Alynda Wheat, Entertainment Weekly
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For 31 reviews, this critic has graded:
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90% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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7% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7 points higher than other critics.
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Alynda Wheat's Scores
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91
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33
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Alynda Wheat 91
Tim Gunn still motherhens the designers, the dramatic arcs feel familiar (one designer is a recovering addict, another gave up a career as a surgeon), and--wonders to behold--there's even a branch of the fabric store Mood in Runway's new Los Angeles home. -
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Alynda Wheat 91
You know this Dr. Who spin-off aims to please when the return of Capt. Jack Harkness (John Barrowman) isn't even the big news.... With [Capt.] John [James Marsters] adding such a fun, unhinged element, it's a shame these two crazy kids broke up in the first place. -
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Alynda Wheat 91
Mirren's Elzabeth is emotional... But with that comes soemthing as rare on TV as it is rewarding--a love affair involving people over the age of 50. [21 Apr 2006, p.67] -
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Alynda Wheat 91
This sly Britcom is like a C-SPAN spin-off of... The Office. [12 May 2006, p.75] -
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Alynda Wheat 91
The access is such that you almost wish every member of Congress had a TV crew. [25 Aug 2006, p.81] -
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Alynda Wheat 83
Oka is pure delight as a wage slave who's broken the space-time continuum, and... Grunberg shines as a telepathic cop. [29 Sep 2006, p.71] -
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Alynda Wheat 83
The resolution with the ghost is plenty satisfying, but ultimately Medium's strength is that it's not about the ghosts. -
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Alynda Wheat 83
[O'Toole's] Casanova may have lust in his heart, but it's his love for Henriette... that guides his life and makes the tale worth the telling. [6 Oct 2006, p.64] -
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Alynda Wheat 83
Naturally funny interviews are easy TV; it's with drier material that the animators shine. [8 Jun 2007, p.74] -
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Alynda Wheat 83
With a pleasant blend of quirkiness and charm, this is an M.I.T. we can all get into. [15 Sep 2006, p.68] -
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Alynda Wheat 83
Wars is funnier than a movie about wedge politics has a right to be. [15 Dec 2006, p.80] -
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Alynda Wheat 83
Mary Poppins it ain't--which is fine because the snooty broad couldn't begin to handle this. [21 Sep 2007, p.74] -
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Alynda Wheat 83
The humor is wilder, the penury sadder, and Sophie Okonedo a winsome Nancy. The only bad twist is the overwrought score. -
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Alynda Wheat 75
On its mild merits, it proves worthy. [2 Dec 2005, p.73] -
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Alynda Wheat 75
[Lovespring is filled] with some of the best comedic talent out there. [16 Jun 2006, p.68] -
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Alynda Wheat 75
Neither as incisive as The Office, nor as over-the-top loony as Reno 911!, Dog ends up being too much bark and not quite enough bite. [9 Jun 2006, p.132] -
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Alynda Wheat 75
For the willing, it's still a story worth hearing. [2 Mar 2007, p.64] -
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Alynda Wheat 75
It's a novel idea: Remove the middleman and let artists interview themselves. [25 Nov 2005, p.96] -
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Alynda Wheat 75
Jean appears to have liked humiliation... Such masochism is hard to watch, even with a stellar cast. [24 Feb 2006, p.58] -
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Alynda Wheat 75
The material's solid, but it won't convince the newbies. -
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Alynda Wheat 58
It's best to ignore the attempts at deep thought, enjoy the pretty cast, and guzzle it like diet pop. [30 Sep 2005, p.87] -
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Alynda Wheat 50
It's probably too much to ask costars Matthew Modine and Broadway royalty Audra McDonald to inject some depth, but we're pleading anyway. [31 Mar 2006, p.57] -
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Alynda Wheat 50
Free Ride can't milk any fresh laughs from this fish-back-in-water tale. [3 Mar 2006, p.96] -
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Alynda Wheat 50
The real shocker is the credibility holes bigger than the ones air-conditioning this bird. [30 Sep 2005, p.89] -
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Alynda Wheat 50
Sadly, Welcome to the Captain just isn't funny or inspired enough to nail the peek-behind-the-Hollywood-curtain genre. -
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Alynda Wheat 42
Home isn't a bad show--it's just bad-intentioned. [7 Oct 2005, p.64] -
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Alynda Wheat 42
[It] makes Los Angeles look as dreary and sluggish as Goldblum's performance. [16 Mar 2007, p.65] -
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Alynda Wheat 42
Sherman-Palladino forces the sisters on each other out of an almost crippling sense of joint self-interest that's as painful as it is illogical. -
