>
Anita Singh
Anita Singh's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Publications:
Movies reviews only
| Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
Gary (2024) |
It is a cautionary tale of child stardom, familiar in many respects: disappearing millions, parents and advisors who did not always appear to have his best interests at heart, the job offers drying up in adulthood. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Sep 14, 2024
|
|
|
|
Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (2024) |
The tapes do lend an intimacy. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Aug 12, 2024
|
|
|
|
Wild Wild Space (2024) |
The documentary is as entertaining as it is informative, because people who devote their careers to building rockets tend to be quite interesting. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Aug 12, 2024
|
|
|
|
Atomic People (2024) |
A horrifying watch from start to finish. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Aug 02, 2024
|
|
|
|
Tell Them You Love Me (2023) |
[A] thought-provoking film. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jul 03, 2024
|
|
|
|
Brats (2024) |
The documentary is still a lovely hit of nostalgia, peppered with clips and interviews (Ally Sheedy is sweet, Jon Cryer is funny, Timothy Hutton talks about bees) and includes insights from various contributors as to why the films were so potent. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jul 01, 2024
|
|
|
|
Federer: Twelve Final Days (2024) |
It succeeds as a limited portrait of a decent, deservedly popular champion. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jun 20, 2024
|
|
|
|
Black Barbie (2023) |
Unfortunately, [Davis] and Rhimes have taken what is at times a fun and informative film, and made it self-indulgent, over-long and at times ridiculously po-faced. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jun 20, 2024
|
|
|
|
The Truth vs. Alex Jones (2024) |
The devastating impact of Jones’s conspiracies on families already ripped apart by the Sandy Hook tragedy – which killed 26 – is made clear - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jun 17, 2024
|
|
|
|
Tabby McTat (2023) |
It’s pretty much purrfect (sorry). - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Dec 28, 2023
|
|
|
|
Milli Vanilli (2023) |
It’s an absorbing blend of comedy and tragedy. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Oct 25, 2023
|
|
|
|
Partygate (2023) |
Those responsible for the Downing Street parties deserve all the contempt that is heaped upon them, not a docudrama played for laughs. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Oct 06, 2023
|
|
|
|
Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017) |
Imagine Channel 4’s Coach Trip crossed with an Agatha Christie story, and Johnny Vegas in the driver’s seat. Even the idea of it is funny. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jul 14, 2023
|
|
|
|
Unknown: Killer Robots (2023) |
I had expected the documentary to be chilling, but it was worse than that: it made this AI future feel dully inevitable. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jul 10, 2023
|
|
|
|
The Stones and Brian Jones (2023) |
... An absorbing film which aims to restore Jones to his rightful place as a central figure in the story of The Rolling Stones. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted May 27, 2023
|
|
|
|
Consent (2023) |
This particular drama does feel very basic, though, painted in broad brush strokes to fit into its hour-long running time. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Feb 16, 2023
|
|
|
|
Pamela, a Love Story (2023) |
Generally, though, the documentary is very vanilla. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jan 31, 2023
|
|
|
|
Christmas Carole (2022) |
Carole’s transformation into a lovely person full of the joys of Christmas just… happens... It feels as cheap and flimsy as a paper hat from a cracker. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Dec 29, 2022
|
|
|
|
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse (2022) |
The animation is gorgeous, bringing Mackesy’s ink and watercolour drawings to life... And if watching it feels like drowning in a vat of golden syrup – well, don’t we all overdose on sweet things at Christmas? - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Dec 29, 2022
|
|
|
|
David Baddiel: Jews Don't Count (2022) |
[A] slick, well-argued film... - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Nov 22, 2022
|
|
|
|
The Fire Within: A Requiem for Katia and Maurice Krafft (2022) |
The Kraffts documented their work in hundreds of hours of film; Herzog’s role here is to edit it down, overlaying the other-worldly images with haunting music and his own narration. And what images they are. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Oct 18, 2022
|
|
|
|
Escape from Kabul (2022) |
Director Jamie Roberts specialises in going behind the headlines and speaking to people who were at the heart of a story... He elicits clear and honest interviews from his subjects, such as the Marines on camera here. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Sep 21, 2022
|
|
|
|
My Name Is Leon (2022) |
If this is a show designed to gently introduce older children to tough themes, it feels right. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jun 11, 2022
|
|
|
|
Writing with Fire (2021) |
For a primer on Indian politics, you could do worse than start here. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Mar 10, 2022
|
|
|
|
Robin Robin (2021) |
This is not in the league of Aardman's greatest hits, A Grand Day Out or Chicken Run, but it's warm and fuzzy - quite literally fuzzy, with the stop-motion creatures made of felt and bringing back old memories of Fingerbobs. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Nov 24, 2021
|
|
|
|
Help (2021) |
The centrepiece was a virtuoso piece of directing from Marc Munden that followed Sarah over one hellish night shift. It is shot in the style of a horror film, as one continuous take. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Oct 20, 2021
|
|
|
|
The Trick (2021) |
The story is inherently uncinematic, so any screenplay needed to work hard to hold our attention. What we got was endless exposition and ropy dialogue. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Oct 19, 2021
|
|
|
|
Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (2021) |
Telling the story over 90 minutes allowed the programme to explain the complexities of the movement. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Sep 08, 2021
|
|
|
|
Sparkling: The Story of Champagne (2021) |
Director Frank Mannion had given himself a cushy commission, asking gentle questions while clinking glasses. Bruno Paillard seemed a particularly generous host, opening a bottle outside his chateau. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jul 30, 2021
|
|
|
|
Killing Escobar (2021) |
McAleese was the heart of the film, and we were not invited to admire him - although we were asked to understand him. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jul 20, 2021
|
|
|
|
Diana (2021) |
There will come a time, of course, when people are no longer familiar with the story and documentaries about Diana aren't ten-a-penny, and people will want to learn about her life. Judged on those criteria, the film did a decent job. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jun 28, 2021
|
|
|
|
Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntman (2021) |
Director Jon Spira’s lovingly-made film lets them do the talking, interspersed with clips of their work. And it is glorious. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jun 25, 2021
|
|
|
|
The Return: Life After ISIS (2021) |
What the film did convey though, was that there are young children living in Roj in the most desperate conditions. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jun 16, 2021
|
|
|
|
Danny Boy (2021) |
Writer Robert Jones was interested in ambiguities, but splitting our sympathies between the two protagonists didn't seem to fit with the reality. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted May 17, 2021
|
|
|
|
My Years with The Queen (2021) |
This spilling of the royal beans was scandal-free but entertaining. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted May 12, 2021
|
|
|
|
Cher & the Loneliest Elephant (2021) |
Experts explained that Kavaan's behaviour - rocking from side to side - was a sign of physical and mental distress but the programme was sufficiently sanitised to qualify as family viewing. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Apr 26, 2021
|
|
|
|
Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death (2021) |
The film avoided apportioning blame, and instead presented a nuanced picture of a woman who was so much more fragile than her public persona suggested. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Mar 18, 2021
|
|
|
|
Rhod Gilbert: Stand Up to Infertility (2021) |
Hopefully he's changed his mind, because he has done a great thing by bringing the subject out in the open. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Feb 02, 2021
|
|
|
|
The Mystery of D.B. Cooper (2020) |
It wasn't a film about the identity of DB Cooper, but about the power of myth, the unreliability of memory and our desperation to believe in something. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Dec 31, 2020
|
|
|
|
Welcome to Chechnya (2020) |
Welcome to Chechnya: The Gay Purge. brought home the horror with a dramatic urgency. David France's grimly compelling film was a docu-thriller, with heart-stopping moments as activists spirited people out of the country in clandestine operations. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Dec 30, 2020
|
|
|
|
The Night Notre Dame Burned (2020) |
It was all brought vividly to life in words, photographs and illustrations(one of the surprise interviewees was the Paris fire department sketch artist who accompanied the crew into the building). - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Nov 18, 2020
|
|
|
|
Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020) |
All of the characters' behavior felt a little weird, and it was not clear if that was by accident or design. Some were caricatures while others were barely there. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Oct 09, 2020
|
|
|
|
(undefined) |
Engle talks good interviews out of people. Here, she persuaded those who have never spoken on camera before -- Lord Brittan's wife, Diana, and Beech's ex-wife, Dawn -- to speak candidly about what had happened. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Aug 26, 2020
|
|
|
|
(undefined) |
Wark is a first-class journalist with a cool head, but her investment in this particular story seemed to veer into the personal. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Aug 21, 2020
|
|
|
|
(undefined) |
Perhaps one of the lessons of the programme is that elderly people have fascinating stories to tell, and we should spend more time listening to them. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Aug 20, 2020
|
|
|
|
(undefined) |
It was a clear, compassionate and helpful film. But the main takeaway was that doctors still do not fully understand this virus. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Aug 11, 2020
|
|
|
|
Anthony (2020) |
The brilliance of McGovern's piece was in the structure: an alternative universe imagining the life that Anthony could have lived, told in reverse chronology. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Aug 03, 2020
|
|
|
|
Sitting in Limbo (2020) |
There was a happy ending, if you could call it that: Bryan was allowed to remain in his own country. But the film left us in no doubt about the emotional toll. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Jun 09, 2020
|
|
|
|
The Tiger Who Came to Tea (2019) |
Child actor Clara Ross was a lovely, natural Sophie. The rest of the cast, including Tamsin Greig and Benedict Cumberbatch, were understated. Even the Robbie Williams song was pleasingly restrained. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Dec 31, 2019
|
|
|
|
(undefined) |
I watched this one alone with the lights off, willing myself to be frightened. No such luck: I found myself idly admiring Adam's radiators and wondering about his heating bills. - Daily Telegraph (UK)
Read More
| Posted Dec 30, 2019
|