All Critics articles – Page 69
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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”
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CriticsHorizon: The Restaurant that Burns Off Calories
“An elaborate stunt to jazz up a report on the science of calories.”
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CriticsToo Hot to Handle
“Escapism at its trashiest, which is great, as long as you don’t think about it too deeply”
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CriticsAfter Auschwitz
“The film did get sidetracked by other political issues, which diluted the impact, but it was still utterly compelling”
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CriticsPrue Leith: Journey with My Daughter
“This was a bit different from your bog-standard genealogy documentary”
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CriticsThe Countess and the Russian Billionaire
“If ever a title undersold its dynamite content this one did. It was extraordinary; a Jeremy Kyle Show for the 1 per cent.”
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CriticsKilling Eve
“If series two was the difficult second album, then series three is the middle-of-the-road comeback”
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CriticsGordon, Gino and Fred: American Road Trip
“Only one moment in the entire hour-and-a-quarter felt even faintly unrehearsed”
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CriticsSave Me Too
“It speaks to the power of this drama that, more than any other show on TV right now, you would give anything for this one to have a happy ending”
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CriticsThe Trip to Greece
“The streak of melancholy was always what pushed The Trip beyond its frippery, so I guess this was the ending it deserved all along”
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CriticsThe Real Michael Jackson
“This has much more in common with Louis Theroux’s 2016 Savile film than Leaving Neverland”