Stick; The Jackal Speaks

“Like Ted Lasso, this is a story that is unafraid to take its flawed characters on an emotionally charged comedic flight over fairway and rough, through the woods and into bunkers, before leaving them all a putt at happiness. If you’re looking for a new comedy, it’s worth a shot.”
Tim Glanfield, The Times

“Stick certainly isn’t rewriting the rules of the genre. It doesn’t even attempt to avoid the clichés, instead it leans into them. It’s cheesier than a double cheeseburger with extra cheese. And that’s all absolutely fine because it’s such a big-hearted, uplifting show.”
Neil Armstrong, The i

“Look, Stick is fine. It’s a pleasant, feelgood half hour every time. It never outstays its welcome, everyone puts in a solid performance and Owen Wilson brings every ounce of energy he has to every scene he’s in. But nothing takes off, never mind soars. Ted Lasso had jokes while Stick trades in mildly humorous lines.”
Lucy Mangan, The Guardian

“It’s all perfectly watchable but, like following an actual golf tournament on TV, if you nod off during the second round only waking up for the closing holes, you won’t have missed too much. As sports comedies go, Stick is pretty much par for the course.”
Keith Watson, The Telegraph

“As the Israeli-made Storyville documentary The Jackal Speaks: Inside the Mind of a Mass Murderer profiles Ilich Ramírez Sánchez and interviews him, his mystique evaporates. He doesn’t sound like a criminal mastermind; instead, the overall impression is that he was narcissistic enough to believe he could get away with outrageous schemes, and psychopathic enough to do the cold-blooded killing. That, rather than any piercing strategic or political vision, was enough.”
Jack Seale, The Guardian

“This was a killer opening to a documentary, so much so that what followed for the next 90 minutes couldn’t quite live up to it, being a whistlestop profile built around a rare phone interview with him, granted to an Israeli film-maker. That itself is slightly ironic given the murderous hatred Sánchez (let’s not flatter him by calling him the Jackal) has towards Israel.”
James Jackson, The Times

“This documentary, produced by an Israeli company, set out to debunk the myths around the Jackal, now 75 and a prisoner in a French jail for the past 30 years. It made much of his vanity, his alcoholism and his slow slide into irrelevance as the fad for Communist revolutions died out. But it forgot that Carlos — whose real name is Ilich Ramirez Sanchez — is still a global hero and a revered freedom fighter… in his own mind.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail