Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
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For 265 reviews, this critic has graded:
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64% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Sheri Linden's Scores
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| Average review score: | 61 |
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20
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 127 out of 265
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Mixed: 119 out of 265
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Negative: 19 out of 265
265
movie reviews
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Sheri Linden 50
Oscar-nominee John Hawkes' convincing portrayal of real-life "crop artist" Stan Herd is the exceedingly quiet center of an exceedingly nonabrasive film that has all the dramatic energy of plants growing.- Posted Apr 28, 2011
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Sheri Linden 50
Amid the would-be and actual laughs, the screenplay tries to drum up drama, but every disagreement and tension is treated superficially and summarily resolved.- Posted May 11, 2012
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Sheri Linden 50
Moll's restraint gives way to a tastefully overwrought checklist of Gothic imagery. In the cloistered shadows and the harsh Castilian sun, the visuals are handsome, even as the movie threatens to tip into parody.- Posted Mar 7, 2013
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Sheri Linden 50
Propelled by enthusiastic reviews, the entertaining but ultimately disappointing documentary will entice the fashion-forward and fashion-curious.- Posted May 6, 2013
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Sheri Linden 50
A challenge to eco-orthodoxy, Pandora's Promise subscribes to its own dogma. The lack of opposing voices diminishes the film, even as Stone raises issues that shouldn't be discounted out of hand.- Posted Jun 13, 2013
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Sheri Linden 40
Even as agile a performer as Sandra Bullock seems to be straining here amid the repetitive jokes and muddled girl-power message. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Doesn't serve up enough laughs to build a theatrical following but could find life on video as a takeout item. -
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Sheri Linden 40
If state-of-the-art cross-gender fat suits and drunken Chihuahuas were the stuff of comic genius, Big Momma's House 2 still wouldn't be very funny. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Heavy-handedness prevails, with the schmaltzy original score as unconvincing as the script. An over-reliance on song, from pop to Puccini to Ellington to hip-hop, doesn't compensate for what's lacking in the storytelling. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Rudd is an underappreciated comic actor, and his line readings are the best thing in the film, but the bland role barely taps his talent. Amid the rest of the cast's one-note posing, his scenes with a parrot have a spontaneity and wit otherwise in short supply. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Every triumph registers low on the emotion meter, and most of the supporting characters are two-dimensional at best. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Simon Pegg is likably smart and obnoxious as the fish-out-of-water Brit in high-gloss Manhattan, but he's swimming upstream in a feature that substitutes slapstick for scathing wit. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Contributions of the accomplished cast notwithstanding, this period drama takes a few too many spins around the downward spiral, making it hard to believe as well as unpleasant. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Augurs well for dazzling visual work but struggles mightily on the storytelling front. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Starts out as an exuberant romp but soon gets trapped in a holding pattern of dumb sex and toilet jokes. -
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Sheri Linden 40
The finely observed moments in Stateside accumulate little emotional power. The promise of something startling and compelling goes unfulfilled, and the arc of the central love story isn't interesting enough to sustain the drama. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Tries to be too many things, none very convincingly: plea for tolerance, docu-style character study, old-fashioned weepie. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Assembling this vehicle for his young clients, music producer/manager/video director Christopher B. Stokes has attached an anemic plot to a series of dynamic hip-hop dance sequences. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Generally succeeds -- in hit-and-miss fashion -- at bridging the gap between unlikable jerk and misunderstood good guy, though it's still something of a leap to leading-man territory. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Compounding the sense of predictability and deja vu is the presence of well-known TV actors portraying the sorts of characters they've perfected on the small screen. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Actual footage of Afghanistan makes it an interesting experiment, but as a dramatic thriller, the story of an American documaker is not as taut or compelling as it could be; instead, it's often confusing and irritating. -
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Sheri Linden 40
As the film veers between cartoonish and earnest, it doesn't so much find bliss as try very hard to manufacture it. -
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Sheri Linden 40
Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn play the guys they always play in this sci-fi comedy misfire.- Posted Jul 26, 2012
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Sheri Linden 40
It buzzes along for a while, the promising plot innovations inviting suspension of disbelief, before by-the-numbers implausibility, over-the-top valor and unsavory contrivances take over and the line goes dead.- Posted Mar 14, 2013
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Sheri Linden 40
More than a gimmick, that self-conscious visual strategy suits the self-impressed creative-class characters, even as it is, finally, more interesting than they are.- Posted Feb 28, 2013
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