metacritic.com: The Closer Season Four

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

74 / 100

80	Newsday Verne Gay You'll be happy to know that every second -- particularly every second with Sedgwick onscreen -- is pretty much a joy.
75	Entertainment Weekly Aubry D'Arminio Brenda and Bill have enough reluctant chemistry and icky tension to make Clarice Starling and Hannibal Lecter proud. [18 Jul 2008, p.56]
70	Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan It's good news that much of Season 4 will focus on Brenda's investigative team and on police department politics.
70	Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen Developments in Brenda's private life also lend the episode some comic relief, which makes "The Closer" a well-balanced prime-time drama that has improved markedly from its earliest episodes.