All Critics articles – Page 18
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CriticsUnknown: Killer Robots; 24 Hours in A&E; Supermarkets Unwrapped; Police: Night Shift 999
“You sense that its heart lies with the cool guys making all the cool stuff”
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CriticsThen You Run; The Sixth Commandment; Exploring India’s Treasures; The Traitors Australia
“This eight-parter is an enjoyably chaotic thriller that looks the business, and doesn’t take its foot off the pedal for a second”
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CriticsEllie Simmonds: Finding My Secret Family; The Effects of Lying
“The Paralympic swimmer and Strictly contestant’s quest to track down her birth mother was unusually sincere, eye-opening and moving”
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CriticsJoanna Lumley’s Spice Trail Adventure
“Lumley’s principal role seems to be to breathily gush, smile, say words like ‘golly’ a lot and float around in lots of linen”
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CriticsBlindspot; Bake Off: The Professionals; Cooking With The Stars
“Ross Kemp and Beth Alsbury had great chemistry as ordinary people caught in the headlights of a murder investigation”
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CriticsThe Idol; Britain on Film; The King Who Never Was
“The last episode confirmed it was not only the worst TV show of the year – but a potential turkey for the ages”
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CriticsEvacuation; Champion
“A gripping blow-by-blow account of the efforts to evacuate British nationals and eligible Afghans”
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CriticsSecrets of the Bay City Rollers; Inside the Iranian Uprising
“Powerful and sensitively made, and helps dismantle the culture of shame and silence that suppressed these men’s stories for decades”
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CriticsThe Trouble with KanYe
“An epic undertaking, yet the film failed to deepen my understanding of West’s place in popular culture in any meaningful way”
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CriticsHijack; Sounds Like the 80s; Dispatches
“Not a moment, not a drinks carton, not an in-flight entertainment system is wasted”
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CriticsSigns for Change; PopMaster TV; The Great Railway Disaster
“A wonderful, instructive challenge to general perceptions of deafness and an absolute education for the hearing community”
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CriticsThe Clinic; The Plot to Kidnap a Royal; I’m a Virgo; Before We Die
“A calm and non-judgmental look at an emotive subject”
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CriticsWindrush: Portraits of a Generation; Glamorous; Puzzling
“There is plenty to admire in Windrush, but the programme is out of step with the news”
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CriticsThe Change; The She Goes; And Just Like That…
“Crammed with as many themes, storylines and grievances as Linda has symptoms. But it’s also generously stuffed with gags”
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CriticsSecret Invasion; Dr Death; Your Home Made Perfect; Jay Blades’ East End Through Time
“It follows a strangely humourless script and has an overwhelming sense of dramatic inertia”
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CriticsWonders of the World I Can’t See; Crashed; Litvinenko
“This was a celebration of grumpy old men-style friendship between two lovably cranky comedians”
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CriticsQueen of Oz; Van der Valk; We Love Glastonbury
“The central idea could be fun if it was done better”
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CriticsCount Abdulla; Blackadder; Britain’s Most Expensive Houses; Killer in Plain Sight
“It mostly pulls off the high-wire act of being woke, funny, topical and really silly all at once”
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CriticsThe Full Monty; The Witness Is a Whale; Africa Rising with Afua Hirsch
“What’s missing is the film’s sense of joy and the triumph-over-adversity provided by the stripping”