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Euan Ferguson

Euan Ferguson's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Black Power: A British Story of Resistance (2021) 100% EDIT “This timely programme should, 50 years on, have two effects. Don't believe the headlines. Don't let extremes infiltrate your dream, whether it's for independence or a happier planet.” – Observer (UK) Apr 1, 2021 Full Review The Mystery of D.B. Cooper (2020) 91% EDIT “I was left with two thoughts: evidence, without any additional motive or context, is not as it says; and all Americans want to be, briefly, acknowledged for their life, preferably on screen.” – Observer (UK) Dec 14, 2020 Full Review EDIT “I could have watched eight hours of this.” – Observer (UK) Oct 28, 2020 Full Review White Riot (2019) 100% EDIT “A wonderful retrospective on Rock Against Racism.” – Observer (UK) Oct 28, 2020 Full Review EDIT “There can be little doubt that, for every mind that they solidified in reactionary opposition, they changed at least three, to admit, on a family sofa, the concept of moving from the past to a more accepting world.” – Observer (UK) Oct 28, 2020 Full Review David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020) 96% EDIT “Not just another beautiful, troubling watch, this Netflix film was rather more; indeed, may be the finest thing Attenborough has ever done.” – Observer (UK) Oct 12, 2020 Full Review Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020) EDIT “It was a mess: ill-plotted, playing bits for laughs or for horror without ever achieving either.” – Observer (UK) Oct 12, 2020 Full Review I Am Not Your Negro (2016) 99% EDIT “An astonishment.” – Observer (UK) Jun 29, 2020 Full Review Sitting in Limbo (2020) 100% EDIT “An absorbing, rewatchable drama that quietly told loud truths, and wore its anger remarkably lightly.” – Observer (UK) Jun 15, 2020 Full Review Becoming (2020) 93% EDIT “Michelle told her story with charm, grit, adventurism and several appalling book-tour choices of dress.” – Guardian May 26, 2020 Full Review EDIT “Never mind that he is only featuring on telly because he featured a lot on telly many years ago, he also came across as bumblingly inarticulate. Until he didn't. He still could talk, and cleverly.” – Guardian May 26, 2020 Full Review EDIT “Responsible Child sought to highlight the mild madness of us having an extant law that allows children as young as 10 to be tried as adults when it comes to murder. As an argument, it works. As a drama, it didn't.” – Observer (UK) Dec 23, 2019 Full Review EDIT “It contained, occasionally, wonderful acting... But, oh, the trowelling on of morality, in which every campaigner was a salt-of-the-earth, laugh-a-minute pillar of society.” – Observer (UK) Dec 23, 2019 Full Review Elizabeth is Missing (2019) 93% EDIT “Elizabeth Is Missing has rightly been lauded, and how could it not be, other than for nudging us towards uncomfortable truths at this oh-so-happy time of year, that grand time of manically stressed mothers and pubs crammed with amateur drinkers.” – Observer (UK) Dec 16, 2019 Full Review The Case of Sally Challen (2019) 100% EDIT “The Case of Sally Challen unravelled, with patience and a refreshing absence of sentimentality, the story of a wife who murdered her husband.” – Observer (UK) Dec 16, 2019 Full Review EDIT “After so much ramping up, it was almost bound to fall short.” – Observer (UK) Sep 30, 2019 Full Review The Satanic Verses: 30 Years On (2019) 100% EDIT “Throughout, I couldn't help wondering what the parallels would be in today's climate of offence-taking as digital artform.” – Observer (UK) Mar 5, 2019 Full Review Drowning in Plastic (2018) EDIT “Liz Bonnin's Drowning in Plastic was an immensely brave, ultimately successful attempt to top that last Blue Planet series.” – Observer (UK) Feb 28, 2019 Full Review The Last Survivors (2019) 100% EDIT “As all best programmes do, this managed to raise quietly unanswered questions, which (if we're any good at all) we have to reach deep into ourselves to answer. What equates to trauma?” – Observer (UK) Feb 4, 2019 Full Review Brexit (2019) 80% EDIT “But Cumberbatch, brave soul (not least for beforehand meeting Cummings, strategist of all the actor holds toxic), excelled, and this was powerful drama in the end. Drama, remember; it's what they do.” – Observer (UK) Jan 15, 2019 Full Review The Dead Room (2018) EDIT “Mark Gatiss's script was (for him, yet for him only) a little pedestrian for a ghost story, but this was elevated to a different plane by Callow's camera-hugging turn.” – Observer (UK) Jan 2, 2019 Full Review Care (2016) 100% EDIT “Fortunately Mr James McGovern can be relied upon to write drama that's time and again head and shoulders above most other telly drama, even if the torso is rather too often one of abject unending misery.” – Observer (UK) Dec 17, 2018 Full Review WW1: The Final Hours (2018) EDIT “A sober, lucid, devastating exploration of the three days in a railway carriage in which the armistice was being negotiated by Erzberger, Marshal Ferdinand Foch.” – Observer (UK) Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Doing Money (2018) 80% EDIT “Doing Money was an unrelenting 90-minutes that made me wriggle and sweat anew for the squalor of my gender.” – Observer (UK) Nov 12, 2018 Full Review Child of Mine (2018) EDIT “A tremendously sensitive documentary by Katie Rice.” – Observer (UK) Oct 23, 2018 Full Review
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