Alessandra Stanley, The New York Times
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For 344 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 0.3 points higher than other critics.
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Alessandra Stanley's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 190 out of 344
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Mixed: 132 out of 344
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Negative: 22 out of 344
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The hero of Awake has a psychiatric problem; there are no aliens or ghosts to explain away the more improbable turns, and this adventure is far more compelling.- Posted Feb 29, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 80
HBO does an expert job of turning Ms. Fisher's 2 hour and 20 minute monologue into a documentary, with only a few, artfully chosen embellishments.- Posted Dec 14, 2010
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Alessandra Stanley 30
ABC Family means well but could not have done worse. Secret Life doesn’t take the fun out of teenage pregnancy, it takes the fun out of television. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
Despite the repetitions, the first four episodes are slick, fast-paced and engrossing, but that’s not new either. -
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Alessandra Stanley 40
Viewers are treated to the spectacle of teenagers who can freely roam New York unsupervised by parents or teachers, tethered, by their own volition, to the strict rules and unyielding cliches of a Bravo reality show. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
Last Resort is an action-adventure mystery slickly coated with suspense, but some of the uncertainty lies over whether the story can stay afloat for more than a few episodes.- Posted Sep 26, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 50
Those jokes are supposed to establish Liz’s geek cred, but they mostly serve as speed bumps in the show’s otherwise fast and clever banter. -
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Alessandra Stanley 50
Women’s Murder Club is all right, but not good enough. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The premiere episode of Life on Mars, by contrast [to "Kath & Kim"], is strange and exhilarating. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The series is part spy spoof, part workplace comedy, and it is a genuinely engaging homage to the nerd hero. -
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Alessandra Stanley 40
The show's characters are flat and so is the writing, but there is something universally appealing about blood, guts and a rushing gurney. There is no Dr. Feelgood in House, but the patients' symptoms provide a little consolation.- Posted Mar 11, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Ms. Palin dominates as a disarming egotist whose presumption is balanced by charisma and animal cunning--and in this film, as in life, she has the last smirk.- Posted Mar 8, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 60
Cinema Verite is a clever, beautifully made but somehow underwhelming re-enactment of the breakup of the Loud marriage, on camera and off.- Posted Apr 21, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 70
It’s the pacing that makes Breaking Bad more of a hard slog than a cautionary joy ride. It has good acting, particularly by Bryan Cranston (“Malcolm in the Middle”), who blends Walt’s sad-sack passivity with glints of wry self-awareness. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
A satirical and quite funny comedy about two British television writers, a husband- and wife team, Sean and Beverly Lincoln (Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig) who are lured to Hollywood to adapt their hit sitcom for an American network.- Posted Jan 6, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 70
The series is not easy to follow or instantly love, but it is impossible to dismiss.- Posted Feb 25, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Upstairs Downstairs sticks to the rules established by the original and defies the odds by being as good, and in some ways, even better.- Posted Apr 7, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Both series [The Bletchley Circle and "Call the Midwife"] find a clever, entertaining way to pay tribute to women who in their time were often overlooked and underestimated, and nevertheless found ways to never be ordinary.- Posted Apr 19, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
"Entourage" is as good as ever in its third season, yet somehow different. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
The series is bold in its candor and unhurried attention to detail, but not quite brave enough to lay bare the bleakest, pettiest injuries that can scar a marriage. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
Together Mr. Grammer and Ms. Heaton lift Back to You, a comedy that begins tonight on Fox, into a surprisingly amusing half-hour. -
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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 80
Lone Star offers an amusing and novel television conceit, but in an age of Enron and Bernard Madoff, it takes a very persuasive actor to keep viewers rooting for a swindler. Mr. Wolk is well cast. -
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Alessandra Stanley 50
The novelty of the hour-by-hour conceit wore off long ago, and the various plot devices and characters are all familiar. The fun, at least at the beginning of a new season, is in seeing how the creators will rejigger the pieces this time around. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
By 1:20 p.m. the series's third season is already as tightly coiled, clever and suspenseful as the first two. [28 Oct 2003]Posted Jun 18, 2013 -
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Alessandra Stanley 50
It’s creepy, steamy and funny at times, and it’s also a muddle, a comic murder mystery that is a little too enthralled with its own exoticism. -
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Alessandra Stanley 60
"Chuck" has interests similar to those of the heroes of Big Bang, including a lack of interest in chasing women, but his comedy is more inventive--the better bet in a new era in which the nerd no longer loses, but the best nerd show wins. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
This show is smart and rigorous, with a concentration that bores deep without growing dull. -
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Alessandra Stanley 60
"Big Love" gets better and more compelling, once the plot thickens and the wives' personalities and conflicts take deeper form. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
By using a celebrity as a Trojan horse, Teach offers an engaging and intimate look at just how complicated and difficult teaching can be at a large, urban public high school. -
