All Critics articles – Page 45
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CriticsWorlds Collide; Travel Man
“The combination of exhaustive evidence from the inquest with face-to-camera testimony required skilled, sensitive editing”
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CriticsGentleman Jack; The Cane Field Killings
“A gleeful, radical shake-up of period drama that repositions history, sexuality and class with the wink of an eye and poke of a cane”
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CriticsArt That Made Us; Falklands War; Nikki Grahame; Hard Cell
“The idea is excellent and the academics have a great deal of knowledge to impart”
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CriticsJimmy Savile; The Great Home Transformation; Interior Design Masters; The Ultimatum
“A decade on from his death, the story is no less shocking or confounding”
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CriticsEllie Simmonds: A World Without Dwarfism?, Deadline
“Her programme should go a long way towards eroding prejudice and showing viewers how to debate emotive issues with intelligence and compassion”
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CriticsGordon Ramsay’s Future Food Stars; Slow Horses
“Perhaps it’s age or perhaps it was the shock of the pandemic, but this is a kinder, gentler Gordon Ramsay”
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CriticsCritics: Banned! The Mary Whitehouse Story
“An unmalicious documentary that is at pains to tease apart the issues with which she was concerned and intelligently evaluate them”
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CriticsWinning Time; Newark, Newark; Beyond Reasonable Doubt
“Adam McKay has opted to throw everything at it. The result is a show that leaves you feeling vaguely uncomfortable”
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CriticsFalklands War: The Untold Story; Edward VIII: Britain’s Traitor King
“This thorough, rigorous documentary is an exhaustive and engaging account of what happened”
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CriticsThe Apprentice; Pachinko; Hospital
‘From a cruise ship logo that looked like, well, faeces, to a baby food brand with “dies” on the jar, series 16 has been a gift’
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CriticsMasterChef; The Island; Love in the Flesh; Council House Swap; The Distant Barking of Dogs
‘I never dreamt I’d say this but — more Wallace, please’
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CriticsThe Simpler Life; The Great Celebrity Bake Off
‘Considered within its genre — reality TV as social experiment — the early signs are of a thought-provoking series’
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CriticsThen Barbara Met Alan
‘As much a moving love story and wryly amusing sitcom as it is an emotionally charged chronicle of a small revolution’
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CriticsDynasties II; Skint; The Speedshop; Bridgerton
‘Dynasties II was superb, the puma cubs so effortlessly adorable they make Disney’s best efforts look lame’
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CriticsTop Boy; WeCrashed; Joanna Lumley’s Great Cities of the World
“If you binge-watch the eight episodes (as many fans will surely do), you’ll feel spat out, exhausted, thrilled”
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CriticsKate & Koji; Bloods; Council House Swap; Bad Vegan
“The laughs were smeared through Kate and Koji like ketchup lathered on a bacon butty”
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CriticsThe Killing of PC Harper; Rock Till We Drop; Bad Vegan; Fame In The Family
“No one who hears an account of a shocking bereavement such as Lissie’s can remain unmoved or uncompassionate”
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CriticsHolding; Bridge of Lies
“It is what you might expect of a version of Ireland conceived by Graham Norton: colourful, funny, warm, and only intermittently acerbic”
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