All Critics articles – Page 128
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CriticsTV Critics: Who Do You Think You Are?; Last Secrets of 9/11; The Honourable Woman
“No one booms like Brian Blessed, and in real life he’s the fruity-voiced thesp exactly as advertised.”
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CriticsTV Critics: 100 Year Old Drivers; The World's War; The Beauty of Anatomy
“It’s funny. It’s supposed to be, I know, because of the maddening plinkety-plonkety this-is-funny music”
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CriticsTV Critics: Women Of World War One; Cooks' Questions
“I’d expected a happy ending but what we got was far more important”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Village; James May's Cars of The People
“Could life ever have been so lacking in joy, humour or redemption?”
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CriticsTV Critics: Our World War; Who Do You Think You Are?; Cuckoo
“Much of the acting was palpably ham, with slain German soldiers dropping to the ground like children in a school play”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Great British Bake Off; Secrets From The Clink; The World’s War
“That familiar theme tune that heralds the end of our summer diets and the beginning of a nationwide baking binge”
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CriticsTV Critics: In The Club; Kids Behind Bars; Masters of Sex
“Kay Mellor crammed so much drama into last night’s opener it’s hard to imagine where she’s left herself to go, short of an Ebola outbreak in Leeds.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Gomorrah; Railways of the Great War; Horrible Histories
“By the end of one episode of Gomorrah you felt like entering a witness protection programme”
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CriticsTV Critics: Brothers in Arms; Great War Diaries; Radical Lives; The Singer Takes It All
“It’s only in programmes like these that television really does justice to our duty of remembrance.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Kids and Guns; Beavers Behaving Badly; Noel Fielding’s Luxury Comedy
“The film seemed more like a hillbilly freak show, suggesting that trailer-trash, rednecks and vets self-evidently don’t mix with the American right to bear arms”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Stuarts; Art of China
“Dr Clare is far too serious-minded for scandal or smut”
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CriticsTV Critics: Utopia; The Alternative Comedy Experience; Kirstie’s Fill Your House for Free
“As the plot intensifies in Utopia, so too does the garish colour scheme and the risk of blood splatter”
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CriticsTV Critics: Children of Syria; Timeshift; Blinging Up Baby
“It’s not an easy watch. Doucet’s commentary is weighed down with tragedy and horror, an artillery barrage of gloom”
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CriticsTV Critics: Tom’s Fantastic Floating Home; Child Genius; Red Arrows: Inside The Bubble
“He appeared to go through life as if constantly nibbling a giant Wonka bar”
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CriticsTV Critics: Diamond Geezers and Gold Dealers; The Honourable Woman; Penguin Post Office
“A film that was little more than a space-filler.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Fifteen Billion Pound Railway; Operation Cloud Lab; The Mimic
“I’d challenge anyone to not utter a silent ‘wow’”
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CriticsTV Critics: Sir Chris Hoy: How to Win Gold; 100 Seconds to Beat the World; Hive Alive; The Mindy Project
“How to Win Gold was such a fascinating and well-made piece of television that it even had me hooked.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Clothes to Die For; Long Lost Family; Royal Marines Commando School; Every Breath We Take
“Clothes to Die For felt like the definitive – and most devastating – account.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Mill; Child Genius; People Just Do Nothing; The Seven Wonders Of The Commonwealth
“It grips with the power of a story shrieking to be told.”