For 886 reviews, this publication has graded:
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On average, this publication grades 4.7 points lower than other critics.
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Little Dorrit is as rich at the margins as at the center with strange, and strangely believable, characters from almost all levels of society, rendered in quick, firm strokes. -
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Alessandra Stanley 90
A worthy and exhilarating new HBO companion to "Curb Your Enthusiasm." -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Reaper is not at all grim; it’s actually quite rewarding. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
There is nothing supernatural behind the mystery, and there is no deep-rooted government conspiracy lurking behind seemingly mundane events. But suspense builds, personalities strengthen and change, and “The Nine” takes on a life of its own. -
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Neil Genzlinger 70
The program has a fair amount of feel-good filler about the bond between the dogs and their handlers, but when it comes to showing these pairs at work, it is blunt and disturbing.- Posted Feb 21, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Both “Bored to Death” and Curb Your Enthusiasm have heroes who are hell-bent on doing the impossible and are doomed to fail. And it’s impossible not to prefer them just as they are. -
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Mike Hale 50
It feels as if the attention that should have gone to the storytelling all went to the atmosphere and the repartee. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Damages borrows heavily from the front page, and that keeps it interesting. -
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Alessandra Stanley 70
"Elizabeth I" was made for television and is not a lavish, big-budget production. Visually, it is no match for the 1998 movie. But what "Elizabeth I" does offer is not insignificant: a richly drawn portrait of a powerful woman who is both ruthless and sentimental, formidable and mercurial, vain and likable. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
It's the Lovings, not Loving v. Virginia, that hold our attention. Their reticence, even under such close camera scrutiny, is intriguing and even charming.- Posted Feb 15, 2012
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Neil Genzlinger 80
The smooth telling of Russo's story juxtaposed against the present day, when gay marriage is sanctioned in some states and gay characters are all over prime-time television, drives home how different the cultural landscape is from the one Russo knew.- Posted Jul 24, 2012
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Mike Hale 60
Despite these quibbles, Children of Earth is still good fun, if not good, exactly. -
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Alessandra Stanley 80
The plot twists of The Hour can at times be puzzling, but the series is never dull.- Posted Aug 16, 2011
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Generation Kill, which has a superb cast and script, provides a searingly intense, clear-eyed look at the first stage of the war, and it is often gripping. But like a beautiful woman who swathes herself in concealing clothes and distracting hats, the series fights its own intrinsic allure. -
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Neil Genzlinger 80
This quietly addictive program isn't really about what goes on inside the Big Apple's single ring. It's about the people, both under the lights and behind them, who make those performances possible.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Neil Genzlinger 80
The advice here is to forget the politics and enjoy the performances and the trip back in time.- Posted Oct 1, 2012
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Ginia Bellafante 80
Though the setting has shifted from New York to Los Angeles, the look and feel of the show are essentially unchanged, with Heidi Klum and her Valkyrie manner still doing the hosting and Tim Gunn continuing to bring an Oxford don’s comportment to his sartorial mentoring. -
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Mike Hale 40
For about an episode and a quarter, it’s very good television. But over the rest of its six-episode first season it resembles nothing so much as a bad indie film, the kind of slow and tepid bummer that used to fill Sundance’s late nights and afternoons when it was a full-time movie channel.- Posted Apr 22, 2013
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Neil Genzlinger 80
Though these people may not resemble any job seekers you know, the portraits feel about as honest as reality TV gets.- Posted Aug 15, 2012
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Alessandra Stanley 80
All the President’s Men Revisited is nonetheless well worth a look, less because it is so well made than because the subject is still so captivating.- Posted Apr 18, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 60
The second season has style and suspense, but it’s harder to keep viewers guessing when the characters are so familiar, and the time-scrambling format is no longer as novel. -
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Mike Hale 70
Season 2 begins on Sunday, and the off-kilter charm is still there, though some strain is beginning to show. -
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Ginia Bellafante 40
If you are not averse to the Dungeons & Dragons aesthetic, the series might be worth the effort. If you are nearly anyone else, you will hunger for HBO to get back to the business of languages for which we already have a dictionary.- Posted Apr 14, 2011
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Neil Genzlinger 70
We have perhaps grown to expect a certain rhythm in these accounts. A mission accomplished amid much bravery and loss. Memories of horror and heroism carried silently for decades. The Ghost Army reminds us that in a conflict as sweeping as the Second World War, not every story fits that template.- Posted May 20, 2013
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Alessandra Stanley 80
Five Days, made by the BBC and HBO, is riveting because it weaves the most familiar milestones of a major homicide investigation--the news conferences, police interrogations and family meltdowns--into a less predictable and intricately layered narrative that averts clichés without diluting the suspense. -
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Ginia Bellafante 80
The most endearing comedy about love to come to television since the Manolos were packed up and put away. -
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Ginia Bellafante 70
We surely didn’t need another filmed version of Austen’s first published novel--not after Ang Lee’s sublime adaptation of “Sense and Sensibility” 13 years ago--but we are content enough to have this one. -
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Critic Score 80
Mr. Brown has bought into something real: our childlike joy in being fooled. -
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Mike Hale 70
As with most programs in the illustrated-lecture format (the lecturer in this case being the narrator, Christopher Plummer), the early material is the best. TCM, bless its soul, spends three of the seven hours just getting from Thomas Edison, Georges Melies and the Lumiere brothers through the silent era, and those first three episodes are a treat.- Posted Dec 9, 2010
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Caryn James 40
That still makes the series more daring than most of what's on television; the problem is, its creators know that and the show's self-satisfaction becomes annoying. The floundering first episode (the only one available for preview) is sometimes smart, sometimes stupid, eventually gooey and, despite its sharp cast, not often entertaining. One of the season's most hyped and anticipated series, The West Wing is by far its biggest disappointment.- Posted Apr 21, 2013
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