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 0.1 points higher than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Alessandra Stanley's Scores
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| Average review score: | 63 |
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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 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 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 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 90
The writers do a good job of layering surprises and plot twists. It may not be Raymond Chandler, but Veronica Mars is nevertheless quite hard-boiled. [22 Sept 2004, p.E4]Posted Feb 16, 2013 -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
A worthy and exhilarating new HBO companion to "Curb Your Enthusiasm." -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
The original title, "Keep Hope Alive," is funnier, but Raising Hope better suits a very funny sitcom that leavens its satire with sympathy. -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
The second season of “Sleeper Cell” burrows even deeper into the mind-set of Muslim extremists than the first and is all the better and more troubling for it. -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
"Thief" pays homage to all the conventions of a traditional thriller and weaves into it complicated issues of guilt, race and family. It's a little like some of the better dramas on HBO, but finds its own unorthodox way. -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
Nothing on network television is as smart, original and amusing as Entourage.- Posted Apr 18, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 90
Mr. Colbert's on-camera persona may not wear well over the long term, but for now at least "The Colbert Report" is a worthy spinoff, an icy-cold beer chaser to the shot of whiskey that is "The Daily Show." -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
Luckily for NBC, which bought the rights to the British comedy, only a relatively small number of viewers in the United States have seen the BBC version. Those happy few should try to erase every trace from their brains -- Eternal Sunshine of the Digital Cable Mind -- because the NBC series, though it pales in comparison, is still funnier than any other new network sitcom.- Posted May 17, 2013
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