All Critics articles – Page 10
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Joanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure
“Lumley’s principal role seems to be to breathily gush, smile, say words like ‘golly’ a lot and float around in lots of linen”
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Blindspot; Bake Off: The Professionals; Cooking With The Stars
“Ross Kemp and Beth Alsbury had great chemistry as ordinary people caught in the headlights of a murder investigation”
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The Idol; Britain on Film; The King Who Never Was
“The last episode confirmed it was not only the worst TV show of the year – but a potential turkey for the ages”
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Evacuation; Champion
“A gripping blow-by-blow account of the efforts to evacuate British nationals and eligible Afghans”
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Secrets of the Bay City Rollers; Inside the Iranian Uprising
“Powerful and sensitively made, and helps dismantle the culture of shame and silence that suppressed these men’s stories for decades”
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The Trouble with KanYe
“An epic undertaking, yet the film failed to deepen my understanding of West’s place in popular culture in any meaningful way”
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Hijack; Sounds Like the 80s; Dispatches
“Not a moment, not a drinks carton, not an in-flight entertainment system is wasted”
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Signs for Change; PopMaster TV; The Great Railway Disaster
“A wonderful, instructive challenge to general perceptions of deafness and an absolute education for the hearing community”
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The Clinic; The Plot to Kidnap a Royal; I’m a Virgo; Before We Die
“A calm and non-judgmental look at an emotive subject”
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Windrush: Portraits of a Generation; Glamorous; Puzzling
“There is plenty to admire in Windrush, but the programme is out of step with the news”
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The Change; The She Goes; And Just Like That…
“Crammed with as many themes, storylines and grievances as Linda has symptoms. But it’s also generously stuffed with gags”
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Secret Invasion; Dr Death; Your Home Made Perfect; Jay Blades’ East End Through Time
“It follows a strangely humourless script and has an overwhelming sense of dramatic inertia”
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Wonders of the World I Can’t See; Crashed; Litvinenko
“This was a celebration of grumpy old men-style friendship between two lovably cranky comedians”
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Queen of Oz; Van der Valk; We Love Glastonbury
“The central idea could be fun if it was done better”
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Count Abdulla; Blackadder; Britain’s Most Expensive Houses; Killer in Plain Sight
“It mostly pulls off the high-wire act of being woke, funny, topical and really silly all at once”
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The Full Monty; The Witness Is a Whale; Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch
“What’s missing is the film’s sense of joy and the triumph-over-adversity provided by the stripping”
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Elizabeth: A Life Through the Lens; Gods of Tennis
“There has been no shortage of royal television over the past few months, so a lot of this was very familiar”
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Davina McCall’s Pill Revolution; The Shadow and the Light; The Crowded Room
“A powerful documentary that will leave many viewers making more informed decisions about their bodies”