All Critics articles – Page 78
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CriticsThe Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk
“To call it ‘mad’ is like calling Caligula ‘a bit nudey’. It is batshit crazy”
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CriticsPortillo: The Trouble with the Tories
“After two decades of railway journeys and appearances on This Week, Michael Portillo has finally made the television programme he was born to make”
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CriticsThe Best Little Prison in Britain
“The title jauntily evokes a fictional Texan whorehouse, which feels a tad inappropriate before we’ve even started”
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CriticsHow to Break into the Elite, BBC2
”Astute and depressing because it confirmed what I imagine many already suspected.”
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CriticsThe Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan
“Romesh Ranganathan has nailed the celebrity travel documentary. No other celebs need bother trying.”
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CriticsAnimal Babies: First Year on Earth
“The visuals were sumptuous and the sense of intimacy occasionally extraordinary, yet there was little sense of genuine jeopardy”
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CriticsWho Do You Think You Are?
“The genealogy stalwart, now on its 16th series and fresh from another Bafta win, remains consistently superb”
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CriticsA Cut Too Far? Male Circumcision
“An open-minded, generous-hearted look at an underexamined subject”
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CriticsInside the Social Network
“I was constantly reminded of the smile on the face of Orwell’s Big Brother.”
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CriticsNadiya’s Time to Eat
“Nadiya may have started her career with baking but it is clear with every new series that she is the natural heir to Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver”
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CriticsLouis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family
“Deathly dull and felt like a misstep by this much-loved documentary maker”
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CriticsMad Cow Disease: The Great British Beef Scandal
“There aren’t many frills on the BBC’s new documentary about the epidemic that scandalised the nation in the 1990s; few frills are needed”
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Critics8 Days: To the Moon and Back
“A masterclass of seamless editing, it was engrossing, emotive and visually stunning.”
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CriticsCyclists: Scourge of the Streets?
“The internet’s most tedious pedantry brought to life in the shape of a documentary”
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CriticsDark Money
“There is so much trauma that I felt was simply never excoriated fully enough – our connection to the drama could have been much stronger”