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Ed Cumming

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The Tinder Swindler (2022) 97% 4/5 EDIT “Despite the great yarn at its centre, as a film, The Tinder Swindler sometimes lapses into the self-indulgence common to so many modern documentaries, with endless shadowy reconstructions and a heart-tugging soundtrack.” – Independent (UK) Feb 7, 2022 Full Review The Trick (2021) 2/5 EDIT “If the people in your show are less interesting than tree rings and thermometer readings, something's gone awry.” – Independent (UK) Oct 19, 2021 Full Review Help (2021) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Forget the grand gestures; Help's at its best when it trusts its cast with the little unremembered acts of kindness and love that endured despite it all. With this subject matter, Graham and Comer are all the assistance you need.” – Independent (UK) Sep 18, 2021 Full Review Together (2021) 71% 4/5 EDIT “When Together is good, you cannot take your eyes off it.” – Independent (UK) Jun 23, 2021 Full Review Danny Boy (2021) 70% 3/5 EDIT “In less subtle hands, this kind of real-life courtroom battle could easily descend into a dry procession of facts. That it doesn't is credit to [Robert] Jones's writing... as well as strong lead performances.” – Independent (UK) May 15, 2021 Full Review Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death (2021) 100% 3/5 EDIT “An effective, traditional hour-long documentary remembering the TV presenter.” – Independent (UK) Mar 18, 2021 Full Review Katie Price: Harvey and Me (2021) 3/5 EDIT “The difficulties for a child like Harvey don't end...and that caring for them is a lifelong duty. The parents - usually mothers, to judge by the interviews here - deserve every ounce of sympathy and support.” – Independent (UK) Feb 5, 2021 Full Review Pandemonium (2020) 4/5 EDIT “Pandemonium is a valiant effort at the tightrope act of exploiting the humour of the predicament without making light of it.” – Independent (UK) Jan 6, 2021 Full Review Death to 2020 (2020) 45% 1/5 EDIT “You feel for Grant, not given a single decent line, and several that make you want to slide under the sofa. The credits list 18 writers. How many of them did it take to come up with the idea that Joe Biden is old?” – Independent (UK) Dec 28, 2020 Full Review Marcus Rashford: Feeding Britain's Children (2020) 4/5 EDIT “The country should be proud of [Marcus Rashford's] work, and embarrassed that it's necessary.” – Independent (UK) Dec 22, 2020 Full Review David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) 96% 5/5 EDIT “I found it unexpectedly moving, not only for the loss on the Earth, but for the amount of my own life I can measure in Attenborough documentaries.” – Independent (UK) Oct 1, 2020 Full Review In Cold Blood (2020) 5/5 EDIT “It's simple but effective, and refreshing at a time when so many documentaries can't resist the urge to dress everything up with distracting music and graphics and funky timelines.” – Independent (UK) Sep 30, 2020 Full Review Too Big to Fail (2011) 77% EDIT “As a documentary, Too Big to Fail was excellent, with credible performances, a taut script and the expected HBO varnish. As a drama, its flaw was that for all the alpha male hubris on display, there was no redemptive suffering.” – Daily Telegraph (UK) Sep 1, 2020 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “There is a moving, thoughtful film in here, about masculinity, sex, sexuality, gender, race, abuse, but it's all about the "I". The penis is a distraction.” – Independent (UK) Sep 1, 2020 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “Compared to some of what's been served up lately, Derren Brown: 20 Years of Mind Control is a rich imaginative feast.” – Independent (UK) Aug 18, 2020 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “At times it feels like an opportunity for attention-starved celebrities to bang on about their ailments. It's heartening that they've had positive experiences, but medical conditions rarely make for compelling conversation.” – Independent (UK) Jul 24, 2020 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “It's mad, uneven and sometimes hilarious.” – Independent (UK) Jul 6, 2020 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “Memories of a potent era for British foreign affairs... The ramifications of the operation are still being felt today, from Gaza to Yemen, a trail of bloodshed and misery lasting nearly 70 years.” – Independent (UK) Jun 15, 2020 Full Review Ali & Cavett: The Tale of the Tapes (2018) 78% 3/5 EDIT “While The Tale of the Tapes doesn't teach us much, it underlines Ali's gift for entertaining.” – Independent (UK) Jun 1, 2020 Full Review 2/5 EDIT “Sadly, as anyone who's had to sit through someone else's wedding video knows, parties are more fun to be at than to watch afterwards.” – Independent (UK) May 4, 2020 Full Review Lost Lives (2019) 4/5 EDIT “The aggregate effect is undoubtedly powerful, but Lost Lives has its limitations as a piece of filmmaking.” – Independent (UK) Mar 9, 2020 Full Review Greed (2019) 50% 1/5 EDIT “Greed wants to have its cheap giggles and its Serious Message, and fails at both.” – Independent (UK) Feb 19, 2020 Full Review A Christmas Carol (2018) 52% 3/5 EDIT “It ought to be too hammy to hang together, and it would probably have worked as a one-off film rather than the full three-hour mini-series, but I found myself watching, mainly due to the central performances.” – Independent (UK) Dec 23, 2019 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “There is a kind of frictionless pleasure in hearing snippets of old songs, and Elton rattling through toupee-raising tales, costume dramas and binges with Beatles.” – Independent (UK) Dec 3, 2019 Full Review The Day We Walked On The Moon (2019) 2/5 EDIT “Generic anniversary fodder of the purest kind.” – Independent (UK) Jul 18, 2019 Full Review
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