All Critics articles – Page 99
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CriticsWho Do You Think You Are?; Grand Designs; Black Nurses
“Enlightening and uplifting, this was popular history at its finest, not to mention funniest.”
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CriticsKids On The Edge; Black and British; This Time Next Year
“It was impossible not to be profoundly moved by the children of Gloucester House and to hope the help hadn’t come too late.”
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CriticsOne Killer Punch; What Britain Earns; MasterChef: The Professionals
“This was a beautifully told and paced film about masculinity, ownership of one’s actions, and guilt.”
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CriticsThe Last Miners; Back in Time for Brixton; Two Doors Down
“A sad-but-spirited documentary which recorded the last death rattle of an industry that was, in reality, killed off years ago.”
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CriticsSold!; Michael McIntyre; Planet Earth II
“It was a thoroughly compelling documentary even if, at times, it did feel like Christie’s has become a Toys R Us for billionaires.”
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CriticsThe Grand Tour; Bob and Roberta’s Excellent Protest Adventure
“Petrolheads can rejoice. The BBC may wonder how Matt LeBlanc and whoever joins him next year can possibly compete.”
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CriticsKids on the Edge; The Undiscovered Peter Cook; Tenable
“There were no answers in this film, which, for all its good intentions, was frustratingly inconclusive.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Ordinary Lies; Prison, My Parents and Me
“Danny Brocklehurst’s episodic serial is one of the best dramas on television this autumn.”
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CriticsTV Critics: NW; Penny Blacks and Twopenny Blues
“This was a powerful, chastening contribution to the BBC’s Black and British season.”
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CriticsTV Critics: My Mother and Other Strangers; Deep Water
“This is wistful, romantic, Sunday-night costume drama that doesn’t quite fill the void left by Poldark.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Close to the Enemy; The Secret Life of Prisons
“It’s bold, and beautiful, haunting, clever and original.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Black and British; Britain’s Adoption Scandal
“David Olusoga excavates our shared heritage with humanity and verve.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Secret Life of 4-Year-Olds; MasterChef; Divorce; Crime and Punishment
“You can learn more about life and compromise from this programme than from 18 months following the American elections.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Damilola; Rich Hall’s Presidential Grudge Match; Dark Angel
“This terrific piece of TV was a fitting tribute to them all.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Planet Earth II; Poldark; China: Between Clouds and Dreams; Tutankhamun
“This kind of jaw-dropping, eye-opening television is exactly what makes the licence fee such a bargain.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Gun Shop; Conspiracy Files; Bublé at the BBC
“It made me very, very relieved to be living in a country that has strict gun control.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Television’s Opening Night; This Time Next Year; Unarmed Black Male
“The 80th-anniversary documentary was overlong and over-technical, but brilliantly recreated the tension of that first night.”
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CriticsTV Critics: The Choir; Storyville; The Moonstone; Ordinary Lies
“By the time Mums in Durham are at the miner’s welfare centre belting out Billy Joel’s She’s Always a Woman to Me to their weeping children, husbands and nans, I’m sold.”
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CriticsTV Critics: Dark Angel; Moonstone; Ice Train To Nowhere
“This is what Downton might have been like, if its creator Lord Julian Fellowes had been an Islington Leftie.”
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