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Lucy Mangan

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The Muppet Show (2026) 100% 3/5 EDIT “If nothing else, it will entertain children for half an hour and give them the not inconsiderable gift of being introduced to Miss Piggy.” – Guardian Feb 3, 2026 Full Review Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) 100% 3/5 EDIT “It is striking and undeniably uplifting how firmly she explains herself, outlines her extraordinary suffering and the psychological effects of intense fear at the hands of a violent man, and puts the responsibility back on Mitchell.” – Guardian Jan 21, 2026 Full Review Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story (2025) 3/5 EDIT “A new year’s resolution to do better than make or watch more of this stuff might improve us all.” – Guardian Dec 30, 2025 Full Review Unforgivable (2025) 5/5 EDIT “It has an immeasurable sorrow at its heart and offers no answers. It leaves you feeling that this is exactly as it should be; exactly as it must be.” – Guardian Nov 26, 2025 Full Review Matthew Perry: A Hollywood Tragedy (2025) EDIT “A grace note Perry surely earned.” – Guardian Aug 18, 2025 Full Review My Mom Jayne (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “My Mom Jayne is tender rather than schmaltzy, compassionate rather than hagiographic and an evident labour of love for all involved.” – Guardian Jul 14, 2025 Full Review 26.2 to Life (2022) 87% 4/5 EDIT “[An] intelligent, compassionate and deeply moving film.” – Guardian Feb 12, 2025 Full Review Cunk on Life (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The 70 minutes could have been tightened to an hour with very little lost -- indeed, quite a lot gained. But it is impossible not to remain a fan. Morgan is peerless.” – Guardian Dec 31, 2024 Full Review Bad Tidings (2024) 3/5 EDIT “Stretched a bit thin -- it is an hour’s worth of material at best spread over 90 minutes... But Bad Tidings has its moments. ” – Guardian Dec 24, 2024 Full Review Surveilled (2024) EDIT “Just buy paper, a pen and a pigeon. If that seems over the top to you now, I assure you it won’t by the time you finish Ronan Farrow’s tight hour of terror-documentary, Surveilled.” – Guardian Nov 26, 2024 Full Review Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery (2024) 3/5 EDIT “There is a great sense of opportunities missed rather than answers found.” – Guardian Nov 6, 2024 Full Review Eternal You (2024) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Eternal You is soberly directed by Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck and beautifully balanced, looking at the motivations of users and creators, at the influence of the money involved, plus what the individual and collective pros and cons could be. ” – Guardian Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes (2024) 97% 3/5 EDIT “Even for the amateur fan like me, the film remains a heady treat. Because it is about Elizabeth Taylor. They don’t make them like they used to -- and they probably never will again.” – Guardian Aug 12, 2024 Full Review Atomic People (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Atomic People does not mark a major anniversary. It is simply that time is running out for the long-silent survivors to tell their stories, to have them heard and to let them function as a warning from history. ” – Guardian Aug 2, 2024 Full Review A Storm Foretold: Roger Stone and Die (2023) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It comes together as a terrifying testimony to the deliberate nature of the destruction of the literal and metaphorical fabric of US politics. It is also an even more terrifying poser of the question -- what storms are yet to come?” – Guardian Jul 31, 2024 Full Review The Truth vs. Alex Jones (2024) 100% 4/5 EDIT “The madness of it, and the knowledge that Jones’s rants are giving a certain rabid demographic exactly what they want, the dizzying sense of unreality and the multiplying questions as you watch.” – Guardian Jun 14, 2024 Full Review Unknown: Killer Robots (2023) 100% 4/5 EDIT “I write to you from a bunker in the hills and I am never coming out.” – Guardian Jul 10, 2023 Full Review Christmas Carole (2022) 5/5 EDIT “A glorious, modern retelling of Charles Dickens’s tale by Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto that will set you up brilliantly for the whole yuletide shebang.” – Guardian Dec 26, 2022 Full Review Girl in the Picture (2022) 96% 4/5 EDIT “I have never seen a film less in thrall to a perpetrator, never seen a production succumb less to the lure of the evildoer.” – Guardian Jul 6, 2022 Full Review Our Father (2022) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Simple, unbelievable and simply unbelievable.” – Guardian May 11, 2022 Full Review Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022) 93% 3/5 EDIT “It is a slick and calculated production, designed to give Potterheads exactly what they want, how they want it. But it contains enough untold stories and honesty from the participants and unfakeable camaraderie to give it more genuine heart.” – Guardian Jan 3, 2022 Full Review Banksy: Most Wanted (2020) 83% 4/5 EDIT “Rouvier and Richard's film covered a lot of ground enthusiastically, intelligently and as unpretentiously as I've ever seen it done.” – Guardian Dec 2, 2021 Full Review 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas (2021) 100% 4/5 EDIT “It is an extraordinary portrait of a man who is convinced he cannot be wrong, who will always position himself - at least in his own mind - as the persecuted victim struggling to do right.” – Guardian Nov 26, 2021 Full Review Four Hours at the Capitol (2021) 89% 4/5 EDIT “The underlying collective testimony furnished by Four Hours at the Capitol is that the age of Trump has not yet ended - and the true day of reckoning in the United States is still to come.” – Guardian Oct 27, 2021 Full Review Sex: Unzipped (2021) 60% 0/5 EDIT “Zip it back up.” – Guardian Oct 27, 2021 Full Review
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