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66 out of 100

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  • Starring: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ryan Simpkins, Sam Bottoms
  • Summary: Three years after entering prison for robbery as a 19-year-old heroin addict, Sherry Swanson (Gyllenhaal) begins her first day of freedom, clean and sober. A model prisoner who has undergone personal transformation, she immediately sets out to regain custody of her young daughter Alexis. (IFC Films)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 18
  3. Negative: 1 out of 18
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    100
    Maggie Gyllenhaal is such a miracle of an actress that she makes you respond to the innocence of Sherry's desperate, selfish destruction.
  2. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    50
    Sherrybaby is the kind of pretend-arty Sundance thing that gives indie cinema a bad name.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    25
    A movie bursting with nothingness.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 12
  3. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. LeeA.
    10
    Trejo was pitch perfect. Esposito about as authentic as his turn in, "The Wire." Gyllenhaal...what better to say than her performance was not like watching a consummate actor; it was like observing the real thing. As for Collyer's script: she's either a 12 stepper, or one terrifically objective and, ( in this sense, could this be an oxymron??, ) "sympathetic" medium.… Expand
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  2. MarcK.
    5
    Very dark and sad. Not bad, but not all that I heard it was cracked up to be. I liked MG better in "Stranger Than Fiction."
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  3. Meghan
    3
    Overrated. Vulgar for the sake of jusy being vulgar because it's an "independent film" and they feel that they can could get away with it. Magge G did nothing but whine her way through it. Questions were left unanswered. Thoroughly disappointing. I wish they had just stayed with the mother daughter aspect of the film instead of constantly going to the sex aspect of the film.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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