All Critics articles – Page 58
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CriticsThe Singapore Grip
“ITV’s adaptation of JG Farrell’s satirical novel is sumptuous, but tonally strange, knowingly overacted and hammed up to big band music”
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CriticsDog Tales: The Making of Man’s Best Friend
“You could lean in if interested in the nuts and bolts of pet evolution. Or turn down the sound and ‘ooh’ and ‘aaah’ at the fur balls.”
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CriticsSue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border
“The series felt like an awkward combination of a Mexican travelogue and a hard-hitting film on the issue of migration and the Mexican border”
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CriticsLouis Theroux: Life on the Edge
“Few people have a back catalogue as cracking as Theroux’s and it was an hour well spent”
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CriticsCouncil House Britain
“Beneath the heartwarming tales and amusing tales of cockroaches and eccentrics were enough stories to keep Ken Loach in business for a decade”
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CriticsTwo Weeks to Live
“The episodes require a bit of leaning back and letting it all simply exist, but I admired its dedication to a zippy pace”
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CriticsAll Creatures Great and Small
”With its wild landscapes, drystone walls, steam trains and vintage cars, it was family-friendly comfort-viewing. A soothing balm in febrile times”
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CriticsMe and My Penis
“This tender and thoughtful programme should be added to the sex education curriculum”
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CriticsI Hate Suzie
“A glorious mess of ideas, a potent, fizzing monument to the creativity of its makers”
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CriticsPeter: The Human Cyborg
“It is a rare compliment these days to complain of a documentary being too brief. But this was an exception”
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CriticsThe Truth About Cosmetic Treatments
“You have seen at least 80% of this programme in some shape or form at least 1,000 times before”
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CriticsHarry Hill’s World of TV
“Hill’s comedic analysis of soap operas was like a sort of unhinged Mark Kermode film thesis”
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CriticsCan Sex Offenders Change?
“The intelligent way Becky Southworth handled this film marked her out as a significant talent”
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CriticsManctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom
“This was a revealing programme that managed to say much about a big problem.”
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CriticsLovecraft Country
“Lovecraft Country is a beautiful bounty of black creativity and black history.”