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365 Days: This Day has bad sex and worse dialogue
This Polish erotic thriller is such an oddity it will make you question whether it's actually a film at all
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The dance macabre: the ugliness and beauty of ballet
A new Netflix film is a worthy and sometimes dazzling new addition to the canon of horrifying ballet depictions
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The cost of free love: Dirty Lines rings true
Netflix's new Amsterdam-set drama addresses the potential tedium of over-familiarity with sex, as well as its liberatory capacities
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The show that started a TV toga party
I, Claudius is remembered as a BBC classic, but it started a trend for historical European-set dramas with extra helpings of sex and violence
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Hidden: a cop show that cares
This Welsh detective drama is a restorative tonic to the kind of frantic television seen elsewhere
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Why Standing Up is a seriously lovable addition to the comedian canon
The actual stand-up in Netflix's new dramedy is rarely as funny as it is supposed to be, but the characters are so vivid it barely matters
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Queer Eye Germany – the spin-off with soul
The German version of Netflix's hit makeover series looks cheaper and more like a world I can recognise, says MEGAN NOLAN
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The downward Spiral: this French thriller doesn’t quite hold together
The Promise has an excellent cast but the plot is subsumed by the standard demands of a detective show
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High infidelity: Cheaters is a truly special show
A new romantic comedy series is warm and funny without undermining the seriousness beneath its central questions
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Why Inventing Anna is not faking good enough
Despite all the artistic licence in the world and interesting source material this Netflix series is over-long, draining and empty to watch
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Ski Sunday: The show that sent Britain downhill fast
With Briton Dave Ryding going for gold in Beijing, now's the perfect time to celebrate the 44 years of a BBC institution
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Netflix’s Four to Dinner gives us love in the multiverse
A Netflix film poses a pivotal question – are any two people meant to be together, or is it just a matter of timing?
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How Dougal and the Blue Cat became a glorious advert for pan-European eccentricity
Fifty years on from the flop film version
that became a cult classic, taking
another ride along with the psychedelic
French-British TV sensation for kids
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Over 50 years on, the sexism and double standards in A Very British Scandal are still with us
The BBC’s three-part dramatisation of the notorious case of Argyll v Argyll is a scandalous tale of egoism and hypocrisy.
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Impeachment: American Crime Story shows how Monica Lewinsky was demonised
Aspects of the show depicting the Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky affair seem so odd, different and plainly wrong that it feels like science fiction.
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Multicultural Man: On The Great British Bake Off
WILL SELF on the politics behind the nation's beloved baking show.
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Maid is not made to enjoy, but to admire
The story carefully, and cleverly, portrays domestic abuse, making it one of the more worthwhile Netflix originals of late
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Idle gossip comes from the idle rich
An attempt to breathe new life into the American drama from the noughties falls short
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Ridley Road shows when Britain’s Nazis rallied together
New BBC series Ridley Road shines an uncomfortable light on the UK’s fascist revival, which took place
less than 20 years after the
end of the war.
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Multicultural Man: On trash TV
WILL SELF on reality TV programmes that are so bad, they're good
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Nine Perfect Strangers is far from perfectly pitched
The show has a glittering cast, dripping in talent. But, this all comes together to amount to nothing, writes MEGAN NOLAN
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The White Lotus shows a bitter suite symphony on screen
Both Succession and The White Lotus examine how the other half live with a satirical eye which makes for pleasing watching, writes MEGAN NOLAN