All Critics articles – Page 74
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Horizon: The Contraceptive Pill: How Safe Is It?
“An informative, thoroughly- researched and perhaps even too data-dense film”
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The Final Table
“Imagine a cooking programme so bombastic it makes Gordon Ramsay’s latest look like Lark Rise to Candleford”
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Inside the Foreign Office
“It is, technically, an exciting time to be an international diplomat. The problem is that this is just not very thrilling to watch”
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Stacey Dooley
“Dooley reaches parts of society that other documentary-makers would struggle to”
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Liam Bakes
“While Liam Bakes may not be the most demanding of TV cookery shows, it’s among the more enjoyable.”
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WWI: The Final Hours
“How much more engaging than any dry textbook is this continuing buffet of quality documentaries?”
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Killer By the Lake
“Like a lot of the European dramas featured in Channel 4’s Walter Presents strand, it is pleasantly bewildering.”
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Doing Money
“From start to finish it was hardcore, unrelenting misery. It was also outstanding”
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Louis Theroux’s Altered States
“This was an hour with few fireworks, yet still thoughtful and surreptitiously profound.”
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Dark Heart
“There’s plenty to sustain interest, but in this opening story I’m also sensing potential for it to get a bit silly.”
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The Great British Bake Off
“As friends and family gathered for the traditional end-of-series garden party, another triumphant contest built to a rousing crescendo.”
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True Horror: The Witches' Prison
“Neither revelatory enough to work as documentary, nor narratively engaging enough to work as drama, it fell awkwardly between two genres.”
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The Little Drummer Girl
“It’s all brilliantly, beautifully done and the dialogue sounds as good as everything else looks”