Roger Ebert’s review gives it three stars. I guess it doesn’t matter that I watched a bit of Firefly before my review; Ebert is blissfully unaware of most TV shows (a point of pride with him, though it leaves him ill-fit to review Bewitched, Dukes of Hazzard and the like) so you now have your “uninformed Joe” review.
If you want to see a typical Firefly tambourine-beater review, emoting more than Cindy Sheehan watching Beaches, check out the Flick Filosopher.
Rotten Tomatoes gives it, at this moment with 59 reviews in, an 80%. (47 love it, 12 hate it.) A few days ago there were 9 reviews and 3 of them hated it. That means that in two days’ time 41 more critics have chimed in loving it and only 9 more dislike it. I think the rating will keep increasing.
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