Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times
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For 326 reviews, this critic has graded:
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54% higher than the average critic
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44% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2 points lower than other critics.
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Mary McNamara's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 175 out of 326
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Mixed: 115 out of 326
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Negative: 36 out of 326
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tv reviews
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Mary McNamara 30
Lost in all the plot and character contrivance is any sense of the city--a few gumbo and bourbon references are most certainly not enough. -
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Mary McNamara 0
I just wanted everyone, including Jones, to rise up as one and throw the cameras and the whole Anchorwoman concept out of the newsroom and back to whatever airport strip bar provided its genesis. -
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Mary McNamara 30
We don't feel anything because nothing is revealed about Moody except that he is depressed, profane and a writer. (We don't even know whether he is a good writer--all sorts of bad writers get upset about how their movies are made too.) And that, I'm afraid, is not enough. -
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Mary McNamara 30
Lipstick Jungle wrongheadedly wants to have it both ways--to celebrate and explore the lives and loves of women at the top through protagonists who don't have the drive or the depth to make it there. -
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Mary McNamara 30
Watching "Tabatha's Salon Takeover," which is unrated, you can't help but wonder if there shouldn't be a "whip it" show for "whip it" shows--in which an expert would review the tapes and offer advice on how to turn a bad situation around. They could start with this one. -
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Mary McNamara 30
Canterbury's Law is a Frankenstein's monster of a dozen cop/law shows, a pale, lurching version of the flawed and fascinating women who are taking back television like so many modern Cagneys and Laceys. -
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Mary McNamara 30
I'm sure the writers have big plans to examine the hilarious pitfalls everyone encounters after Wolf goes to jail and Cheryl institutes a new "no crime" rule but it's not just difficult to care about what happens next, it's difficult to imagine caring. -
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Mary McNamara 30
There's nothing wrong with a show about lovable losers, but they have to be, you know, lovable. Here, the men seem to be products of their writers' contempt; they're such babies that even their profanity doesn't rise from the potty. -
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Mary McNamara 30
Like so many reboots, The Firm is a waste of precious resources, especially its cast.- Posted Jan 6, 2012
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Mary McNamara 30
Take "Lost," mash it up with "The Prisoner," throw in a little "Saw," over-season with badly written and poorly delivered dialogue, glaze with horror-film lighting, dream-scene camerawork and elevators like you haven't seen since "The Shining," and you've got "Persons Unknown." -
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Mary McNamara 30
The show is pretty darn terrible, derivative and tired, co-starring a monkey (never, ever a good sign) and chockablock with characters we have seen too many times before.- Posted Aug 13, 2012
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Mary McNamara 20
To say Valentine, which premieres at 8 p.m. Sunday, is terrible does not do justice to either the show or the word "terrible." -
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Mary McNamara 20
As a for-profit visual arts experience, Hemlock Grove is terrible in ways that mock the meaning of the word "terrible," with clunky acting, tra-la-la transitions and at least one monster that walks like a bad Frankenstein and appears to be wearing the very same wig/hat we used.- Posted Apr 19, 2013
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Mary McNamara 20
Rogue is pretty terrible, a moody, broody jumble of clichéd characters, pregnant pauses and sex scenes that border on the pornographic.- Posted Apr 3, 2013
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Mary McNamara 30
The Playboy Club is nothing but a tarted-up mob drama; the bunnies may be used as the marketing and milieu but the main narrative is about the men, and no one seems aware of the irony.- Posted Sep 19, 2011
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Mary McNamara 30
If Couric was the best and brightest candidate to replace Oprah, things are not looking good, America.- Posted Sep 10, 2012
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Mary McNamara 30
Fox should send TNT the super fancy bouquet because, once again, "House" never looked so good. -
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Mary McNamara 10
So here it is, a two-part A&E miniseries that manages, despite a cast culled from some of the best shows on TV, to be both overwrought and dull, a veritable Frankenfilm of sci-fi thrillers, built of debris from sources including "Outbreak," "Sphere," "The Omega Man," "The Birds," "The China Syndrome" and, oh, yes, "The Andromeda Strain." -
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Mary McNamara 30
If Mental sounds a lot like "House" or "The Mentalist" or whatever other foreign-born-actor-playing-a-haunted-man drama you can think of, well, it is. Only nowhere near as good. -
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Mary McNamara 30
Poorly conceived, badly written and indifferently acted, The Deep End is a jumble of terrible ideas from start to finish. -
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Mary McNamara 30
Zero Hour, while initially tantalizing (priests, Nazis, Anthony Edwards, an unholy birth, a secret map--I'm in! I'm in!), is more than a little disappointing (flat-footed dialogue, absurd plot machinations, cardboard main characters, ludicrous historical leaps--I'm out! I'm out!).- Posted Feb 13, 2013
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Mary McNamara 30
The show is neither funny nor illuminating. Indeed, if you aren't a bordering-on-psychotically-obsessive Saget fan, there's not much to see except some very nice scenery.- Posted Dec 10, 2010
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Mary McNamara 30
It's just the sheer bone-idle laziness of the writing, which is a dumbed-way-down "Modern Family" crossed with watered-way-down "Two and a Half Men."- Posted Oct 17, 2011
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Mary McNamara 20
Though it is mildly interesting to watch the reality monster consume its own tail for a few minutes, I'd frankly rather spend an hour blotting my lip gloss. -
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Mary McNamara 30
He gets off a few good lines, but even the fan-based studio audience wasn't much impressed, providing an ocean of silence where the laughter should be, which made the television viewing experience actually uncomfortable at times.- Posted Jun 28, 2012
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Mary McNamara 30
The Storm is almost but not quite bad enough to be fun. Although Treat Williams is clearly having a great time, those of us in the audience are left feeling damp and more than a bit moldy. -
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Mary McNamara 10
Feldman has created a quartet of rich guys so insufferable, self-centered and whiny that they make the men of feminist masterwork "The Golden Notebook," or even "The Nanny Diaries," look positively heroic. -
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Mary McNamara 30
It is such an utterly cynical experiment, troublesome on so many levels (there are children involved, watching adults cry because their friends have "banished" them) and no matter how often people say "it's just a game," even without a big chunk of change on the line, family competitions are rarely bloodless. -
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Mary McNamara 20
Sandra Brown's Ricochet, is just awful, despite its fine literary pedigree and a cast that includes John Corbett, Gary Cole and Julie Benz.- Posted Nov 29, 2011
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