Ben Dowell
Ben Dowell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
Times (UK)
Radio Times
Movies reviews only
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David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count (2022) |
This smart, impressive programme left you with an abiding sense that the most dangerous people in today’s world aren’t just those on the racist right but also those who are so convinced of their own correct-thinking virtue... - Times (UK)
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| Posted Nov 22, 2022
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Life Is Beautiful (1997) |
Schmaltzy, treacly, saccharine — call it what you like, if you’re not blubbing by the end, check your pulse. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Sep 20, 2022
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The Eiger Sanction (1975) |
The scenery is magnificent and the white-knuckle action well handled... - Times (UK)
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| Posted Aug 08, 2022
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River (2021) |
You would be forgiven for feeling that this is a little pretentious at times, but there is also something hugely seductive about a transportive slow TV viewing experience... - Times (UK)
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| Posted Jul 25, 2022
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Citizen Ashe (2021) |
Eye-opening... - Times (UK)
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| Posted Jun 28, 2022
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Little Girl (2020) |
The exquisite intensity, tenderness and occasional moments of anger did not let up and Lifshitz's film-making was often sublime. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Jul 02, 2021
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Offended by Irvine Welsh (2020) |
Welsh probed and prodded with great warmth, intelligence and skill, but Offended By Irvine Welsh was more of an essay with a through-line that rarely deviated. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Nov 18, 2020
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The Night Notre Dame Burned (2020) |
Unlike poor old Quasimodo, the great lady was saved from destruction. Yet the extraordinary thing about The Night Notre-Dame Burned was that one felt an acute heart-in-mouth fear that things might not turn out that way. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Nov 18, 2020
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The Real Eastenders (2020) |
Where this film triumphed was in its raw profiles of real rather than fantasy families. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Aug 11, 2020
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Anthony (2020) |
It was powerful stuff and unlike anything I've seen before. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Aug 03, 2020
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It was like an exhibition of student posters come to life - Sex Pistols imagery... and calls to be "cool like Fonzies". All slightly juvenile and tedious, yes, but this programme, with its whizzy graphics and guitar soundtrack, was a sucker for it. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Mar 19, 2020
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Hannah Berryman's engaging documentary about the night that heralded feminism's explosion into the mainstream was actually finely balanced. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Mar 17, 2020
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The image of this strange, hugely likeable woman - workmanlike and slightly ethereal, eccentric but no-nonsense - scurrying to her flat near her home on the Devon coast was delightful. - Times (UK)
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| Posted Mar 13, 2020
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