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Sean O'Grady

Sean O'Grady's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Partygate (2023) 91% 4/5 EDIT “The hypocrisy and amorality of the Downing Street gang is laid bare in painful fashion.” – Independent (UK) Oct 6, 2023 Full Review My Name Is Leon (2022) 88% 4/5 EDIT “My Name is Leon, a dramatisation of the novel by Kit De Waal, is just incredibly moving. Yet it also seems curiously, frustratingly unfinished.” – Independent (UK) Jun 14, 2022 Full Review Floodlights (2022) 4/5 EDIT “Jonas Armstrong is simply brilliant in the role, oozing arrogance and vanity, and replicating how a predatory and insatiable paedophile was able to operate “in plain sight”. He’s an evil, grinning apparition in a tracksuit, with a tan and a poodle perm.” – Independent (UK) May 19, 2022 Full Review Then Barbara Met Alan (2022) 5/5 EDIT “Wittily written by Jack Thorne and Genevieve Barr, with plenty of raucous action, Then Barbara Met Alan is as much a moving love story and wryly amusing sitcom as it is an emotionally charged chronicle of a small revolution. ” – Independent (UK) Mar 25, 2022 Full Review Grenfell: The Untold Story (2021) 4/5 EDIT “We see the arguments grow ever more acrimonious, and the general impression (allowing for editing, admittedly) is that the residents were continually being given the runaround.” – Independent (UK) Sep 13, 2021 Full Review Children of 9/11: Our Story (2021) 4/5 EDIT “Even at two hours, it is a documentary that succeeds in holding the attention, because you want to know what happened next - but what happened next is usually quite normal for any Gen Z kid.” – Independent (UK) Aug 19, 2021 Full Review The Riots 2011: One Week in August (2021) 4/5 EDIT “The BBC's documentary about the UK's most widespread riots in a quarter-century - if not longer - gauges that sense of immediacy (and, frankly, danger), but also lends a sense of perspective.” – Independent (UK) Aug 11, 2021 Full Review Diana (2021) 80% 4/5 EDIT “The Diana filmmakers get themselves their own very good story, if anything restoring the credibility of Bashir's journalism.” – Independent (UK) Jun 28, 2021 Full Review Joey Essex: Grief and Me (2021) 4/5 EDIT “It is a sort-of-happy, sort-of-ending to a painful journey. "Reality" doesn't get more real than what Joey has been through.” – Independent (UK) Jun 8, 2021 Full Review Ian Wright: Home Truths (2021) 4/5 EDIT “Wright is on a journey of understanding, and it was impressive to see this serious, sombre side of him.” – Independent (UK) May 19, 2021 Full Review Happy Birthday Mr Bean (2021) 4/5 EDIT “The Beanfeast was all about Bean, and therefore Atkinson, which is fair enough. He deserves it. For Not the Nine O'Clock News, Blackadder, Bean, Johnny English, Maigret and much else.” – Independent (UK) Jan 22, 2021 Full Review Prince William: A Planet for Us All (2020) 4/5 EDIT “William, in his gentle, charming, unassuming way, is becoming quite an adept TV presenter.” – Independent (UK) Oct 7, 2020 Full Review Sitting in Limbo (2020) 100% 5/5 EDIT “A gripping, upsetting and tenderly told dramatic memoir of one man's ordeal during the Windrush scandal. Its timing could not have been better.” – Independent (UK) Jun 9, 2020 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “One of the documentary's most remarkable moments features a grassroots football team in Northampton called Sands United, which is comprised entirely of fathers who have lost a child.” – Independent (UK) May 29, 2020 Full Review In the Pool (2005) 4/5 EDIT “It is hard to resist.” – Independent (UK) Feb 10, 2020 Full Review The Windermere Children (2020) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It is rare indeed to find a television dramatisation, even one concerned, as here, with the Holocaust, that exercises such a raw emotional power.” – Independent (UK) Jan 28, 2020 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “Kuenssberg is mostly too busy to reflect. But when she finds time to confide to the camera, the judgements are shrewd.” – Independent (UK) Dec 20, 2019 Full Review 4/5 EDIT “Certainly if you want to understand what is happening in Hong Kong today, it is essential viewing.” – Independent (UK) Oct 2, 2019 Full Review 5/5 EDIT “The access secured by filmmaker Patrick Forbes was breathtaking, and the lack of restraint among the Tory parliamentarians quite stunning to behold.” – Independent (UK) Sep 26, 2019 Full Review How to Break Into Yiddish Vaudeville (2014) 4/5 EDIT “[Amol Rajan is] ideally qualified to ask some very uncomfortable questions about who is still getting the top jobs in Britain, and why.” – Independent (UK) Jul 30, 2019 Full Review 3/5 EDIT “Still, full marks for going out and about with a Havering local government officer to catch catchment cheats, and for confronting a drippy Lewisham Labour councillor named Joe Dromey about social housing.” – Independent (UK) Jul 24, 2019 Full Review 5/5 EDIT “A tremendously sad, strange story then, and just as unfathomable today.” – Independent (UK) Apr 3, 2019 Full Review 5/5 EDIT “Easily the best thing to emerge from the whole brexit imbroglio. OK, not much competition, but still...” – Independent (UK) Mar 27, 2019 Full Review The Satanic Verses: 30 Years On (2019) 100% 3/5 EDIT “All of the discussions led by Azhar about the affair's impact are balanced and measured - except at the end of the film, when things get a bit heated.” – Independent (UK) Feb 28, 2019 Full Review 5/5 EDIT “Channel 4 scores a remarkable achievement, and one immensely in the public interest, with this unprecedented access to life inside a British women's refuge.” – Independent (UK) Feb 28, 2019 Full Review
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