Robert Bianco, USA Today
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For 549 reviews, this critic has graded:
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57% higher than the average critic
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39% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.9 points lower than other critics.
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Robert Bianco's Scores
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Positive: 317 out of 549
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Mixed: 103 out of 549
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Negative: 129 out of 549
549
tv reviews
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Robert Bianco 50
The interplay among the main characters is by and large unaltered, and for some fans that will be enough. For others, though, what was once a summer pleasure is now a bit less pleasurable. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Unfortunately, the project is too short to do its subject matter justice and too long and clumsy to keep us involved--a problem compounded by Chris O'Donnell's boyishly bland performance as The Company's central agent. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Fun is notably absent from Side Order, which strains to be both quippy and profound. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Simultaneously overdone and underproduced, the movie jerks its way from point to point without bothering to explain the characters' behavior or inject any life into its musical numbers. -
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Robert Bianco 50
This may be a show about young adults, but there are older adults in charge. And we've come to expect better from them. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Unfortunately, when the show wanders off to the personality-deprived supporting characters, it collapses. -
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Robert Bianco 50
It faces the standard problem of all anthologies, which have to interest us in new characters each week. But it also ties those stories to two recurring characters who are better off avoided, leaving you torn between the ones you don't know and the ones you don't like. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Though the debut is weak, it's still possible the series will improve as the setup recedes and new post-pilot writers chime in (including Titus' Jack Kenny). -
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Robert Bianco 50
For the first hour, the sheer silly energy of the contraptions and the appeal of the two stars carry Crusoe along. But you may find yourself tiring of plot holes you can steer a galleon through and the second-rate nature of much of the cast, and wondering how you make a series out of two people trapped on a deserted island. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Though there is great appeal in the idea of a selfish man suddenly seeing beyond himself to the suffering around him, there is also more than a whiff of Rudyard Kipling's "white man's burden" in the way the story is told. -
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Robert Bianco 50
"Mad Men" is the genre's gold standard, and the inevitable thematic comparisons just accentuates Trust Me's flaws, making the show seem even more dispensable. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Templar is done in by being both too late and too long. At two hours it might have worked. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Unfortunately, the new plots continually intrude, dissipating tension and making an already complicated story too convoluted to follow. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Suburbia isn't the worst show you've ever seen. It may not even be the worst show you could watch tonight in this time slot. But it is among the least-memorable. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Rather than balance, what you get from Filth is a gratingly smug superiority that mocks both sides while failing to make any point of its own. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Parks never expends enough energy to even approach funny, but even if it were more amusing, that sour whiff of gratuitous cruelty would still linger. -
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Robert Bianco 50
As games go, this isn't a bad one. But unlike horror movies, the Fear doesn't feel real, and the show is nothing special. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Overly precious and indifferently cast, this latest attempt to adapt John Updike's novel feels recycled and flat on every level. -
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Robert Bianco 50
There's no denying that Spartacus does what it sets out to do fairly well--and in a way that doesn't duplicate anything else now on TV. Were it broadcast free over the air where children might find it, one might blanch, but that's not the case. -
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Robert Bianco 50
It may lack Melrose Place's flashy production values and trashy pedigree, but it makes up for that by being marginally better written, though admittedly, we're not talking about a particularly high bar here. -
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Robert Bianco 50
There are some humorous moments and decent lines. But overall, the joke has such a nasty, frantic edge, it's hard to care which way the punch line lands. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Unfortunately, whenever the show wanders beyond Graham and Nelson to the generally bland characters around them, your mind may wander as well. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Three Rivers tries to work around the failings of its script through quick cuts and colored gels, but they're a vain attempt to build excitement where none exists. -
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Robert Bianco 50
It just doesn't seem the best fit for Grammer. He's playing a character who's as pompous as Frasier but with less justification, less heart, less wit--and less able support. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Scoundrels at least can brag about a good performance from a fine actress, Virginia Madsen, though....It's hard to care about Cheryl's efforts to save her children when the kids are so dull, and hard to care about her marriage when her husband appears to be badly miscast. -
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Robert Bianco 50
If only it felt inspired, rather than like a Desperate Weirdwives rehash of every vampire, werewolf and witch story you've ever heard and every family soap you've seen. -
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Robert Bianco 50
It's TV at its least challenging, but it has an incredibly gorgeous setting, a pre-sold concept, a cushy time slot, a solid supporting cast and a starmaking turn by Caan. -
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Robert Bianco 50
To the extent style points count, Rubicon looks good and boasts a fine cast, including Oscar nominee Miranda Richardson. They work hard, but the more they and their show strain for taut, the more limp the program becomes. And for viewers, that's a very hard bridge to cross. -
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Robert Bianco 50
So what you get from Hellcats is a wildly derivative wish-fulfillment view of college life made to appeal to junior-high girls, most of whom are too young to recognize how many shows and movies Hellcats has appropriated. -
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Robert Bianco 50
Underneath all the excess and that premium-cable drive to be more-clever-and-shocking-than-thou, there is a core of truth in the story of a mother desperate to reconnect with--and actually raise--her son before she dies. Give us that show, and we might be willing to accept the wacky-but-wise neighbor and the tough fat girl with the soft heart. You brought a great actor to TV, Big C. Use her or lose her. -
