Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe
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For 619 reviews, this critic has graded:
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43% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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54% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 7.8 points lower than other critics.
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Matthew Gilbert's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 264 out of 619
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Mixed: 217 out of 619
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Negative: 138 out of 619
619
tv reviews
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Matthew Gilbert 80
The feverish action is as tantalizing as ever, and so is the script. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
The FX drama returns for its fifth season tonight at 10, after a 19-month absence, and it returns to its former glory after an unfortunate fourth-season slump. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
''Big Love,"... is layered enough to do what HBO's ''The Sopranos" and ''Six Feet Under" have done so well: make atypical heroes knowable and universal. It pulls us into its parallel moral universe, rather than keep us standing outside in judgment. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
"The Boondocks" takes on racism the way ''All in the Family" did, by sending up ignorance and extremism rather than moralizing about them. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
An eerie -- and excellent -- new series that makes ''24" look more than ever like a broadly drawn comic strip. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
The action is intense in "Sleeper Cell," and each episode includes at least one stunning moment of violence or betrayal. But character depth isn't sacrificed to keep the pace moving, and there are valuable calms between the storms. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
If the show can stay as gripping as its premiere... it will be a welcome new prime-time puzzle. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Like ''Lost"... the mystery is provocatively open-ended and, assuming the writing continues to be good, absorbing. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
The nonfictional veneer feels authentic, and so does Lilley's talent. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Like ''Friends," this is not a big-themed series so much as a bunch of little character jokes and relationship confusions getting batted around by an able cast. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
If Rock and co-creator Ali LeRoi can continue to bring depth to the characters without succumbing to cliche or sentiment, they will be on a promising path. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
One of Colbert's strengths has always been wordplay, which is in full force on ''The Colbert Report" and gives the show an added level of wit. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
The best of a recent group of heist dramas, including NBC's "Heist" and FX's "Thief." -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Berg has done a fine job of lifting his series above familiar teen melodrama and making it into a group portrait of a town. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
"Studio 60" is one of the best new dramas of the season, assuming you aren't Sorkin-phobic, and with some tweaking it could be the very best. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Tonight's premiere isn't one of the series' most cleverly wrought scripts; it's more of a welcome-back party than a gem. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
When you watch the show, which returns for season two tonight at 10, you'll find a legal thriller that's trashier and more fun than you might have expected. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
The ABC show... is one of the pleasures of the new season, although it may strike some viewers as too conceptually loose to love. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
To embrace "Knights," you have to have a taste for the kind of comedy that teases because it loves. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Based on the pilot, [the] mystery promises to be surprising, psychological, and addictive. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Dexter enters season 3 on Sunday at 9 p.m. with an increasing--and pleasing--urge to make us like the curious man-child at its center. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Thankfully, this season Dexter continues to play with our moral bearings, which is the show’s best quality. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
You'll love "The Sarah Silverman Program," but only if, like me, you have a healthy appetite for sick comedy. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Izzard is a great surprise in FX's "The Riches," and just one of this fascinating new series' unexpectedly soulful pleasures. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Tonally, "Private Practice" has not found its sweet spot. Dirty Sexy Money, on the other hand, has. The soap opera fully owns its soapiness. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
British actress Lena Headey makes Sarah into the heart and soul of this series. Without Headey and her maternal magnetism, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles would probably deteriorate into a nonstop series of effects-laden fight scenes that's as cold and grim as NBC's "Bionic Woman" remake. -
