All Critics articles – Page 110
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CriticsTV Critics: The Job Interview; Child Genius; Trainspotting Live; My Worst Job
“It looks set fair to be as compelling, human and humane a series as that other fixed-rig fandango, First Dates. Put it on your shortlist.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Exodus; Red Rock; The Secret Life of Children’s Books
“This is ambitious, necessary, and devastating documentary-making.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Celebrity First Dates; The Musketeers; Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud
“There was the unmistakable sound of a barrel being scraped.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Matron, Medicine and Me; What Britain Buys; It's Not Me, It's You
“It feels like television has brought its games in on the last day of term whenever Miriam’s around.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Boy Meets Girl; Britain’s Lost Waterlands; Versailles
“It is the most old-fashioned comedy on television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Life Stripped Bare; B is for Book
“Life Stripped Bare was an hour of utter nonsense.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Brief Encounters; Forces of Nature; The Rich Kids of Instagram
“It was as if Victoria Wood had rewritten The Full Monty.”
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CriticsTV Critics: China’s Forgotten Emperor; Top Gear; Catchphrase
“The film, despite its locations, lacked visual majesty. I lay back and thought of Theresa May.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ramsay's Hotel Hell; Freud: Genius of the Modern World
“The episode had the sort of in-the-bones gloom you normally only find in Russian novels”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Women Who Kill Lions; Britain's Favourite Dogs; All The Way
“The film ended abruptly and provided few answers. It would have been fascinating to see what Louis Theroux would have done with the subject”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Living and the Dead; Life Inside Jail: Hell On Earth; Inside Porton Down; Taskmaster
“This is genuinely creepy, genuinely clever, without trying to rewrite the rules”
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CriticsTV Critics: Superfoods: The Real Story; Wentworth Prison; Handmade: By Royal Appointment; Great British Sewing Bee
“The programme never offered up a working definition of the term ‘superfood’”
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CriticsTV Critics: Oscar Pistorius: The Interview; Messages Home: Lost Films of the British Army; Sacrifice
“I expected more from the man who exposed Jimmy Savile”
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CriticsTV Critics: Frat Boys; What Britain Buys; Natural World; Genius of the Modern World
“Chris Taylor’s film was rivetingly revealing. It made the notorious Bullingdon Club seem not that bad by comparison.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Celebrity MasterChef; Storyville; The £100K House
“This new series got off to an absurdly strong start.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Mr v Mrs; The Border; The Secret Life of a Bus Garage; Britain’s Most Spectacular Backyard Builds
“A fascinating insight into a world you would normally only ever see from the inside, if it were happening to you.”
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TV Critics: Game of Thrones; The Secret Life of Kittens; The Great British Sewing Bee
“The battle scene was a tour-de-force of grimness, brilliantly shot and surreally edited.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Gogglesprogs; Penelope Keith: at Her Majesty's Service; City In The Sky; The Challenge
“They’re not just funny; they’re fearless, wise, honest and untainted by prejudice. Excellent critics sometimes, too.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Marx: Genius of the Modern World; This World: The New Gypsy Kings
“This film was stymied by too restrictive a focus on giving a blow-by-blow account of a life, rather than on the intellectual achievement for which it is celebrated.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Koko; Exposure; Rescue Dog To Superdog
“A portrait of two highly intelligent beings – one human, one gorilla – caught forever between unbridgeable worlds. It was hard to know whom to feel most sorry for.”