Matt Roush, TV Guide
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For 597 reviews, this critic has graded:
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46% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 1.6 points lower than other critics.
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Matt Roush's Scores
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Positive: 339 out of 597
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Mixed: 160 out of 597
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Negative: 98 out of 597
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Matt Roush 40
An odd tonal mix with uneven casting that never quite produces the intended magic, it feels like a misfire to me. -
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Matt Roush 40
This reimagined version, which feels a bit old hat in a post-Matrix fantasy landscape, is more leaden, pretentious and solemn, a tone embodied by Caviezel’s brooding Six, who’s more dour than dashing. -
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Matt Roush 40
Spartacus is derivative as entertainment and primitively pandering as a diverting spectacle of campy historical fiction. -
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Matt Roush 40
The supporting cast is diverse, but uniformly bland. Three Rivers isn’t as laughably awful as NBC’s "Mercy," but it’s possibly more forgettable. -
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Matt Roush 40
Hank does fill a network void where family-friendly comedy is concerned, but Grammer is just going through the paces here. And I’m not sure a void actually deserves another void. -
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Matt Roush 40
The animation is primitive, and so is the straining-to-be-hip writing in this deadpan sitcom. -
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Matt Roush 40
There's nothing about Haven that isn't derivative at best and dispiriting at worst. -
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Matt Roush 40
The problem is that Scoundrels is never as funny as it thinks it is. -
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Matt Roush 40
Unclear and, at first glance, very uneven, but it's still a lot more inviting than ABC's DOA "Happy Town." -
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Matt Roush 40
The only moment anyone’s likely to remember from the colossal dud of The Jay Leno Show's opening night--which felt more like an off night of the old Tonight Show--was a moment where no joke was cracked, indeed where no word was spoken. -
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Matt Roush 40
There's not much there here, as Chase engages in violent cat-and-mouse pursuits between a team of U.S. Marshals (led by Giddish's Annie "Boots" Frost) and psycho criminals on the lam. -
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Matt Roush 40
When Steve and Emmy reconnect in the mansion where they grew up, sparks are meant to fly. But the chemistry is lacking, maybe because the creators are too busy loading up so many elements of the bizarre around them. -
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Matt Roush 40
There's no surprise to this, just a sense of resignation that such a hokey climax is the way these shows are supposed to work. Which doesn't make V a terrible show, just a terribly ordinary one.- Posted Jan 4, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
This isn't a catastrophe, mind you. It's not Knight Rider-Bionic Woman awful. It's merely forgettable. Which is just sad.- Posted Jan 7, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
The conditions at the clinic and surrounding villages are unnervingly primitive, which adds to the drama and the stakes of many of these emergency triage cases. But it's the painfully earnest dialogue that could really make you ill.- Posted Jan 12, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
Mr. Sunshine never really comes into focus. I'm regarding this as a work in progress, and am hoping it finds its way in weeks to come the way Cougar Town quickly did.- Posted Feb 9, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
What in the original incarnation was shockingly cheeky, in its graphic and profane depiction of teens indulging in sex-and-drug debauchery, has been neutered and tamed in a remake that is unconvincing, amateurishly produced and very poorly acted.- Posted Jan 17, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
This isn't a terrible show, because that might make it memorable. Instead, it falls into that category of being fairly clever without really being funny or all that amusing.- Posted Apr 6, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
It's ploddingly earnest when it isn't crudely scurrilous....There is some fine acting.- Posted Apr 1, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
You say potato, I say dramatic arsenic. This actors' exercise is what it's like finding yourself trapped in a pretentious, self-important off-Broadway "experience," wishing you'd chosen to go to a movie or stay home with TV instead.- Posted Feb 11, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
This one pushes the zany aspects too hard, trivializing the missions while neglecting such elements as grit, wit and heart.- Posted Apr 1, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
To say Secret Circle isn't spellbinding is an understatement. Originality and surprise are the main ingredients missing from this tepid witches' brew.- Posted Sep 15, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
Your enjoyment of Franklin & Bash may depend on your tolerance for frat-boy antics and smarmy whimsy.- Posted Jun 1, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
An insipid and unconvincing attempt to position bunnies at the forefront of a social and sexual revolution.- Posted Sep 20, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
Some are embracing this as a juicy guilty pleasure, a return to Dynasty times by way of The Count of Monte Cristo. I found it all a bit predictable and thick, like I was choking on Crisco.- Posted Sep 21, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
Saving the least for last, Entourage feels awfully washed-out and washed-up, kind of like Vince Chase's dormant career, as the show counts down to the end.- Posted Jul 22, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
AMC's sprawling but heavy-handed attempt to revive and redefine the Western (a newly hot TV-development trend) is solemn business indeed, with precious little wit or originality.- Posted Nov 4, 2011
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Matt Roush 40
The voyeuristic thrill of watching the unguarded reactions of people--in this case, famous people--to outrageous situations has worked ever since Candid Camera, but I'll admit the only moment that brought me joy in the first episode is when one of Bieber's marks refuses to fall for the set-up, insisting, "Are we on Punk'd?"- Posted Mar 29, 2012
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