All Critics articles – Page 23
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CriticsOur Guy In Colombia; Special Ops: Lioness; Fifteen-Love
“There was barely a dull moment in Our Guy in Colombia as he showed how to make the lazy celebrity travelogue significantly less boring”
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CriticsRosie Jones: Am I a R*tard?; Surgeons: A Matter of Life or Death
“Jones will be called “brave” for fronting this documentary. She undoubtedly is”
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CriticsBritain’s Most Expensive Houses
“No one commented on the insanity of installing a lift for nearly half a million quid, to whisk you to the gym room”
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CriticsThe Bear; Why Sharks Attack; Is Cricket Racist?
“The writing remains incredible. Fleet, funny and always moving seamlessly from light to dark moments and back again”
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CriticsThe Sixth Commandment; University Challenge; Earth
“Altogether it is as fine a piece of television as you will ever see”
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CriticsWorld on Fire; Right to Fight; Becoming Elizabeth
“Writer Peter Bowker makes both the grand narratives and the minutiae equally vivid and stirring”
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CriticsCelebrity Save Our Sperm; Murder in the Family; Master Crafters
“It was a worthwhile show aiming to bust the taboos around male fertility, using three celebrities who approached it all with good cheer”
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CriticsA League of Their Own Special; Old House, New Home; Murder on the Blackpool Express; Quantum Leap
“Listening to these comics’ painful banter was at times as excruciating as a two-footed tackle to the crotch”
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CriticsHeat; Teens in Care; Brave Britain with Fergal Keane
“A diverting ride with a refreshingly different and topical setting”
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CriticsUnknown: Killer Robots; 24 Hours in A&E; Supermarkets Unwrapped; Police: Night Shift 999
“You sense that its heart lies with the cool guys making all the cool stuff”
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CriticsThen You Run; The Sixth Commandment; Exploring India’s Treasures; The Traitors Australia
“This eight-parter is an enjoyably chaotic thriller that looks the business, and doesn’t take its foot off the pedal for a second”
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CriticsEllie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family; The Effects of Lying
“The Paralympic swimmer and Strictly contestant’s quest to track down her birth mother was unusually sincere, eye-opening and moving”
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CriticsJoanna 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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CriticsBlindspot; 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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CriticsThe 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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CriticsEvacuation; Champion
“A gripping blow-by-blow account of the efforts to evacuate British nationals and eligible Afghans”
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CriticsSecrets 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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CriticsThe 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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CriticsHijack; Sounds Like the 80s; Dispatches
“Not a moment, not a drinks carton, not an in-flight entertainment system is wasted”
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CriticsSigns 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”