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Sheri Linden
Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic
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Sheri Linden has been writing film criticism, features and essays for The Hollywood Reporter since 2003, after serving as international news editor. Previously she was reviews editor at Variety. As a longtime film critic for the Los Angeles Times, she reviewed current releases and produced a yearlong print series on vintage films for the Sunday Calendar section. Her writing has also been published by the Reuters news service and Boxoffice, Art & Antiques, and the Chicago Tribune, and she was a contributor to the TCM book Leading Men: The 50 Most Unforgettable Actors of the Studio Era.
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‘Late Shift’ Review: Gripping Drama Revolves Around an Extraordinary Leonie Benesch as an Overworked and Tireless Nurse
The ‘Teachers' Lounge’ star toplines Petra Volpe’s day-in-the-life medical procedural set in the surgical ward of a Swiss hospital.
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‘Olmo’ Review: Fernando Eimbcke’s Coming-of-Age Story Strikes a Winning Balance Between Melancholy and Gentle Farce
Set in 1979 New Mexico, the comic drama revolves around a teen boy’s attempt to juggle fun with serious family responsibilities.
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THR Critics Pick the 15 Best Films of Sundance 2025
A sexy gay cruising thriller, an all-too-timely drama about post-wildfire recovery and a shocking doc about U.S. prisons are among our critics’ faves from the fest.
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‘Magic Farm’ Review: Chloë Sevigny and Alex Wolff in an Inventive Culture-Clash Comedy That Drifts in and Out of Focus
'El Planeta' director Amalia Ulman’s sophomore feature revolves around a bungling media crew’s interactions with the residents of a rural town in Argentina.
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‘Rebuilding’ Review: Josh O’Connor Is Heart-Wrenching in a Tender Portrait of Post-Wildfire Loss and Resilience
Meghann Fahy, Amy Madigan, Kali Reis and Lily LaTorre also star in the Colorado-set drama from ‘A Love Song’ helmer Max Walker-Silverman.
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‘The Stringer’ Review: Doc Aims a Piercing Light on the Business of Journalism and the Fog of War
Bao Nguyen’s documentary tracks a two-year investigation into allegations that a Pulitzer-winning Vietnam War photo was credited to the wrong person.
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‘East of Wall’ Review: A Vivid Portrait of a Tough Young Widow Wrangling Unwanted Horses and Caring for Cast-Off Kids
Scoot McNairy and Jennifer Ehle join a cast of nonprofessional actors playing versions of themselves in a docu-fiction feature shot on the plains and Badlands of South Dakota.
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THR Critics Pick the Best Films From the Fall Festivals
An ambitious American immigrant saga, Nicole Kidman’s steamy erotic thriller, an intimate John Lennon doc and a trippy Luca Guadagnino-Daniel Craig collaboration are among our reviewers’ 15 faves out of Venice, Telluride and Toronto.
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‘One to One: John & Yoko’ Review: An Exhilarating and Deeply Political Vision of a Year in the Life
Director Kevin Macdonald combines footage of a 1972 benefit concert with a rich assortment of archival material in his portrait of the former Beatle and his artist wife during their first months in New York.
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‘I’ll Be Right There’ Review: Edie Falco Leads a Wry Comedy as the Wise and Weary Heart of a Family
Jeannie Berlin, Bradley Whitford and Michael Rapaport also star in director Brendan Walsh’s comic look at middle age and the ties that bind.
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‘Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision’ Review: Straightforward Doc Illuminates a Momentous Offstage Chapter of Rock History
The people who helped the music icon realize his groundbreaking idea for a recording studio tell the story of how it was done in John McDermott's oral history.
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‘The Fabulous Four’ Review: Susan Sarandon and Bette Midler Play Estranged Besties in a Comedy That Veers Between Flimsy and Sharp
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Megan Mullally and Bruce Greenwood also star in the Key West-set feature from director Jocelyn Moorhouse.
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