All Critics articles – Page 3
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CriticsThe Jury: 14 And On Trial For Murder; Turning Point: Generation 9/11; Furious
“Gripping, and the twists in the story were well-paced”
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CriticsTea with Judi Dench; Vigil
“A nice cup of tea and a sit-down can be just as effective a way of getting someone to open up”
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CriticsMeet the Owens; Fightland
“Look at it as a cypher, one that requires reading between the lines, and it becomes as juicy as prime Le Carré”
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CriticsThe Murder Detective; Bookish
“The programme is made with care and skill, but it is a bleak situation in which not much can happen and few insightful things can be said”
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CriticsRevival; Popmaster
“For all its lightness and speed, and its cleaving to well-tested tropes, it contains moments of real poignancy”
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CriticsThe Terror: Devil in Silver
“Devil In Silver is satisfyingly unsettling with grotesque imagery that burrows under the skin and an atmosphere of curdled dread”
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CriticsLudwig; Lion
“The script is cracking, David Mitchell is great, and the supporting performances are faultless”
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CriticsFreefall: A Reckoning for Boeing; Fake or Fortune? What Happened Next; Professor T
“You’ll struggle to find many movie scenes more nightmarish than Freefall’s reconstruction of the incident when a door plug blew out mid-flight”
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CriticsThe Great ADHD Myth?; Race Against the Tide
“This is a documentary that will incense and offend some of its viewers, and its scepticism regarding ADHD is clear from the outset”
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CriticsBuried With Michael Sheen; Lanterns
“This is an excellent two-parter and Sheen is a passionate activist who is clearly fully invested in this issue for the long haul”
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CriticsThe Schoolgirl Terrorist?; A House Through Time
“You feel like you have sat through a nightmare”
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CriticsMy Brilliant Career; Murder Trial: Death of a Dog Walker; The Spy Next Door: The Anna Chapman Story
“A billabong in a bit of a desert of a week for new telly”
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CriticsReacher; Joe And David’s Magical Sitcom Tour; Savage Mountain
“Maybe it’s the heat, but this feels like the kind of unchallenging drama these sweltering times demand”
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CriticsLong Lost Family: Born Without Trace; Mourinho; Million Dollar Nannies
“It never loses its capacity to astound and move us”
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CriticsThe Chosen in the Wild with Bear Grylls; Elvis, The Colonel And The Mob
“This series is really rather good, more gently paced, thoughtful and set amid truly spectacular scenery”
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CriticsPossession; Alley Cats
“It is a potent conjuring of the pervasive, enduring evils and toxicities of colonialism”
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CriticsBig Chicken: A Fast Food Conspiracy; Sterling Point
“As Clarkson’s Farm shows, the streamers are just as capable of making valuable public service films as the BBC or Channel 4”
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CriticsCelebrity Hunted
“If the people in charge of our national safety and security can be outwitted by Joe Pasquale, we are all in much worse shape than we ever suspected”