensing is no substitute for a compelling story, it helps, infusing the skin-deep sketches of emotional enervation with aesthetic energy - for a while." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 12, 2013
	67%	Lunarcy! (2013)	" A winking portrait of visionaries, geeks and wackos that's diverting but too cheeky for its own good." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 5, 2013
3/5	92%	Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (2013)	" Without straining for big-picture significance, it provides a composed look into the revolutionary spirit." — Los Angeles Times Posted Apr 5, 2013
	76%	It's a Disaster (2013)	" Writer-director Todd Berger brings a fresh stamp to Armageddon with his sharply scripted comedy It's a Disaster, which is anything but." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Apr 1, 2013
3/5	——	Silver Case (2013)	" A brisk, good-looking and never dull B movie." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 21, 2013
2/5	39%	The Call (2013)	" The material has the mild impact of a special episode of a network crime series, with Eklund's villain a figure of mannered creepiness rather than profound chills." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 14, 2013
3/5	71%	My Amityville Horror (2013)	" The blurring of fact and fiction has been a part of the Amityville saga since it became public, but for Lutz there's no gray area in his memories, whose power is undiminished." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 14, 2013
2.5/5	63%	The Monk (2013)	" A work whose elegant atmospherics ultimately overwhelm the story, even with the terrific Vincent Cassel in the title role." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 7, 2013
4/5	90%	Beyond The Hills (2013)	" Mungiu's quietly gripping film challenges expectations, refusing to merely lay forth an argument against benighted religion or to make Alina a simple victim." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 7, 2013
1.5/5	0%	The Condemned (2013)	" A would-be thriller whose intended horror-tinged chills register as ho-hum hokum." — Los Angeles Times Posted Mar 7, 2013
3/5	——	Almost In Love (2013)	" If the romantic fate of the central triangle never matters, the sumptuous wistfulness of the filmmaking does." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 28, 2013
4/5	80%	Hitler's Children (2012)	" A film whose core is a haunting question: When parents are monstrous, where does filial love begin and end?" — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 18, 2013
3/5	27%	Escape From Planet Earth 3D (2013)	" It never discovers new worlds, but "Escape From Planet Earth" is, in its genial way, escape enough." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 18, 2013
3.5/5	82%	Like Someone in Love (2013)	" Kiarostami embarks on a typically indirect but never rambling path in "Like Someone in Love," crafting an elegant mystery that resonates beyond its final, jolting moment." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 14, 2013
2.5/5	52%	The Playroom (2013)	" The film uses the upper-middle-class setting effectively, even as it resorts to heavy-handed symbolism and melodrama in its dour, mostly unforgiving portrait of parental dysfunction." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 8, 2013
2.5/5	16%	A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)	" A noodling indulgence that's alternately freewheeling and dead in the water." — Los Angeles Times Posted Feb 7, 2013
1/5	4%	Movie 43 (2013)	" How many directors does it take to screw in a star-studded piece of aggressive stupidity and call it a movie? An even dozen, and there is no punch line." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 28, 2013
	80%	Warm Bodies (2013)	" This character-driven genre meld could have used more edge and energy, and less obvious message-mongering, but it scores in terms of atmosphere, humor and charm." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 28, 2013
	——	Inequality For All ()	" Policy wonk Robert Reich's analysis of today's parallels to the Great Depression is both statistics-driven and impassioned." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
	——	Buta ()	" There's a lovely naivete and straightforward sense of place to this modern-day folktale." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 22, 2013
4/5	94%	The Rabbi's Cat (2012)	" It's a wild and vivid ride and a spirited reminder of the kinship between Jewish and Arab cultural traditions." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 17, 2013
2/5	29%	Let My People Go! (2013)	" The road to the inevitable slapsticky Seder is paved with more sweetness than bite, a good deal of frantic foolishness and progressively thinner laughs, all wrapped in a message of acceptance and inclusiveness." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 17, 2013
2/5	17%	Brief Reunion (2013)	" Efficiently told and features solid performances, but without the juicy character detail, vise-grip suspense or black comic intensity of its memorable forerunners, it unwinds as a boilerplate genre item." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 17, 2013
3.5/5	81%	In Another Country (2013)	" A beguiling set of variations on a theme, a gossamer-light étude composed for delight rather than dissection." — Los Angeles Times Posted Jan 11, 2013
	76%	Kon Tiki (2013)	" Thor Heyerdahl's legendary rafting expedition gets glossy treatment in this handsome but underwhelming action-adventure." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 10, 2013
2/5	——	Hidden Moon ()	" The attention it pays to every fluttered eyelash, flared nostril and furrowed brow makes for one long haul of an affair." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 24, 2012
4/5	88%	Tchoupitoulas (2012)	" "Tchoupitoulas" is a jewel-bright whoosh of a ride through nighttime New Orleans." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 20, 2012
3/5	17%	Saving Grace B. Jones (2012)	" The film ably captures the painful messiness of seemingly simple lives." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 14, 2012
2.5/5	44%	Save The Date (2012)	" Lizzy Caplan and Alison Brie lend the lightweight rom-com "Save the Date" more than its fair share of watchability. But the film is never truly interesting." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 14, 2012
4/5	100%	16 Acres (2012)	" A fascinating portrait of municipal and private interests trying to make headway in the charged atmosphere of devastating personal loss and wounded national pride." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 13, 2012
3/5	86%	Who Bombed Judi Bari? (2012)	" Though its early sections feel repetitive and self-congratulatory, the doc's tension builds in the way director Mary Liz Thomson uses archival material, much of it from TV news." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 7, 2012
3/5	——	The Man Who Shook The Hand of Vincente Fernandez (2012)	" Evidence that even at 94, and even in flat surroundings, the late actor possessed undeniable screen magnetism." — Los Angeles Times Posted Dec 6, 2012
1.5/5	50%	What A Man (2012)	" With its stock characters and low-expectation high jinks, the German import "What a Man" could have been fabricated on the Hollywood rom-com assembly line." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 30, 2012
3/5	——	A Werewolf Boy (2012)	" A chaste young-adult romance that bites into supernatural melodrama, science fiction and political conspiracy theories." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 30, 2012
2/5	40%	Back to 1942 (2012)	" Director Feng Xiaogang captures the epic scale of the exodus as well as the often-harrowing details, yet emotional connection proves more elusive." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 29, 2012
3.5/5	73%	Generation P (2012)	" The movie contains enough fresh insanity and inventive visuals to make it an amusing cyberpunk extravaganza for most of its protracted running time." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 16, 2012
4/5	90%	Holy Motors (2012)	" In "Holy Motors" Carax insists on our other selves. His daylong ride is a wary celebration, a joyful dirge that's served up in concentrated form by a roving band of accordion players. It's all in a day's work." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 15, 2012
3/5	68%	This Must Be The Place (2012)	" If the movie doesn't entirely get past its hard-to-buy premise, director Paolo Sorrentino does have the courage of his convictions, not just embracing every contradiction but spinning many of the story's contrivances into moments of strange, aching beauty." — Los Angeles Times Posted Nov 1, 2012
	26%	Fun Size (2012)	" Though it doesn't always hit the hilarity target, this tween-targeted romp strikes a sweet-but-not-sappy balance." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Oct 26, 2012
3/5	——	Man At War (2012)	" Blawut's fast-moving doc is a sharp rendering of a kind of tech-enabled time travel, and the way this online fraternity is rewriting history while very much in its grip." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 25, 2012
3/5	25%	The Black Tulip (2012)	" [Portrays] a vibrant culture and its festive traditions, rarely evoked in depictions of a nation long devastated by war." — Los Angeles Times Posted Oct 25, 2012

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