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Martha Behind Bars: Season 1
  • Network: CBS
  • Series Premiere Date: Sep 25, 2005
  • Season #: 1
Metascore
42 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 8 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 8
  3. Negative: 2 out of 8
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  1. Variety
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    60
    All told, the movie's a respectable and mostly watchable recounting of this notorious chapter in Stewart's storied career, despite being so stiff and formal that it never really comes alive.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Ray Richmond
    60
    Fortunately, "Bars" doesn't take itself or its subject too terribly seriously, allowing for the material's camp value to seep through.
  3. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Tim Stack
    58
    It comes off feeling cheap and mean. [23 Sep 2005, p.84]
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  4. Detroit Free Press
    Reviewed by: Mike Duffy
    50
    Shepherd scores in a so-so docudrama.
  5. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Tom Shales
    40
    Where the previous movie aspired to be a camp classic, "Martha Behind Bars" takes itself more seriously, and less entertainingly.
  6. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    40
    Viewers who like to snicker at cheesy TV movies will get a kick out of Shepherd's imperious and demanding take on Stewart.
  7. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Matthew Gilbert
    20
    A boring prison-sentence of a silly biopic.
  8. Flak Magazine
    Reviewed by: Bob Cook
    10
    Disappointly uncampy, even on its own terms.
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