Anger Management
FX | Release Date: June 28, 2012
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
16
Negative:
13
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJun 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is really just a slightly more content-dangerous network sitcom. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian LowryJun 15, 2012
Season 1 Review: This is, quite simply, a Frankencom, stitched together from pieces of other comedies. To their credit, Sheen, the talented cast and seasoned writers know how to make it all look slick and polished. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: They're [the initial episodes of Anger Management are] somewhat more amusing than expected. Read full review
58
NewsdayVerne GayJun 25, 2012
Season 1 Review: Not great comedy, but hopefully the beginning of long overdue recovery process for a talented, troubled actor. Read full review
50
Denver PostJoanne OstrowJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is a perfectly acceptable, standard-issue sitcom. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldGlenn GarvinJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is kind of a mirror image of Sheen: scabrously, outrageously funny at times and monotonously one-note at others. Read full review
50
TimeJames PoniewozikJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: It's sometimes broadly funny and sometimes broadly bad. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is at heart a simple, old-fashioned sitcom, with raucous recorded laughter and predictable one-liners. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeSarah RodmanJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: If the series was actually a disaster, that might at least be captivating, but as is, Anger Management is just an average sitcom with a few good laugh lines here and there that could star any middle-age actor Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesLori RacklJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is a so-so sitcom peppered with equal parts funny lines and groaners. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesRobert LloydJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: It is not a train wreck; it's just a train--chugging along from A to B, carrying the people, delivering the freight. Read full review
50
HitfixAlan SepinwallJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Anger Management is Charlie Sheen doing what Charlie Sheen does-- on-screen. It's not artful, it's not elegant. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid WiegandJun 26, 2012
Season 1 Review: This is all fairly predictable stuff and makes for a show that you'd watch because of the cast but would never put in the top tier of TV shows or talk about the next day at the office. Read full review
40
Zap2it (Inside the Box)Rick PorterJun 28, 2012
Season 1 Review: Now that finished episodes are out there, we can tell you that it's not great. Read full review
40
Washington PostHank StueverJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Nothing in Anger Management is all bad, but not much of it is better than half-good. Read full review
40
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenJun 27, 2012
Season 1 Review: Sheen's obvious, minimally funny new sitcom. Read full review
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