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Nancy Banks-Smith

Nancy Banks-Smith's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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EDIT “Pennies From Heaven is delicious, delightful and de-lovely with a dark undertow and runs for six weeks, so aren't you lucky?” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Master of a Good Name (2014) EDIT “It often looked beautiful with the old gold of something that has hung too long in a smoky room. Ah, gaslight, if you are of a sentimental turn. Ah, mutton, if you are not. And it was inventive.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review EDIT “You can settle down with an Attenborough as you can with an Agatha, knowing it is going to be all right.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review EDIT “I enjoyed every spectacular, sodden second of it.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review All You Need Is Cash (1978) 92% EDIT “! have forgotten the whole show effortlessly. However, I have a faithful... notebook which rescues me in such quandaries and it says here "he wore swimming trunks in the bath to stop him looking down on the unemployed." Oh, now I remember why I forgot.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Frankenstein (1984) EDIT “"I," he cries passionately, "am a scientist!" Robert Powell's passionate vibrato and flashing eyes indicated clearly that this line should have read, " I am an actor! "” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review EDIT “A bracing mixture of evolution, atheism and empathy.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Flood (2007) EDIT “You will enjoy every hour of it. It does go on a bit.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review The Doctor Who Hears Voices (2008) EDIT “The documentary and dramatised sections fitted together like clasped hands.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review City of Vice (2008) EDIT “The series looks gravelled for cash but compensates with documentary direction and Ian McDairmid's voice, as rich as a liqueur.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Britz (2007) EDIT “Britz is a rarity, a contemporary drama that credits viewers with patience and curiosity.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review EDIT “It was quite sweet and chucklesome, and there was a blood-stirring mercy dash with a sick owl.” – Guardian Feb 28, 2020 Full Review EDIT “It was disjointed to the end. A real judge made one decision and the scriptwriter overrode it.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review EDIT “The cast was strikingly strong - don't miss David Bamber's excruciated face as a tormented homosexual - but essentially it was a two-hander between Wolfenden and his gay, difficult, brilliant son.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Fanny Hill (2007) EDIT “Fanny Hill as dramatised by Andrew Davies was unexpectedly fresh and charming, having been very much cleaned up for television.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Clapham Junction (2007) EDIT “It is very well done and well worth watching.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Wind in the Willows (2006) EDIT “I am resistant to Matt Lucas as some germs are to antibiotics - it's not the germ's fault nor the antibiotic's - but, like all comics, he can act.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Lilies (2007) EDIT “It's a pastel period piece. The men, never the women, are given some charmingly lyrical declarations of love, the supporting roles are particularly well played and the detail is diligent.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Death of a President (2006) 40% EDIT “This beautifully made film was seamlessly woven with a warp of drama and a woof of newsreel. The drama to come made the newsreel of [George W.] Bush utterly gripping.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Longford (2006) 100% EDIT “Jim Broadbent perfectly captured Lord Longford's ability to get it all a bit wrong.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Prime Suspect 7: The Final Act (2006) EDIT “Prime Suspect is a great cut-and-come-again cake. Any random slice is good.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Mysterious Creatures (2006) EDIT “This should, if anything, have been a serious documentary about unclassifiable mental illness.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Beau Brummell: This Charming Man (2006) EDIT “Beau Brummell: This Charming Man was exquisite to see and very easy to enjoy.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review The Chatterley Affair (2007) EDIT “It skimmed along delightfully.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa! (2006) EDIT “Michael Sheen played Williams, a striking tour de force for which the poor man lost two stone, and the photography was lyrical.” – Guardian Feb 27, 2020 Full Review
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