All Critics articles – Page 83
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Being Blacker; Jane; The Repair Shop
“A big, beautiful sprawl of a film, that spans continents as well as generations”
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Still Game; Not Going Out; Civilisations
“A sharp-witted, old-school sitcom, but with an original twist”
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Lucy Worsley’s Fireworks for a Tudor Queen
“Perky history with an explosive finale, but overlong at 90 minutes”
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The Seven Year Switch
”A marginally less tawdry version of C5’s gruesome Love Island knock-off, Make or Break. It’ll probably do well”
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Collateral; Imagine; Marcella; Action Team
“This was a rather bleak, unsatisfying and empty conclusion to the saga”
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Churchill’s Secret Affair
“It’s a bloody good story. Outrageous toffs, adultery, fascists – what more could you want?”
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The Assassination of Gianni Versace
“A lush, gossipy tour de force that dazzles and tantalises in equal measure”
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Amazing Hotels; 100 Years Younger in 21 Days
“It was an amazing hotel, for sure, but we didn’t see much of the life beyond the lobby, beyond exactly what the hotel wanted us to see.”
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Strike: Career of Evil; Top Gear
“Manages to be modern yet old-fashioned, discomfiting yet cosy, absurd yet plausible. If you ask me we’ve found our next great TV detective”
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Young Sheldon
“It’s all as sentimental as country music, and a reminder that there’s nothing quite as insufferable as an American TV child”
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Murdered for Love? Samia Shahid
“This was certainly TV with a sense of consequence and purpose”
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Mum, Here and Now, Working with Weinstein
“The humour is in the way the characters love each other, even when they’re being most hurtful”
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Troy: Fall of a City
“Those hoping to see some death and decapitation may have to hold onto their Trojan horses for a while longer.”
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The Job Interview
“Essentially a positive show and thus a pale imitation of the dream-crushing, soul-destroying, oft-humiliating reality”