All Critics articles – Page 62
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CriticsA Very British Hotel Chain: Inside Best Western
“In a world in which the margins of fairness and kindness are being so tightly squeezed, it felt like a dismal hour in a time already full of them”
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CriticsHarry’s Heroes: Euro Having a Laugh
“It worked in showing raw masculinity coping honestly with the big stuff”
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CriticsEurovision: Europe Shines a Light
“As with almost everything else, Eurovision had been ruined by coronavirus”
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CriticsCharlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe
“Sick, puerile and full of childish toilet humour. Thank you, Charlie Brooker, for making me laugh”
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CriticsThe Country That Beat the Virus
“Guru-Murthy never explicitly condemned the UK government. He didn’t need to”
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CriticsPaul Hollywood Eats Japan
“Hollywood never lost the look of a man who was counting the minutes till he could go home”
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CriticsHospital Special: Fighting Covid-19
“When this is over and they come to write the history of this virus, documentaries such as this will be living encyclopaedias.”
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CriticsRhod Gilbert’s Work Experience
“Nobody uttered the word ’journey’, thankfully, but that was the format of this half-hour race to enlightenment”
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CriticsIsolation Stories
“Shall fairly stand as the first televisual jewel in the Covid-era crown.”
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CriticsPaul Hollywood Eats Japan
“I was left feeling that the Japanese deserved a bit better than having a big lunk like Hollywood crashing around their country”
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CriticsNormal People
“A beautiful piece of work capturing the fervid intensity of a first teenage sexual relationship with charm and poignancy”
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CriticsThe Great British Sewing Bee
“A lovely thing to watch, because everyone involved is nice. The contestants are nice, every last one of them”
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CriticsLife and Birth
“Life and Birth played with your emotions like a yo-yo — trepidation turned to trauma, despair to joy”