Matthew Gilbert, Boston Globe
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For 641 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 7.7 points lower than other critics.
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Matthew Gilbert's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 274 out of 641
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Mixed: 226 out of 641
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Negative: 141 out of 641
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Matthew Gilbert 80
The Wire is a cop drama from top to bottom. It does take a systemic view of the issue, like "Traffic," Steven Soderbergh's drug-trade saga. But it never sacrifices drama and character for lecture. [31 May 2002, p.E14]Posted Apr 29, 2013 -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Why watch The Wire if it's such tough-going--so difficult to follow and then, once followed, so pessimistic? Because it offers the kind of earned understanding that leads to progress. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
The shamelessness of Nip/Tuck returns intact, which is a good thing. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
Like "Lost," it has the potential to grow into a cross-genre drama that reaches beyond cultiness to all kinds of TV viewers. -
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Matthew Gilbert 80
What a treat it is to find a medical show that doesn't turn its talented MDs into bedside saints in order to calm viewers' fears about mechanical HMO factories.- Posted Mar 11, 2013
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Matthew Gilbert 80
So much of the pleasure of Lost is in the way surprise twists arrive completely out of the blue. -
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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. -
