All Critics articles – Page 40
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CriticsFoundation
“Every character feels like an android. The whole exercise is devoid of any humour whatsoever”
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CriticsPrince Philip: The Royal Family Remembers
“It was a poignant, loving, mostly upbeat tribute that, unusually for set-piece royal documentaries, actually seemed to be offering something new”
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CriticsNever Mind The Buzzcocks
“When everyone stops trying so hard and the series settles down a bit, it might prove as entertaining as the original”
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CriticsLast Man Standing: Suge Knight and the Murders of Biggie & Tupac
“A depressing tale of depressing people doing depressing things to other people including murder”
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CriticsThe Man Putin Couldn’t Kill
“It was all pretty entertaining, which is an odd approach but in keeping with the man who hasn’t been killed (yet)”
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CriticsSpice Girls: How Girl Power Changed the World
“Documentaries like this can be have-your-cake-and-eat-it feasts of nostalgia. It is thrilling to remember the rush, but this is also an attempt to reassess the era.”
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CriticsDeath on the Common: My Mother’s Murder
“Rarely has such a TV documentary featured someone so unwilling to capitulate into self-pity or be defined by the victim card.”
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CriticsFever Pitch: The Rise of the Premier League
“It was a story told with energy and vim, with decent contributions. But I’m not sure there was much here that we didn’t already know”
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CriticsGrantchester
“I find it hard to believe that there was ever an Anglican clergyman in those days who looked so buff or so Brando-esque on a motorbike”
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CriticsImagine… Bernardine Evaristo: Never Give Up
“This was largely an upbeat, unpretentious 70 minutes, Evaristo appearing to be refreshingly unaffected for a writer so fêted”
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CriticsLee Mack’s Road to Soccer Aid
“Mack has bags of charm and an everyman quality that made this hour a pleasure to watch”
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Critics9/11: Inside the President’s War Room
“Gives the sensation of being in the room in a way that few documentaries ever have”
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CriticsSixteen: Class of 2021
“Channel 4 discovered long ago that schools are fertile ground for TV producers.”
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CriticsGossip Girl
“It saps its juicy premise of all its fun, is po-faced and didactic rather than enjoyably preposterous”