All Critics articles – Page 159

  • Inside Men
    Comment

    3 Feb '12

    2012-02-03T12:02:00Z

    “A tense, knuckle-gnawing thriller.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • The Crusades
    Comment

    2 Feb '12

    2012-02-02T10:56:00Z

    “An intelligent, lively, detail-stuffed account”. Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Prisoners_Wives
    Comment

    1 Feb '12

    2012-02-01T10:39:00Z

    “It is a bit Footballers’ Wives and a little bit Bad Girls.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Protecting Our Children
    Comment

    31 Jan '12

    2012-01-31T09:47:00Z

    “Prepare for grim compromises and a really big lump in the throat.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Birdsong
    Comment

    30 Jan '12

    2012-01-30T09:56:00Z

    “Eddie Redmayne made a virtue of Morgan’s lacunae and played on his inarticulacy.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.

  • Confessions Of A Nurse
    Comment

    25 Jan '12

    2012-01-25T11:11:00Z

    “More intimate and sympathetic than Junior Doctors.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Wonderland - The Real Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
    Comment

    24 Jan '12

    2012-01-24T10:30:00Z

    “It wasn’t about the men, or their machines per se, but about the relationships around them.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Birdsong
    Comment

    23 Jan '12

    2012-01-23T10:05:00Z

    “Perhaps, too many occasions when you feel as if a wreath is being laid in honour of the book.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Putin, Russia and the West
    Comment

    20 Jan '12

    2012-01-20T11:32:00Z

    “Less of an in-depth political documentary and more like CCTV footage from the court of Ivan the Terrible.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Jonathan Meades on France
    Comment

    19 Jan '12

    2012-01-19T10:54:00Z

    “Just as the volume of information was exhaustive and exhausting, so I found myself both stirred and tried by his style.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Horizon: Playing God
    Comment

    18 Jan '12

    2012-01-18T10:52:00Z

    “He said what he saw was amazing but not in that weird, hippy, mystical way that Professor Brian Cox does.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Richard Wilson on Hold
    Comment

    17 Jan '12

    2012-01-17T11:48:00Z

    “We got the message Wilson was making. Had got it in fact long before he had tried to pass it on.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • call_the_midwife
    Comment

    16 Jan '12

    2012-01-16T11:26:00Z

    “Anyone who expected some pleasant but lazily assembled Sunday night cockle-warmer would have been surprised.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • My Daughter the Teenage Nudist
    Comment

    13 Jan '12

    2012-01-13T11:19:00Z

    “The title was by far the most interesting thing about this documentary.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Freddie Flintoff
    Comment

    12 Jan '12

    2012-01-12T11:52:00Z

    “It did suggest that at its highest levels sport is intrinsically damaging.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • the_mystery_of_edwin_drood2
    Comment

    11 Jan '12

    2012-01-11T12:49:00Z

    “It has room for a briskness and understatement that is all too often lacking in television versions.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • coppers
    Comment

    10 Jan '12

    2012-01-10T11:55:00Z

    “When they come knocking at the door they’re generally mistaken for Jehovah’s Witnesses.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.

  • Borgen
    Comment

    9 Jan '12

    2012-01-09T10:57:00Z

    “It’s a fantastically compelling and intricate drama.” Read on for the verdict on the weekend’s TV.

  • Meet Britain’s Chinese Tiger Mums
    Comment

    6 Jan '12

    2012-01-06T10:18:00Z

    “A lesson in observational documentary – measured, calm, objective.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.

  • Public Enemies
    Comment

    5 Jan '12

    2012-01-05T10:07:00Z

    “Credibility is both the subject..and one of its problems.” Read on for the verdict on last night’s TV.