Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times
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For 337 reviews, this critic has graded:
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58% higher than the average critic
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2% same as the average critic
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40% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.2 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Alessandra Stanley's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 185 out of 337
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Mixed: 130 out of 337
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Negative: 22 out of 337
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Alessandra Stanley 100
[It] may be the most creative and richly imagined [season] yet: it begins by going over old ground and yet something new and totally surprising happens. -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
Snobs may sneer that the series could more accurately be called "Remains of the Gosford/Upstairs/Brideshead Revisited Park." But there are times when a sincere imitation is not only better than nothing--it's nearly as good.- Posted Jan 6, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 90
Carrie is hard to like, but Homeland is almost impossible to resist.- Posted Sep 29, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 80
As it lurches to its conclusion, the politics of "Deadwood" keep growing more dense and colorful, and that magnificent obsession crowds out other primal forces. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
"24" still provides an irresistible blend of iPodish computer wizardry and "Perils of Pauline" cliffhanger suspense. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
It's... a lot of fun: "The O.C." for the Stanley H. Kaplan set. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The final season of The Wire is committed to proving him wrong; by leaving nothing out it offers viewers as close a chance as anyone can get to everything. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
The series gets better and more engrossing with time, but it takes more than a few episodes for it to clear its throat, establish its bona fides and fall into storytelling stride. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
"Everybody Hates Chris" is the first show in a long time centered on a teenager whose main problem is not adolescent angst, but real life. And Mr. Rock makes it funny, not maudlin or mean. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
[Broadbent] is unrecognizable and remarkable in the role of Longford, capturing both the man’s dotty hauteur and his awkward, absent-minded chivalry. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
At this point, the context may be more interesting than the characters.- Posted Mar 22, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 90
Mad Men beguiles like a Christmas catalog of all the forbidden vices, especially smoking, drinking and social inequity. Yet the series is more than a period piece. It’s a sleek, hard-boiled drama with a soft, satirical core. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
This is an elliptically told tale, and it takes a few episodes for the plot and the characters to pick up steam. -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
Lena Dunham's much anticipated comedy about four single women in New York is worth all the fuss, even though it invites comparisons to Carrie Bradshaw and friends, and even though it incites a lot of dreary debate about the demise of feminism.- Posted Apr 12, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Those first fugues into Don's hidden past are not the most inviting way into a new season, however. Mad Men is essentially one long flashback, an artfully imagined historic re-enactment of an era when America was a soaring superpower feeling its first shivers of mortality. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
In the fog of war movies, some events are hard to follow, a few characters are easily confused, but the series is never less than spellbinding. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The story of Ned (Lee Pace), a young man who can bring the dead back to life, is sweetly odd, but also oddly charming. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
In many ways the second season is richer. The stories are again lifted from “Be’ Tipul,” but set in New York, the epicenter of post-Freudian civilization and its discontents. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Now they are the last blinkered women in the bunker, hoarding designer shoes and awaiting an Evite back to the glamorous life. They don't belong there, and that's what makes them so welcome.- Posted Jan 6, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The multitude of exegeses and theories devoted to major plot twists and minor details attest to the series’s enduring egghead appeal. -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
The Killing is as bleak and oppressive as any, but it's so well told that it's almost heartening.- Posted Apr 1, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 70
Season 2 is in many ways as captivating and addictive as the first, but this time around, the series comes off as a shameless throwback to itself.- Posted Jan 6, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The series is a clever update, not to say rip-off, of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” set behind the scenes at an NBC comedy show rather than in a television newsroom, and it is very funny. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
On "State of Play" and Prime Suspect, ordinary men and women take center stage and hold it beautifully. [16 Apr 2004, p.E1]Posted Dec 7, 2011 -
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Alessandra Stanley 30
Sometimes the humor is so heavy-handed that it seems almost like self-parody. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Generation Kill, which has a superb cast and script, provides a searingly intense, clear-eyed look at the first stage of the war, and it is often gripping. But like a beautiful woman who swathes herself in concealing clothes and distracting hats, the series fights its own intrinsic allure. -
