All Critics articles – Page 80
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CriticsMrs Wilson
“This complex blend of deception and romance proved to be even better than hoped”
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CriticsBabies: Their Wonderful World
“There was an orgy of cutesy background music, which added nothing except irritation, but there were useful snippets to confirm our adult prejudices.”
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CriticsA Great British Injustice
“Conveyed a visceral sense of the incomprehensible horror of being the victim of such injustice.”
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CriticsInside the Foreign Office
“After last week’s pompous and staid introduction to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, this was an upbeat episode loaded with eccentricity”
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CriticsHorizon: The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It?
“An informative, thoroughly- researched and perhaps even too data-dense film”
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CriticsThe Final Table
“Imagine a cooking programme so bombastic it makes Gordon Ramsay’s latest look like Lark Rise to Candleford”
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CriticsInside the Foreign Office
“It is, technically, an exciting time to be an international diplomat. The problem is that this is just not very thrilling to watch”
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CriticsStacey Dooley
“Dooley reaches parts of society that other documentary-makers would struggle to”
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CriticsLiam Bakes
“While Liam Bakes may not be the most demanding of TV cookery shows, it’s among the more enjoyable.”
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CriticsWWI: The Final Hours
“How much more engaging than any dry textbook is this continuing buffet of quality documentaries?”
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CriticsKiller By the Lake
“Like a lot of the European dramas featured in Channel 4’s Walter Presents strand, it is pleasantly bewildering.”
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CriticsDoing Money
“From start to finish it was hardcore, unrelenting misery. It was also outstanding”
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CriticsLouis Theroux’s Altered States
“This was an hour with few fireworks, yet still thoughtful and surreptitiously profound.”
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CriticsDark Heart
“There’s plenty to sustain interest, but in this opening story I’m also sensing potential for it to get a bit silly.”