All Critics articles – Page 115
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CriticsTV Critics: Horizon; Supervet In The Field; The Great British Bake Off
“This was a balanced assessment. It was also, surprisingly for a medical-focused film, evocatively shot.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Christian Louboutin; Aquarius; The TV That Made Me; Scrappers
“You didn’t have to be overawed by Louboutin’s creative process to find this year-in-the-life snapshot amusing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Brits Behind Bars; The Last Man on Earth; Britain’s Nuclear Secrets; Plant Odysseys; Epilepsy and Me
“I’ve seen documentaries about grocery shops with less access than this.”
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TV Critics: Atomic; Partners in Crime; Sinatra; From Venice to Istanbul
“This was not an informative piece of film-making: it was an art installation masquerading as television.”
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CriticsTV Critics: If Katie Hopkins Ruled the World; Sex in Class; Wonder Of Britain; Flockstars
“If Katie Hopkins Rule the World was a mixed bag: part game show, part tabloid talk show, part gaseous deposit of horse droppings.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Bake Off; Earth's Natural Wonders; Horizon: The Trouble with Space Junk
“Pruning two days of footage into a gripping hour is no mean feat and this was tight as a marquee guyrope.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Are Our Kids Tough Enough?; New Tricks; Hunt For The Arctic Ghost Ship
“The trajectory of the documentary felt as repetitive as a Chinese lesson plan.”
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CriticsTV Critics: A Very British Brothel; Flying to the Ends of the Earth; Travel Guides; Life In Squares
“A fascinating snapshot of the more responsible end of a largely hidden world.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Tut; Humans; Partners in Crime; Nature Nuts
“It has enough colourful costumes, large-scale battles and exotic harem-set scenes to make it one of Channel 5’s most promising acquisitions since Gotham.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Prince Philip; Flockstars; Atlantic
“This was interesting both as a biography of this eccentric royal and as a record of the behind-the-scenes machinations of an influential 20th-century figure.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Signed, Sealed, Delivered; Witnesses; The Day They Dropped The Bomb
“There’s a trend in TV for these corporate documentaries. They’ve become predictable, with the distinct whiff of a PR exercise.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Three Day Nanny; Taskmaster; Child Genius; Brits Behind Bars
“To succeed as television, extra infusions of tantrums and teeth-gnashing were urgently required.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Life in Squares; BBC: The Secret Files; 24 Hours in Police Custody
“There’s plenty for all in this shapely exhumation.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Partners in Crime; Dancing Through The Blitz; Experimental
“These were two superb performances that took a flimsy tale of cloak-and- dagger espionage and transformed it into exciting drama.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain Sees Red: Caught on Camera; The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime; Dogs On the Dole
“Grainy footage of rush hour traffic bumping over pavements to get past rubbish carts makes very dull viewing.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Witnesses; One Born Every Minute; Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
“What gives Witnesses its own identity is that its particularly morbid plot makes it arguably even creepier than anything else to come out of Scandinavia.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Me and My New Brain; Child Genius; Not Safe for Work
“It was the unexpected sidelights on life that made this documentary stand out.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Britain at the Bookies; Cake Bakers and Trouble Makers; Lookalikes
“It was hard not to ponder whether the subjects had some say in a largely favourable portrayal.”
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CriticsTV Critics: London’s Lost Graveyard; Wigton to Westminster; The Outcast; Javone Prince; Dragons’ Den
“The old Bethlehem burying ground unearthed near Liverpool Street station is fascinating in itself and doesn’t need the bang-crash-crikey treatment given here.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ireland’s Wild River; Married at First Sight; The Holiday Airport
“As warm and satisfying as a giant bowl of mashed potato.”