Ginia Bellafante, The New York Times
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For 134 reviews, this critic has graded:
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44% higher than the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.6 points lower than other critics.
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Ginia Bellafante's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 58 out of 134
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Mixed: 50 out of 134
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Negative: 26 out of 134
134
tv reviews
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Ginia Bellafante 100
It is the seamless weaving of Marshall's personal biography with the story of his tenure as chief counsel for the N.A.A.C.P., where he worked to challenge the separate-but-equal doctrine used to justify racial segregation in the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson, that keeps Thurgood a work of such enthralling theater and television.- Posted Feb 24, 2011
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Ginia Bellafante 90
Tthe best new half-hour of funny television in a season rife with half-hours of funny television. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
What is implied elsewhere is confronted aggressively in the terrifically restive FX drama Rescue Me. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The current season, exquisitely plotted so far, deals in part with the repercussions of outing. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Though the setting has shifted from New York to Los Angeles, the look and feel of the show are essentially unchanged, with Heidi Klum and her Valkyrie manner still doing the hosting and Tim Gunn continuing to bring an Oxford don’s comportment to his sartorial mentoring. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Top Chef promises more than a clash of personalities; it inspires patriotism. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Friday Night Lights (which begins Wednesday on DirecTV, the satellite subscription service that is helping finance it, and moves to NBC in February) is delivered with the precision and manner of ethnography--it never condescends. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Had it arrived 10 or 15 years earlier, when long-form narrative was not the dominant form on cable television, it would have been felt, arguably, more as an explosion than a trickle. The series has at least so far failed to find a large audience, indicating perhaps how much we have come to take good serial drama for granted. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The nature-nurture question has always been central to the show: had his upbringing been different, would his genetic makeup still have led him onto the same path? Now the stakes have been raised compellingly in that debate. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
There’s a cynicism balancing the upbeat goofiness of Eli Stone. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The show works because Ms. Applegate is the kind of comic actress who could never be completely believable as a goody-two-shoes. She puts a healthy ironic distance between herself and that dreaded entity, the better person her character must become. You look in her eyes, and, happily, you see a recidivist. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Guided by an ambient lunacy, the show resists forced restlessness, settling in and fleshing out its characters’ idiosyncrasies instead. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
One of the more humanizing adventures in science fiction to arrive in quite a while, the series is taut, haunting, relevant and an exploration of adolescent exceptionalism rendered without the cheerleading uniforms and parody of “Heroes.” -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The narrative structure of the show is incredibly satisfying: During each hour a crime is committed and solved, as Charlie’s search for who might have framed him provides the overriding arch, satisfying our short attention spans and taste for long-form narrative at once. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The most endearing comedy about love to come to television since the Manolos were packed up and put away. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
There is a genuine suspense and thrill to the show now, but it succeeds largely as a treatise not on the tragedy of cancer but on the sheer monotony of it, the relentless waiting around. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Britain in the 1980s is arguably a lot more interesting than Britain in the ’70s, and Ashes to Ashes sharply engages the factionalism of the day: the mounting antipathies of the working class, the growth of privatization and development, the fury over nuclear armament. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
There is a slow-growth, artisanal quality to the franchise, and the series, which stars an excellent Jill Scott as Precious, remains true to it. Anyone impatient with languorous pacing on television is at orange-alert risk of feeling fidgety. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
A winsome, quick-paced caper that is part “Catch Me if You Can,” part “Shampoo.” -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
There is an appealing cheekiness to the show’s insistence on dressing up hunch work as the purview of serious science. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Like so many contemporary television thrillers, FlashForward works just as powerfully as a domestic drama as it does as a mechanism of apocalyptic intrigue. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
There’s an engrossing moodiness to Mr. Williamson’s latest venture, but one he conveys without annulling the pact he long ago made with himself never to let his cheekiness go undetected. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
What could have easily become a pandering hybrid is in fact intelligent, emotionally resonant television. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Huge imparts lessons while avoiding the tenor of an instructional, and in many ways it feels like a hybrid of two distinct eras of adolescent television, one marked by a heartfelt languor and the other by a media-fluent sarcasm. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Alice Morgan (Ruth Wilson), whose braininess extends to an expertise in physics and an acute ability to help Luther unravel the most advanced criminal minds. The two circle each other dangerously, their chemistry both bizarre and addicting.- Posted Oct 22, 2010
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Terriers hangs rich people out to dry, makes fun of yuppie affectation and seeks as much to position itself on the right side of the class war as it does to amuse us. It succeeds amiably on both fronts. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Questions of innocence are established fairly early in the far more appealing of the legal dramas beginning on Wednesday: The Defenders on CBS. Here the love connection is unambiguously platonic and winning. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The Cape is far more economical in its storytelling, far less weighted by its own mythologies and a much better time. Someone in network land as learned a lesson [from "Heroes"].- Posted Jan 6, 2011
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