All Critics articles – Page 66
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CriticsThe Queen’s Lost Family
“It was a jumble of bright, weirdly dissociated details, making up only a vaguely coherent whole”
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CriticsJade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain
“A fair and nuanced portrait of Goody and the machinery that surrounded her.”
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CriticsBorn Famous: Gordon Ramsay
“It wasn’t celebrity culture that got shamed here, but a society which has turned its back on vulnerable children”
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CriticsThe Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk
“To call it ‘mad’ is like calling Caligula ‘a bit nudey’. It is batshit crazy”
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CriticsPortillo: The Trouble with the Tories
“After two decades of railway journeys and appearances on This Week, Michael Portillo has finally made the television programme he was born to make”
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CriticsThe Best Little Prison in Britain
“The title jauntily evokes a fictional Texan whorehouse, which feels a tad inappropriate before we’ve even started”
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CriticsHow to Break into the Elite, BBC2
”Astute and depressing because it confirmed what I imagine many already suspected.”
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CriticsThe Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan
“Romesh Ranganathan has nailed the celebrity travel documentary. No other celebs need bother trying.”
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CriticsAnimal Babies: First Year on Earth
“The visuals were sumptuous and the sense of intimacy occasionally extraordinary, yet there was little sense of genuine jeopardy”
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CriticsWho Do You Think You Are?
“The genealogy stalwart, now on its 16th series and fresh from another Bafta win, remains consistently superb”
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CriticsA Cut Too Far? Male Circumcision
“An open-minded, generous-hearted look at an underexamined subject”
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CriticsInside the Social Network
“I was constantly reminded of the smile on the face of Orwell’s Big Brother.”