All Critics articles – Page 81
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CriticsCleaning Up
“There is not quite enough story but, overall, this is the kind of solid, well-made nonsense that is such a rare and precious joy.”
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CriticsCatastrophe
“It is as warmly vicious, and viciously warm, as it has always been, and its acid tone cuts through with as much originality as it did in 2015”
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CriticsBrexit: The Uncivil War
“Somewhere along the line James Graham seems to have succumbed to the dramatist’s temptation of falling in love with his subject.”
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CriticsBack in Time for School
“The sheer likeability of the participants made for an engaging pop-historical romp”
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CriticsThe ‘Christmas’ Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan
“Full of stunning snowscapes and copious swearing, this was an enlightening, amusing jaunt”
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CriticsWorld Cup: Summer Of Love
“It was stirring to hear once again the sage words of manager Gareth Southgate”
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CriticsThe Long Song
“A beautiful, moving, horrifying adaptation of her unsimple tale, that honours the source and its subject”
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CriticsBilly Connolly’s Ultimate World Tour
“There was a strangely valedictory feel, as if that ’ultimate’ was being used in its older, purer, sense of ‘last’.”
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CriticsOld People’s Home for 4 Year Olds at Christmas
“The perfect balance between sentiment and straight talking was achieved”
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CriticsMrs Wilson
“In fictionalising so much of his life, Alec Wilson unwittingly provided the world with his most compelling story of all”
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CriticsSir Cliff Richard: 60 Years in Public and Private
“Some subtle questions about our relationship with celebrity, while only scratching the surface of the complicated man at its core.”
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CriticsEscape from Dubai: The Mystery of the Missing Princess
“A story so astonishing that at times even its participants are forced to admit that events sound far-fetched.”
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CriticsNorth Korea: Life Inside the Secret State
“A frightening, informative, look at life under the terror of a totalitarian regime.”
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CriticsRise of the Clans, BBC4
“A superbly vivid account of how bloodthirsty Scottish tribes joined forces in the early 1300s to drive out the English.”
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