Glenn Garvin, Miami Herald
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For 381 reviews, this critic has graded:
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52% higher than the average critic
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47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 9.7 points lower than other critics.
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Glenn Garvin's Scores
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Positive: 183 out of 381
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Mixed: 80 out of 381
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Negative: 118 out of 381
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Glenn Garvin 40
The CW, having exhausted every bit of its creative energy on The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll, is now simply remaking Fox's old prime-time soap lineup one by one. And the garden apartment complex at No. 4616, though filled with a new collection of 20-something drama queens, is the same vortex of hyperkinetic hormones, ambition and criminality that it always was. -
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Glenn Garvin 40
This is sporadically funny, but Tim is too slight -- the back-to-back episodes are only 10 to 12 minutes long -- and relies way too much on the supposed shock value of cartoon characters uttering four-letter words to be consistently entertaining. -
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Glenn Garvin 80
Intelligent and entertaining reimaginations of stupefyingly bad pieces of 1970s sci-fi hackwork. -
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Glenn Garvin 30
Rigidly formulaic drama is almost always a bad idea, and in this case it's, well, criminal. Neither Maura Tierney as the prosecutor nor Rob Morrow as the defense attorney get enough screen time to develop their characters past the cardboard stage. -
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Glenn Garvin 30
As drama, Memphis Beat is a dreary failure, a formulaic cop show distinguished only by its poor execution. -
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Glenn Garvin 50
Freddie is a series of collisions -- between generations, sexes, ethnicities and perhaps most of all between youthful Latin macho and imperious Latin matriarchy in the struggle to rule the house. -
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Glenn Garvin 70
As a reality show, Miracle Workers is unique: It is neither Machiavellian like Survivor, nor messianic, like Three Wishes, nor grotesque, like Fear Factor. It's as serious as life and death. -
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Glenn Garvin 60
The show is kind of amusing, at least in a summer-TV sort of way.- Posted Jun 1, 2011
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Glenn Garvin 80
Watching her construct a self from a handful of jagged fragments is a seductive pleasure.- Posted Mar 29, 2011
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Glenn Garvin 40
Charmless and predictable, Scoundrels seems like a tepid rehash of The Riches, a lively and thoughtful FX show about a family of gypsy thieves trying to go straight that was done in by the 2008 television strike. -
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Glenn Garvin 70
Cupid, like most romantic comedies, can be sappy, sloppy and schemingly manipulative. But the bright writing (no surprise to anyone who watched Thomas' snappy teen-detective drama "Veronica Mars") and affecting performances by Cannavale and Paulson make being manipulated seem a guilty pleasure in this case. -
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Glenn Garvin 80
The sordid ugliness that festers inside Magic City's voluptuously beautiful wrappings makes irresistible television.- Posted Apr 2, 2012
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Glenn Garvin 60
Secret Circle is competently performed and produced and liable to entertain anybody not old enough to remember Alyssa Milano and Shannen Doherty doing pretty much the same stuff in Charmed back in the 20th-century day.- Posted Sep 15, 2011
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Glenn Garvin 30
Nonlinear storytelling, with so many flashbacks and flash-forwards and dream sequences that pretty soon you can't even remember the last time you saw a naked chick bobbing around the cabin. My advice: Rent Barbarella instead. -
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Glenn Garvin 10
A purported sitcom, it draws no laughs... but does manage the impressive achievement of making Stockard Channing and Henry Winkler, playing Gorham's parents, thoroughly unlikable. -
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Glenn Garvin 50
As funny as 1600 Penn can be, after a while the laughs grow fewer and further between. And the misfires are more frequent and painful.- Posted Dec 17, 2012
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Glenn Garvin 80
The show shrewdly offers more than a monster of the week, with some absorbing subplots that continue from week to week.- Posted Oct 27, 2011
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Glenn Garvin 40
A little old-fashioned police brutality may seem downright appealing compared to the pseudointellectual runamok of CBS' cop drama Eleventh Hour, in which British actor Rufus Sewell plays a scientist who has regrettably turned his genius to fighting crime -
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Glenn Garvin 70
Watching Crystal fire off demands to Ben while working out on a treadmill wearing high heels and a business suit is wondrously, bizarrely funny. If Mr. Sunshine can relocate moments like that from the show's periphery to its center, it may stick around for a while.- Posted Feb 9, 2011
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Glenn Garvin 80
Welcome to the tawdry, tantalizing and altogether terrific world of Gossip Girl. -
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Glenn Garvin 60
The result is compulsively watchable pulp, provided you have a high threshold for decapitations and copulations, sometimes simultaneous. -
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Glenn Garvin 70
The testosterone-infused interplay as they taunt each other over career potholes, curdled marriages and sexual depravities and deprivations is scathing and hilarious, though an astonishing percentage of it cannot even be alluded to here. -
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Glenn Garvin 50
What would otherwise be a tedious collection of working-mom and lawyer-show clichés is saved by an excellent cast. -
