TV critics – Page 72
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CriticsAnimal Babies: First Year on Earth
“The visuals were sumptuous and the sense of intimacy occasionally extraordinary, yet there was little sense of genuine jeopardy”
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CriticsWho Do You Think You Are?
“The genealogy stalwart, now on its 16th series and fresh from another Bafta win, remains consistently superb”
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CriticsA Cut Too Far? Male Circumcision
“An open-minded, generous-hearted look at an underexamined subject”
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CriticsInside the Social Network
“I was constantly reminded of the smile on the face of Orwell’s Big Brother.”
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CriticsNadiya’s Time to Eat
“Nadiya may have started her career with baking but it is clear with every new series that she is the natural heir to Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver”
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CriticsLouis Theroux: Surviving America’s Most Hated Family
“Deathly dull and felt like a misstep by this much-loved documentary maker”
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CriticsMad Cow Disease: The Great British Beef Scandal
“There aren’t many frills on the BBC’s new documentary about the epidemic that scandalised the nation in the 1990s; few frills are needed”
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Critics8 Days: To the Moon and Back
“A masterclass of seamless editing, it was engrossing, emotive and visually stunning.”
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CriticsCyclists: Scourge of the Streets?
“The internet’s most tedious pedantry brought to life in the shape of a documentary”
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CriticsDark Money
“There is so much trauma that I felt was simply never excoriated fully enough – our connection to the drama could have been much stronger”
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CriticsWar in the Blood
“The material was given room to breathe, with interviews that probed the subjects gently, but at length. The results made for wrenching viewing”
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CriticsAnna: The Woman Who Fought ISIS
“Anna: The Woman Who Went to Fight Isis showed the unique peril of having the child who is brave and principled.”
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CriticsJudi Dench’s Wild Borneo Adventure
“There is nothing here we haven’t seen before, but the facts and figures remain astonishing.”
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CriticsBritain’s Next Disaster? Drones
“Before, I barely thought about drones; now I may not stop.”
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CriticsJohn McEnroe: Still Rockin’ at 60
“An hour in the company of this great and unexpectedly generous raconteur flew by like a backhand volley”