All Critics articles – Page 96
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CriticsThe Queen’s Green Planet
“Much has been written about ‘slow television’, but you would struggle to find anything more soporifically relaxing than this”
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CriticsMy Year With the Tribe
“It turns into an ethical quagmire and I am not sure that My Year With the Tribe escapes from it simply by addressing that fact”
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CriticsLiving With the Brainy Bunch
“Exploitative, heartless television, which offered a completely impractical solution to the problem of disaffected pupils”
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CriticsBacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy
“Bettany achieved the unlikely feat of making Bacchus Uncovered relevant to young party-goers and archeologists alike”
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CriticsThe Class of Mum and Dad
“Rather than learning about the dynamics of the playground, we’re just watching another reality show”
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CriticsKilling Eve
“Slickly made and mightily entertaining, Killing Eve brings a new energy to the well-worn game of cat-and-mouse staged by many a murder mystery.”
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CriticsThe City & The City
“This feels like last year’s SS-GB with extra lashings of gloomy cynicism”
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CriticsThe Investigator
“Somewhere in here is a powerful story of the impact of a missing woman on her family.”
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CriticsMy Dad, the Peace Deal and Me
“Smart, thoughtful film, the truths of which seemed to take even its presenter by surprise at times”
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CriticsCunk on Britain
“Very funny, and as an excuse to laugh yourself into a stupor, it’s very welcome, too”
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CriticsAre You Autistic?
“A fairly basic primer, but it was undoubtedly one the public sorely needs”
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CriticsThe Queen: Her Commonwealth Story
“For all of the charming anecdotes and evocative footage, genuine insights were few and far between”
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CriticsRAF at 100
“Ewan McGregor proved a worthy presenter of a remarkable 90-minuter in which his passion for RAF aircraft was obvious”
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CriticsContagion!
“It gave us proper, grown-up science and didn’t pitch it at the IQ of a five-year-old”
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CriticsThe Secret Helpers
“No offence to those who took part, but it was sentimental mediocrity dressed up as documentary”
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CriticsThe World’s Ugliest Pets
“Didn’t offer that much to marvel at, unless it was the food bills at Caroline Quentin’s house”
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CriticsThe Funeral Murders; Imagine…
“A masterful and careful handling of an ever-combustible narrative”