The House Across the Street; The Fire Within; Behind the Rage; Untold: Inside the Shein Machine

“Don’t come here expecting any levity — there’s not a sliver. It is a dark, psychological deep dive into troubled souls. But one done with an artful intensity. As a study of loneliness, insanity and human obsession, it is grim but moreish.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“The House Across the Street doesn’t build to a brilliant finale. It crams far too much into its final episode and goes a little bit too mad. But it’s not too bad. Netflix parodied this sort of thing in The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window, and they can never be taken too seriously, but this one has a pleasingly off-kilter tone.”
Anita Singh, The Telegraph

“That generic title tells you all you need to know: there’s a missing child, a single mother, friends she can’t trust, secret alcoholics, all the ingredients of a domestic thriller-by-numbers.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“The House Across the Street combined sharply observed characters with a genuinely compelling concept. While some of the dialogue veered a little too close to exposition to be convincing, the drama’s well-paced intrigue made its script’s occasional clangers feel forgivable.”
Emily Watkins, The i

“The Kraffts’ story was featured in Into the Inferno, a 2016 offering from the German director Werner Herzog. Now Herzog has returned to them in The Fire Within, which is subtitled Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft. Having not seen Fire of Love, I found Herzog’s film frustrating for its lack of information about the couple; I wanted to understand what drove them. But that was not his aim. Herzog has shown the Kraffts’ stunning footage to the world; from the little we learn of the couple here, that is exactly what they would have wanted.”
Anita Singh, The Telegraph

“Rivers of pink and purple lava, blotched with black, writhed like dragons from The Lord Of The Rings. Sheets of lava broader than football fields melted and folded into each other like dough. Nothing quite like it has been seen on television before — and few in Pompeii, or anywhere else, have seen it and lived to tell the tale.”
Christopher Stevens, Daily Mail

“The award-winning director Deeyah Khan’s documentary Behind the Rage: America’s Domestic Violence was as sickening as it was excellent, asking wife-beaters and killers what they did and why they did it.”
Carol Midgley, The Times

“Untold does some good, hard legwork in sequences that nevertheless do not make for arresting television because all sweatshop exposés are the same: the company says it has strict policies on welfare; a journalist gets a job in one of the factories, turning up for work wearing a hidden camera; footage of worker rights and safety being trampled on is obtained. Then the company issues a statement promising to investigate.”
Jack Seale, The Guardian