America's Next Top Model
The CW | UPN | VH1 | Release Date: May 27, 2003
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Entertainment WeeklyBruce FrettsJun 14, 2013
Season 1 Review: 'Model' has been tops in quality among the summer's post-'American Idol' talent shows because it requires no actual talent. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyTim StackFeb 22, 2011
Season 16 Review: Best moment: a runway walk with the contestants strutting inside inflatable balls. Please do make up your own joke about that. Read full review
83
Entertainment WeeklyTim Stack
Season 13 Review: Luckily, kooky personalities can still be found in small packages. Read full review
80
SalonHeather HavrileskyJul 18, 2013
Season 1 Review: Although Banks has a bad habit of tooting her own horn endlessly while the cameras roll, she may be justified in doing so, since, from the opening graphics to the hip-hop soundtrack, her show has been undeniably imaginative and engrossing. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyHillary BusisAug 15, 2014
Season 21 Review: It may not convert nonbelievers, but current and former fans will have plenty to smize about. [22/29 Aug 2014, p.102]
75
People WeeklyTom GliattoFeb 18, 2011
Season 16 Review: The show, now in cycle 16, moves with a brisker confidence, and that's better. [28 Feb 2011, p.43]
75
Chicago Sun-TimesPaige Wiser
Season 13 Review: It's hard to justify watching a 13th cycle of this, and it would be wrong to come out and recommend it. Instead, I'll go with the latest catchphrase from the Jays, who are masters of damning with faint praise: "I'm not mad at it." Read full review
75
New York PostLinda Stasi
Season 13 Review: Weirdly enough, every one of tonight's wannabe photos looks better than any photo of any of those pretty-but-average giantesses who "cycled" through Tyra Land before.... The most interesting women are the most trouble, of course. Read full review
70
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJul 18, 2013
Season 1 Review: A pleasant surprise. [26 Jun 2003]
70
Boston GlobeJoanna Weiss
Season 13 Review: Rest assured, the show itself hasn’t changed. Producers know better than to violate certain television principles, and what makes this contest work is what always has: that hostess Tyra Banks is one fabulous brand of crazy. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczAug 27, 2012
Season 19 Review: It's one part silly manufactured reality drama and one part Kenneth Anger fantasia, all ruled by a Tyra-nnical Queen of Hearts. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesPhil RosenthalJul 18, 2013
Season 1 Review: Every part of this ... reality series ... has been copied, borrowed or just plain stolen from somewhere else. [20 May 2003]
60
Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarlandJul 18, 2013
Season 1 Review: There's certainly entertainment value in watching Tyra Banks acting as both boot camp sergeant and self-promoting mannequin. [10 Jun 2003]
60
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Season 13 Review: Top Model runs smoothly enough so it doesn't need two hours, which means we spend too much time watching the contestants look at pictures of Tyra Banks on the wall of the house where they're staying. Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 13 Review: As Cycle 13 of America's Next Top Model gets under way, some of the stories seem sobbier than ever, though the young women telling them are shorter than usual. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsDavid BianculliJul 18, 2013
Season 1 Review: By looking less repugnant than the others, it comes off looking almost attractive. [30 Jun 2003]
50
People WeeklyTerry KelleherJun 28, 2013
Season 1 Review: Average. Read full review
38
People WeeklyTerry KelleherJun 28, 2013
Season 4 Review: I commend Banks for keeping up her interest level, but it gets ever harder to buy into the phony melodrama of redemption and suffering. Read full review
38
People WeeklyTerry KelleherJun 28, 2013
Season 2 Review: It wouldn't be a crime if the contestants were consciously showing their dramatic side, but there ought to be a law against some tricks of the reality trade. Read full review
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