All Critics articles – Page 84
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CriticsInsha’Allah Democracy
“It is a fascinating mess – and maybe that is the perfect approach, given the subject matter”
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CriticsOur Shirley Valentine Summer
“More naked confessions, and fewer sham romances, would make this a much better format”
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CriticsKilled By My Debt
“It was outstanding. It was also enraging, horrifying and painful to watch.”
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CriticsWho Is America?
“It certainly reminded us who Sacha Baron Cohen is: one of the most merciless and subversive satirists at work today”
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NewsWho Is America?: the verdict from the US
Sacha Baron Cohen’s most savage work since Borat or a nadir to rival Grimsby? Critics are divided on the comic’s return to TV after 14 years
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CriticsKeeping Faith
“Began atrociously, got a bit worse, then suddenly became terrific and ended with me chomping for the second episode”
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CriticsPicnic at Hanging Rock
“They haven’t adapted the book into a TV series so much as turned it into a perfume ad.”
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CriticsHorizon: How to Build a Time Machine
“It was depressing to see how many amazingly intelligent people were completely wasting their careers and funding”
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CriticsSharp Objects
“It is altogether mean, moody and magnificent and a fine addition to the gathering tide of female-led and female-driven dramas”
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CriticsWorld’s Tiniest Masterpieces
“This portrait of an extraordinary artist was television with a true sense of wonder.”
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CriticsNando’s: A Peri Peri Big Success
“If Nando’s: A Peri Peri Big Success had been a meal, I’d have sent it back to the kitchen”
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CriticsRich Hall’s Working for the American Dream
“Even in the canon of his 90-minute thinkpieces, this was something else”
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CriticsThe NHS: A People’s History
“It was an eloquent, honest eulogy showing the NHS’s beneficent brilliance”
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CriticsThe Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan
“On this evidence, he could carve out a niche as a sort of potty-mouthed Michael Palin”
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CriticsCelebrities on the NHS Front Line
“It was all very moving but nothing that couldn’t have been achieved celebrity-free”