Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times
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For 381 reviews, this critic has graded:
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56% higher than the average critic
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6% same as the average critic
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38% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 0.7 points lower than other critics.
(0-100 point scale)
Robert Lloyd's Scores
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| Average review score: | 63 |
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 201 out of 381
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Mixed: 161 out of 381
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Negative: 19 out of 381
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tv reviews
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Robert Lloyd 70
Without bringing anything radically new to the annals of sitcomedy, Louis-Dreyfus makes Christine feel fresh and real. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
There is something satisfying about watching difficult things performed well, especially when the point is to make it look easy, and especially when the performer is a person who might reasonably be expected to fail. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
The show is exceptionally well made from top to bottom and pulls you in and pulls you along, owing not least to a host of terrific performances. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
I was often moved by the dedication and heart on display. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
The personal circus, while given much play, remains secondary to the cooking contest. And as usual, the crop of contestants is claimed to be the most talented yet, and they do seem well-credentialed (James Beard nominees, Michelin-star-winner), competitive and more than usually tattooed. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
If anything is liable to make "Smith" above the well-made caper show it already is, it's what might be done with the relationship between Liotta and Madsen. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
It's funny, but it doesn't go for big laughs so much as a mood of whimsical parody. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
Without making any great claims for the show's depth, I do sense a desire behind the sensation and soap to investigate something significant, if deceptively simple: how life changes in a moment. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
"Robin Hood" boasts most of the usual problems with low-budget epics.... But the show has wit and energy. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
Whether all, or indeed any, of the subjects here are actually "iconoclasts" is debatable -- "independent" is more like it -- but the title is meant to signal that this is something hipper and smarter and less conventionally angled than a Barbara Walters special and, at least on the basis of the two episodes available for review, it is. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
With a little tweaking, the series just as easily could be set in some large corporation, or on a college campus, and engage most of the same interpersonal issues — what women do for men and for one another. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
You could resist it, really, as you should be able to resist all television, unless you have been completely assimilated into the matrix. But you'd be missing some sparky fun. Submit. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
The plots are a little obvious--you can usually stay a jump or two ahead of the revelations--but the actors keep you well distracted. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
The new series, to judge by the two opening hours, is better balanced and plays more to the players' strengths. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
It's all elevated by looking really beautiful (though not -- and this is the crucial difference -- stylish). The pictures fill in the blanks, and even as Skins strains credibility, it achieves moments of poetry. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
What makes the show worth watching are some old-fashioned character relationships; no single performance tears up the place, but together they make something interesting. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
It is loud and manipulative and ugly to behold, but it isn't dull. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
Gunn is best when showing us what he knows, reacting critically to the thing in front of him rather than speaking lines meant to jog the narrative or jack up the drama. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
The closer you are to living with an addict or an addiction, the more essential you'll find this viewing, obviously, but the less personally involved will still find much of scientific and human interest. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
The show's attitudinal mix of the jaded and amazed, the shocked and amused, is supported by the production itself. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
The production itself is sunny and conducive to a good mood. Coughlan wears well, as does Jason Priestley in the role of the fiancé she puts on hold. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
While it's generally entertaining, there are times when it seems too obviously invented. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
Breaking Bad is as good as a show on this subject could possibly get, but the subject has its drawbacks. I like it, I admire it, but I can't say I enjoy it. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
It's in that "perhaps" and "possibly" that Ashes to Ashes finds a way forward, and although it's not as good as the original, it pushes many of the same buttons and sews on a few new ones. It's quite enjoyable. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
Branagh plays up the dark side of this town-in-the-country pastoral--partly by turning exposition into sometimes violent action, partly by trimming the banter--to deepen the romance. (He likes a pratfall, though.) Mostly it works. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
Generation Kill tends to play as a series of discrete events. I suppose an argument might be made that this mirrors the way that the constant threat of extinction, and subject always to a sudden change in (rarely explained) orders, makes one live in the moment. I don't think that was what the producers intended, but it works well enough for watching it. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
It is, basically, good-looking fun, and if I say that much of this might have been written by a 12-year-old, you must understand that I mean that as a good thing. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
The Goode Family, which is nicely acted and well animated, works best when the cultural potshots give way to the more basic human needs of its characters. -
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Robert Lloyd 70
To be sure, this is the sort of engineered reality in which things mostly happen because someone is there to film them, and not the other way around. But that it is only a partial, edited view of its star--she has, for one thing, a husband, artist-provocateur Al Ridenour, who is neither seen nor heard--doesn't mean that real thoughts and feelings don't come through. It's best when they do. -
