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James Walton

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Bad Tidings (2024) “Viewed objectively, Bad Tidings is drama by numbers of the most blatant kind. Viewed pleasantly drunk, I concede, it might just hit the spot.” – The Spectator Dec 19, 2024 Full Review The Truth vs. Alex Jones (2024) 100% “On the whole, the programme let the facts, the parents’ anguish and the hideousness of Jones and his allies speak for themselves -- which duly made for a grim and enraging watch. ” – The Spectator Jun 13, 2024 Full Review Let It Be (1970) 81% “Let It Be definitely offers far more such smiles and moments than its gloomy reputation could ever have led us to expect.” – The Spectator May 16, 2024 Full Review Partygate (2023) 91% “In a rare challenge to the law of diminishing returns, the more it pounded away with its sledgehammer, the more effective it became.” – The Spectator Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Consent (2023) 50% “The author’s message -- urgent if not wildly surprising -- comprehensively overrode such considerations as making much narrative sense.” – The Spectator Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Christmas Carole (2022) “Despite the infectious fun it continues to have, where the programme really triumphs is in the sadder moments. Like Dickens, it makes no bones about manipulating our feelings -- but, like him too, it does so in a way that’s impossible to resist. ” – The Spectator Dec 20, 2022 Full Review The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022) 75% “Mackesy’s film is clearly hoping to join The Snowman as a tear-jerking Christmas classic. The trouble is that this hope is so nakedly, even desperately apparent on screen -- with the programme practically begging us to find it both charming and touching.” – The Spectator Dec 15, 2022 Full Review Citizen Ashe (2021) 97% “If the result never entirely convinced us that its subject measures up to our exacting modern standards, it left us in no doubt that the reverence was justified.” – The Spectator Jun 30, 2022 Full Review Ricky Gervais: SuperNature (2022) 31% “The guy is just an achingly conventional millennial posing as a naughty maverick.” – The Spectator Jun 9, 2022 Full Review Floodlights (2022) “Any dramatisation of the life of Andy Woodward was likely to pack something of an emotional punch. BBC2’s extraordinary Floodlights, though, pinned us to the sofa from first minute to last.” – The Spectator May 19, 2022 Full Review Then Barbara Met Alan (2022) “The most obvious flaw was that it never solved the traditional problems that come with writing agitprop: among them, relentlessness, lack of nuance and how to make the audience not feel they’re constantly being shouted at.” – The Spectator Mar 24, 2022 Full Review Being Frank: The Frank Gardner Story (2020) “Courageous, often startlingly candid.” – The Spectator Jul 19, 2021 Full Review Together (2021) 71% “Dennis Kelly's darkly witty script also benefited hugely from Horgan and McEvoy's brilliant, naturalistic performances, which covered up all but the creakiest of moments.” – The Spectator Jul 19, 2021 Full Review You Don't Know Jack (2010) 83% “Should make for a fascinating and nicely tangled story. The trouble was that the programme turned it into a straight fight between goodies and baddies.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Aug 10, 2020 Full Review My Boy Jack (2007) 71% “Radcliffe created an entirely convincing sense of a young man trying unconvincingly not to be scared - and doing his unconvincing best to impersonate a grown-up.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Feb 25, 2020 Full Review King Lear (2018) 91% “And naturally, with Hopkins on board, the rest of the cast was pretty terrific as well - to the point of unexpectedly turning King Lear into something of an ensemble piece.” – The Spectator Nov 26, 2019 Full Review The Scandalous Lady W (2015) 2/5 “By sticking with the usual notion of a courageous, passionate woman triumphing over the forces of sexism, last night's programme proved that even the raciest costume drama can be psychologically bland.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 10, 2018 Full Review Small Island (2009) “Yet, whenever another returns, it has such an instantly deadening effect that if there were a Bafta award for Biggest Miscalculation in an Otherwise Solid Drama, Small Island would surely be a shoo-in for this year's.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 10, 2018 Full Review The Mummy of Tutankhamun (2017) “[Tutankhamun] is lavishly produced, but distinctly corny.” – The Spectator Sep 6, 2018 Full Review Against the Law (2017) 100% “In the central role, Daniel Mays captured Wildeblood's reluctant journey into the spotlight perfectly.” – The Spectator Sep 6, 2018 Full Review Naples '44 (2017) 63% “At first, this mosaic technique was a little distracting. But soon it started to create a hallucinatory quality that felt entirely appropriate for a city where humanity was reduced to something approaching the elemental.” – The Spectator Sep 5, 2018 Full Review Crooked House (2017) 57% “Even so, after a while you can't help noticing that, rather unusually for a Christie adaptation, not a great deal is happening plot-wise, with the programme not so much gripping us as drifting pleasantly by.” – The Spectator Sep 5, 2018 Full Review The Sex Robots Are Coming (2017) “For all its eye-popping content, The Sex Robots Are Coming was at heart a conventional documentary.” – The Spectator Sep 5, 2018 Full Review Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami (2017) 87% “Certainly, one reaction I had after seeing Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami was a strong desire to see a documentary about Grace Jones.” – The Spectator Oct 26, 2017 Full Review
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