All Critics articles – Page 40
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CriticsHow to With John Wilson; Celebrity SAS: Who Dares Wins
“It is highly original and unusual, and when it finds its sweet spot, it is an empathic and lovely celebration of the characters and eccentricities that make life interesting”
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CriticsBloods; Huge Homes with Hugh Dennis; Naked Attraction; Off the Hook; House of Hammer
“Decent comfort TV if…you tune out the boring bits.”
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CriticsSend Nudes; Grand Designs
”It takes the essence of Naked Attraction – entertainment for drunk viewers who tune in to squeal at people’s rude bits – and mashes it up with Embarrassing Bodies and cosmetic surgery makeover shows.”
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CriticsThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power
“This is enormously enjoyable TV, a cinematic feast.”
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CriticsDays That Shook the BBC with David Dimbleby; Rosie Jones’s Trip Hazard
“Dimbleby is at his best, his unwillingness to let a stray remark go unchallenged and ability to get to the heart of the matter undiminished”
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CriticsRidley; The Capture; Suspect; Animal Airlift: Escaping the Taliban
“Dunbar is an entirely safe pair of hands and couldn’t be more perfect as the lead – grizzled, principled, a little unorthodox”
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CriticsCritics: All That Glitters
“Katherine has ditched the political jokes, and kept the innuendos to the odd barbed aside”
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CriticsCritics: The Accused: National Treasures on Trial
“What the film did well was to evoke the Wild West flavour of the time.”
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CriticsThe Rise and Fall of the Marsh Pride; Mo; Running with the Devil
“A tale develops about the malign expansion of humanity and, somewhere in the dusty shadows, about the dead hand of modernity”
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CriticsDisability and Abortion: The Hardest Choice; Marriage; Ben Stokes: Phoenix from the Ashes
“A provocative yet also kind and empathic exploration of the tensions between a woman’s right to choose and our attitudes towards the disabled”
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CriticsHouse of the Dragon; Investigating Diana
“House of the Dragon looks set fair to become the game of political seven-dimensional chess that its predecessor was”
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CriticsBad Sisters; Hotel Custody; A Farm Through Time
“This is a fine addition to the growing collection of stories told unapologetically for, by and about women on mainstream television”
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CriticsCritics: Britain’s Secret War Babies
“A fascinating, moving, saddening slice of history that I’m ashamed to say I didn’t know enough about”
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CriticsThe Billion-Pound Savings Scandal; Better Call Saul; The Box; High Heat
“You could sympathise with the sense of anger and humiliation felt by the amateur investors”
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CriticsRed Rose; Porn King: the Rise and Fall of Ron Jeremy
“Red Rose captured the internet’s dizzying expanse of possibilities along with the astonishing bleakness of its deepest depths”
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CriticsMarriage; A Very British Way of Torture; Afghanistan: Getting Out; The Princess
“Gruellingly honest about the realities of long cohabitation, with its micro-niggles and unaddressed sorrows”
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CriticsFootball Dreams: The Academy; Cosmic Love; Five Days at Memorial; Ambulance
“The episode’s most unexpected achievement? It (almost) made you want to become a Crystal Palace fan.”
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CriticsShetland; Celebrity MasterChef
“Subtle, unshowy but hauntingly powerful and highly atmospheric.”
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CriticsTom Daley: Illegal to Be Me; Cryptocurrency: Has The Bubble Burst?; Secrets Of The Spies
”Daley is the headline act, the gateway to a difficult and often harrowing documentary that shines a light on other people’s stories.”
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CriticsGood Grief; I Just Killed My Dad
“Coles offered well-observed, sometimes funny nuggets of wisdom throughout.”