All Critics articles – Page 105
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TV Critics: Ramsay's Hotel Hell; Freud: Genius of the Modern World
“The episode had the sort of in-the-bones gloom you normally only find in Russian novels”
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TV Critics: The Women Who Kill Lions; Britain's Favourite Dogs; All The Way
“The film ended abruptly and provided few answers. It would have been fascinating to see what Louis Theroux would have done with the subject”
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TV Critics: The Living and the Dead; Life Inside Jail: Hell On Earth; Inside Porton Down; Taskmaster
“This is genuinely creepy, genuinely clever, without trying to rewrite the rules”
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TV Critics: Superfoods: The Real Story; Wentworth Prison; Handmade: By Royal Appointment; Great British Sewing Bee
“The programme never offered up a working definition of the term ‘superfood’”
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TV Critics: Oscar Pistorius: The Interview; Messages Home: Lost Films of the British Army; Sacrifice
“I expected more from the man who exposed Jimmy Savile”
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TV Critics: Frat Boys; What Britain Buys; Natural World; Genius of the Modern World
“Chris Taylor’s film was rivetingly revealing. It made the notorious Bullingdon Club seem not that bad by comparison.”
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TV Critics: Celebrity MasterChef; Storyville; The £100K House
“This new series got off to an absurdly strong start.”
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TV Critics: Mr v Mrs; The Border; The Secret Life of a Bus Garage; Britain’s Most Spectacular Backyard Builds
“A fascinating insight into a world you would normally only ever see from the inside, if it were happening to you.”
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TV Critics: Game of Thrones; The Secret Life of Kittens; The Great British Sewing Bee
“The battle scene was a tour-de-force of grimness, brilliantly shot and surreally edited.”
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TV Critics: Gogglesprogs; Penelope Keith: at Her Majesty's Service; City In The Sky; The Challenge
“They’re not just funny; they’re fearless, wise, honest and untainted by prejudice. Excellent critics sometimes, too.”
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TV Critics: Marx: Genius of the Modern World; This World: The New Gypsy Kings
“This film was stymied by too restrictive a focus on giving a blow-by-blow account of a life, rather than on the intellectual achievement for which it is celebrated.”
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TV Critics: Koko; Exposure; Rescue Dog To Superdog
“A portrait of two highly intelligent beings – one human, one gorilla – caught forever between unbridgeable worlds. It was hard to know whom to feel most sorry for.”
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TV Critics: Born on the Same Day; Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled; Revolution and Romance; Little Divas
“Although the three lives neither touched nor particularly illuminated one another, the programme sort of worked.”
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TV Critics: The Secret Life of Kittens; First Dates Abroad; The Great British Sewing Bee; Food Unwrapped; Heathrow
“I like cats, but the relentlessly twee narration left me in a mood to drown a sackful of them.”
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TV Critics: Interview with a Murderer; Escape To The Chateau; City in the Sky; Stupid Man, Smart Phone; Mum
“This was an extraordinary film. Perhaps the police will do something about its findings.”
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TV Critics: New Blood; Make! Craft Britain; Safeword
“There were plenty of Horowitz touches to make this fun. At least it’s not trying to be a Scandi-noir knock-of.”
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TV Critics: Secrets of Growing Up; Versailles; Power Monkeys; Rescue Dog to Super Dog
“Viewers who want science turn to the BBC. Making slightly downmarket science is not going to attract them.”
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TV Critics: Horizon; Rich Brother Poor Brother; Thierry Henry; Lagos To London
“Dr Giles Yeo’s Horizon special was a healthy buffet of factlets served piping hot.”
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TV Critics: Reg; Handmade by Royal Appointment; Meet What You Eat
“McGovern and co have created a magnificent tribute to their courage and a worthy epitaph for the deceased.”
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TV Critics: Penelope Keith; Wallander; You Saw Them Here First; Escape to the Chateau
“This four-part series began well, but made the elementary mistake of trying to cram in too much.”