All Critics articles – Page 40
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CriticsThe Witchfinder
“With a stellar cast and a novel premise, you’ll struggle to find 30 better minutes right now”
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CriticsOur House; Life and Death in the Warehouse; Katie Price: What Harvey Did Next
“A cream puff of cliché and delicious intrigue”
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CriticsThe Ipcress File; Peaky Blinders
“The whole production is stylish, the dialogue is good and I’m glad they haven’t polished things too much, retaining its retro, grainy charm”
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CriticsThe Dropout; Amol Rajan Interviews: Ian McKellen; Joe vs Carole
“The Dropout tells Holmes’s story with a little too much admiration”
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CriticsYour Body Uncovered With Kate Garraway; Joe vs Carole
“The programme was smart enough not to lose sight of its public service impulse”
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CriticsMood; Rock Till We Drop; The Holiday
“This is exactly the kind of fresh voice that BBC3 should be championing”
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CriticsMurder in Provence; Killing Eve; Emergency; Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes
“The set-up is lovely, and the locations glorious. I just wish the plots were a little less pedestrian”
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CriticsPeaky Blinders; Killing Eve; Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italy
“This was the Peaky Blinders we have fallen in love with over the past nine years”
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CriticsBilly Connolly Does; The Big Freeze; Vikings: Valhalla
“The anecdotes are criminally entertaining”
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CriticsWe Are Black and British; Mission: Joy; Frayed; Yorkshire Ripper
“We Are Black and British can comfortably claim to be the most intelligent reality TV show in recent memory”
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CriticsKate Garraway: Caring for Derek; Rigs Of Nigg
“As a collection of moments, documentaries don’t come much more moving than this”
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CriticsCat Burglar; Moors Murders: The Witness; The Real Dirty Dancing
“The joy comes from the brilliantly observed homages to cartoons of the golden era”
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CriticsCall the Midwife; Louis Theroux’s Forbidden America; Jane McDonald: My Yorkshire
“Always stays classy, and this was no exception”
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CriticsSeverance; Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig; The Marvelous Mrs Maisel
“For all its sci-fi stylings, Severance will ring true for anyone trapped in a job they hate”
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CriticsGemma Collins: Self-Harm and Me; Jeen-Yuhs; Shakespeare & Hathaway
“Collins has provided a blueprint for taking steps to get better”
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CriticsTraces; Devil’s Advocate; Secrets of the Krays
“Those who tuned in to see what Martin Compston did next will have been glad they went to the effort”
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CriticsRise of the Nazis: Dictators at War; Bel Air; The Millionairess and Me
“Despite the dramatic voiceover it was mostly a classy documentary”
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CriticsForbidden America; Starstruck
“Theroux did a clever job of drawing them out so that their smiley masks slipped, showing the true colours beneath”
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CriticsThe Fast and the Farmer-ish; Mega Mansion Hunters; Magpie Murders; President
“It is an extremely silly but strangely entertaining show”