All Critics articles – Page 53
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CriticsSue Perkins: Along the US-Mexico Border
“The series felt like an awkward combination of a Mexican travelogue and a hard-hitting film on the issue of migration and the Mexican border”
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CriticsLouis Theroux: Life on the Edge
“Few people have a back catalogue as cracking as Theroux’s and it was an hour well spent”
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CriticsCouncil House Britain
“Beneath the heartwarming tales and amusing tales of cockroaches and eccentrics were enough stories to keep Ken Loach in business for a decade”
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CriticsTwo Weeks to Live
“The episodes require a bit of leaning back and letting it all simply exist, but I admired its dedication to a zippy pace”
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CriticsAll Creatures Great and Small
”With its wild landscapes, drystone walls, steam trains and vintage cars, it was family-friendly comfort-viewing. A soothing balm in febrile times”
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CriticsMe and My Penis
“This tender and thoughtful programme should be added to the sex education curriculum”
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CriticsI Hate Suzie
“A glorious mess of ideas, a potent, fizzing monument to the creativity of its makers”
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CriticsPeter: The Human Cyborg
“It is a rare compliment these days to complain of a documentary being too brief. But this was an exception”
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CriticsThe Truth About Cosmetic Treatments
“You have seen at least 80% of this programme in some shape or form at least 1,000 times before”
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CriticsHarry Hill’s World of TV
“Hill’s comedic analysis of soap operas was like a sort of unhinged Mark Kermode film thesis”
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CriticsCan Sex Offenders Change?
“The intelligent way Becky Southworth handled this film marked her out as a significant talent”
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CriticsManctopia: Billion Pound Property Boom
“This was a revealing programme that managed to say much about a big problem.”
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CriticsLovecraft Country
“Lovecraft Country is a beautiful bounty of black creativity and black history.”
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CriticsInside Missguided
“Ambition radiates from the screen as the mainly female staff devote their lives to the sale of bodycon dresses.”
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CriticsCuba: Castro vs the World
“This was a very watchable slice of history, marred by its rather too rose-tinted portrait of its ruthless and uncompromising subject”
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CriticsThe Yorkshire Jobcentre
“It was strong stuff thanks to cracking case studies on both sides of the desk”
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CriticsRolling In It
“A fun concept, though I could have been watching pretty much any Saturday evening gameshow”