All Critics articles – Page 156
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Comment13 April '12
“If Gervais is guilty of anything here it’s not cynical exploitation, but self-regarding naivety.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment12 April '12
“Bettany Hughes acts as a kind of Indiana Jones of gender redress.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment11 April '12
“It just charted, in its unsensationalist, unsentimental way, the stories of prostate cancer sufferers.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment10 April '12
“I’d love to say that this film was uplifting, but it wasn’t.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment5 April '12
“A toothsome little documentary series taking writer Giles Coren around our isle.”
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Comment3 April '12
“The episode actually trod a fine line between sentimentality and ridicule, and frequently went flying over it.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment2 April '12
“There was very little evidence in [Hirst’s] conversation of the searching self-dissatisfaction that is often the hallmark of a great artist.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment30 Mar '12
“The characters are archetypes. And it is almost totally humourless.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment29 Mar '12
“If ever a franchise was dying on its feet, it’s this.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment28 March '12
“This is a perfectly serviceable drama. But it’s about as edgy as an episode of Poirot.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment27 March '12
“It was a beautifully structured, tightly wound, slow-burn thriller.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment26 March '12
“Some will live, some will drown. So far, they’ll none of ’em be missed.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment23 March '12
“Herzog provided a brilliant portrait of confinement.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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22 March '12
“The Apprentice is more formulaic than Formula 1.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment21 March '12
“It was, essentially, a face-off between acceptance and technological intervention.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment20 March '12
“Like so many other cooking programmes, it tried to cram in a bit of forced travelogue.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment19 March '12
“A history of state-propaganda, with a historian’s over-reliance on written sources.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment16 March '12
“This is good telly, not least because of its forthright presenter and its frilly subject matter.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment15 March '12
“The film had the aroma of a balanced report.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.
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Comment14 March '12
“There has never been a better argument for being unconscious.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.