For 877 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 46% higher than the average critic
  • 5% same as the average critic
  • 49% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 3.8 points lower than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

David Hinckley's Scores

  • TV
Average review score: 59
Highest review score:
Critic Score 100
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877 tv reviews
    • Metascore: 60
    • David Hinckley 80
    In the end, the movie transcends the legal chess match, defining itself instead by the sheer wattage of Spector’s personality and his high-level sparring with a woman whose brains match his own, minus the madness.
    • Metascore: 65
    • David Hinckley 80
    Sunday’s opening of season five proves again that Falco makes this show, primarily by connecting all the passageways between comedy and tragedy.
    • Metascore: 90
    • David Hinckley 80
    This HBO special, it must be noted up front, is not for all ages. Like the other best comedians, though, Louis never seems to tack on the graphic subject matter and language simply for shock. His nongraphic bits are also just as funny, like his riff on divorce and parenting.
    • Metascore: 80
    • David Hinckley 80
    [A] powerful and impressive 40th anniversary retrospective on the Watergate case and the movie it spawned, “All the President’s Men.”
    • Metascore: 73
    • David Hinckley 80
    While there are times when it’s no easier to watch, the certainty of the end seems to give the show more focus.
    • Metascore: 75
    • David Hinckley 80
    [Genealogy] may not seem like a particularly robust thread for an eight-part series, but O’Dowd, Guest and a wonderful cast of deadpan actors and improv experts spin it into a tapestry of cheery laughter.
    • Metascore: 79
    • David Hinckley 80
    Fascinating film details history of American unit whose sole objective was to fool Hitler and Nazis by creating fake armies.
    • Metascore: 67
    • David Hinckley 75
    It's an entertaining TV show that easily could translate to a terrific comic book.
    • Metascore: 49
    • David Hinckley 75
    The more it progresses, the more surprises it unwraps, and the more promise it presents.
    • Metascore: 85
    • David Hinckley 75
    The truth is that at this point, the complex subplots and nuances of all the backstories make it more satisfying for longtime fans than for recent drop-ins.
    • Metascore: 87
    • David Hinckley 75
    ABC's dense, unblinking and occasionally surreal tale of plane-crash survivors on a strange tropical island moves into its fourth season Thursday with its compass still in good working order.
    • Metascore: 71
    • David Hinckley 75
    There's lots of humor in "Big Love" this season, but it is all based in the characters and a new spin on familiar situations.