Verne Gay, Newsday
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For 559 reviews, this critic has graded:
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65% higher than the average critic
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3% same as the average critic
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32% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 4 points higher than other critics.
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Verne Gay's Scores
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 352 out of 559
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Mixed: 149 out of 559
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Negative: 58 out of 559
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Verne Gay 70
Yes, there have been some valid questions about TV's recent embrace of the serial. (Too many? Will people stay tuned?) "Kidnapped" feels so fresh that viewers won't even care. -
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Verne Gay 70
"Raines" is both thoroughly conventional and thoroughly unconventional; in fact, it often revels in its conventionality. -
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Verne Gay 70
A show that is so achingly familiar - in content, tone, stars, everything - that it's actually funny. -
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Verne Gay 70
"The Nine" may well be the best of the crop - smart, clever and especially wise to the ways of this genre - but the challenge remains the same. This is work - admittedly often pleasurable work, but come 10 p.m. next Wednesday, we've got to do it all over again. -
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Verne Gay 70
Gossip Girl actually isn't bad by the standards of the medium--with "The Hills" pretty much being the standard--and it's even surprisingly competent. -
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Verne Gay 70
A breath of cold, bracing and - bless it - fresh air. Eisner's fable is dark, almost impenetrably so, though skillfully rendered. Best of all, nothing here has ever been performed on reality TV, the best I can tell. -
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Verne Gay 67
Like opening a time capsule. The boys remain the same. At least their snark has been updated for contemporary targets.- Posted Oct 26, 2011
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Verne Gay 67
Michael is a clinically interesting personality type who is profoundly unempathetic, until such times as he is very empathetic. The wonderful creative trick of The Office is knowing exactly the right moment to humanize Michael. -
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Verne Gay 67
Interesting detours, and a worthy show--but at times just a smidgen too self-righteous and melodramatic. -
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Verne Gay 67
Hilarious implausibility, overheated dialogue and enough soap to do several loads of laundry are part of its appeal. -
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Verne Gay 67
Garcia is a major-league cutie and sunny on-screen presence without being cloying. But enough with the filthy-rich-kid dramedies! -
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Verne Gay 67
Tonight's premiere may seem like ridiculous twaddle, and it may feel like a major downer (and kinda sloooow), too, but maybe that's just Bruckheimer playing with our heads. In fact, Hour deserves a second look (next week is definitely better). -
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Verne Gay 67
I do know something about TV shows, and this one works best when Anne Slowey is on camera (which is not nearly enough) and the program focuses on clothing - that great, exasperating, endlessly complicated art form known as "fashion." -
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Verne Gay 67
Competent spinoff, but the formula tends to wear like a straitjacket on Whitaker.- Posted Feb 15, 2011
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Verne Gay 67
It's all vaguely familiar and spirited enough to look like shiny summer fare. Just don't scratch the surface. -
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Verne Gay 67
I laughed. Not often, or perhaps not often enough, but there was also enough McFarlane-esque gross-out sophomoric tomfoolery to keep even me reasonably entertained for a half-hour. Plus, good ol' likable Cleveland works well as a leading man. -
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Verne Gay 67
Unfortunately, one show's a classic, the other a near knockoff. Nevertheless, Poehler's still got plenty of appeal here. -
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Verne Gay 67
There's so much to like here. Now, all P&R has to do is become consistently likable. -
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Verne Gay 67
The pilot is flawed (most pilots are), not particularly funny and even--bizarrely--deploys two bland jokes from the "Weeds" premiere at 10 (did the writers trade notes?). But Falco is good, proving that she can transcend Carmela Soprano. -
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Verne Gay 67
The Narrative knot is further jumbled by all the head games Two plays on him and everyone else. Six is on shifting sand, and so, too, will you be. -
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Verne Gay 67
Hot in Cleveland is a by-the-numbers sitcom with a couple of laughs, an inoffensive premise and four seasoned actresses who make the material much better than it is. -
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Verne Gay 67
It's summer, expectations are low, and you could do a lot worse than this genial, softhearted import. -
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Verne Gay 67
A by-the-book cop show without much bite or heft. But it's got Memphis and Lee. -
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Verne Gay 67
Mostly this show belongs to Harmon, once a key member of the "Law & Order" ensemble. She's likable and intriguing. That salvages an otherwise average cop show. -
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Verne Gay 67
Watch for any length of time and you may--as I did--have the eerie if not unpleasant feeling that you've been teleported to a decent network cop show from the 1970s. -
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Verne Gay 67
Rubicon unfolds at a languid pace, dispensing information at the rate a not-quite-broken kitchen faucet dispenses drops. You want it to speed up. You want some urgency. You want a few more thrills in this thriller. At least this average TV viewer does. -
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Verne Gay 67
Forgive the pun, but this brass needs polishing. The Green/Burgess team is one of TV's best and we hope they'll make this show as sharp and compelling as it should be.- Posted Oct 20, 2010
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Verne Gay 67
Let's say Lone Star has its work cut out for it, and so does Wolk. His portrayal is too nice--too romantic, too good-hearted, too bland--to make Allen interesting, or at least convincing. -
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Verne Gay 67
The Tenth Inning is dutiful, sober and thoughtful. No spitballs are thrown. No banned substances have been added to bloat it up to obscene, grotesque proportions. What is missing in at least tonight's installment is surprise, or the pleasant shock of learning something brand new or unexpected. -
