All Critics articles – Page 163

  • Rita Simons: My Daughter, Deafness and Me
    Comment

    21 March '12

    2012-03-21T11:16:00Z

    “It was, essentially, a face-off between acceptance and technological intervention.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • The Little Paris Kitchen
    Comment

    20 March '12

    2012-03-20T12:11:00Z

    “Like so many other cooking programmes, it tried to cram in a bit of forced travelogue.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • How God Made the English
    Comment

    19 March '12

    2012-03-19T11:45:00Z

    “A history of state-propaganda, with a historian’s over-reliance on written sources.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Mary's Bottom Line
    Comment

    16 March '12

    2012-03-16T11:07:00Z

    “This is good telly, not least because of its forthright presenter and its frilly subject matter.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Rights Gone Wrong?
    Comment

    15 March '12

    2012-03-15T11:05:00Z

    “The film had the aroma of a balanced report.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Horizon_Out_of_Control
    Comment

    14 March '12

    2012-03-14T12:08:00Z

    “There has never been a better argument for being unconscious.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • China: Triumph and Turmoil
    Comment

    13 Mar '12

    2012-03-13T11:56:00Z

    “The content is fascinating and timely but the delivery is infuriating.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • THE LOVE MACHINE
    Comment

    12 Mar '12

    2012-03-12T10:37:00Z

    “Deeply shallow, humiliating, sometimes even cruel, and based on absolutely nothing at all but looks. I think I like it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • white_heat
    Comment

    9 March '12

    2012-03-09T11:40:00Z

    “If you’re in the market for a nostalgic soap it should do the trick.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • WONDERLAND: GRANNY’S MOVING IN
    Comment

    8 Mar '12

    2012-03-08T12:04:00Z

    “This funny-sad, honest, necessarily invasive film was Paddy Wivell’s second admirable Wonderland documentary in eight days.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • dirk_gently
    Comment

    6 March '12

    2012-03-06T10:19:00Z

    “An entertaining romp, which I fear might fall between rocks.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Orbit
    Comment

    5 Mar' 12

    2012-03-05T10:08:00Z

    “The approach here is to promise to tell us something fascinating before cutting to something utterly unrelated.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • make_bradford_british
    Comment

    2 March '12

    2012-03-02T10:43:00Z

    “The film showed how even a small degree of racial prejudice can cause huge distress.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • two_jews_on_a_cruise
    Comment

    1 Mar '12

    2012-03-01T10:31:00Z

    “A smashing film about nothing more than one couple’s marriage, and nothing less either.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Horizon: The Truth About Exercise
    Comment

    29 Feb '12

    2012-02-29T10:49:00Z

    “It was pacey, strikingly filmed and good-humoured”. Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Empire
    Comment

    28 Feb '12

    2012-02-28T11:27:00Z

    “An authored documentary should have something to say and Paxman’s did.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Comment

    27 Feb '12

    2012-02-27T15:06:00Z

    “The remade Upstairs Downstairs is never going to be capable of carrying the weight Thomas seems determined to place on it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • prisoners_wives
    Comment

    22 Feb '12

    2012-02-22T10:30:00Z

    “Naff, operatic and entirely guessable in one way but believable and entirely watchable in many others.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • My Social Network Stalker
    Comment

    21 Feb '12

    2012-02-21T09:56:00Z

    “It compounded her exposure unnecessarily.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Homeland
    Comment

    20 Feb '12

    2012-02-20T10:08:00Z

    “It is sophisticated television, but easy to engage with.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.