Latest Stories

Most recently published stories in Critique.

Susan Boyle
This has to go down as one of, if not the, biggest surprise, live televised auditions of all time! An ordinary middle-aged woman, dressed like Widow Twanky, who had spent all of her life with a dream. A woman with a voice so soft and pure, and yet so powerful.
By Liam Ireland3 years ago in Critique
It Happened One Night (1934)
Pre-code Hollywood brings feisty women and virile men, who save themselves for marriage (just). It is of its time and place.
By Rachel Robbins3 years ago in Critique
Oppenheimer: A polarising Prometheus
Man plays with fire, and burns the world. That’s awfully familiar. They say that theory can only get you so far, but does that give you permission to play God with the rest of humanity?
By Joe O’Connor3 years ago in Critique
Tears of the Kingdom (Game)
TotK has better gameplay, and a more narrative driven story. However, they feel separate from eachother, with the story suffering by finding the Tears out of order.
By Malcolm Roach3 years ago in Critique
We Are The World
This is who we are. This is such an emotional, joyous, roller-coaster celebration of the act of giving to those who most need it. I still get goosebumps watching this video, it is such a powerful expression of not just America, but of the human family at its best.
By Liam Ireland3 years ago in Critique
Painkiller
Painkiller exposes the roots of the most pressing health epidemic of the 21st century. The origins of the opioid crisis in the United States, as seen through the eyes of perpetrators, victims, and truth-seekers.
By kathy rich3 years ago in Critique
The Mona Lisa Effect
Long wait. Overcrowded room. Zig-zagging like the airport line. Chattering anticipation. Phone camera poised. Bated breath for your turn.
By Joe O’Connor3 years ago in Critique
Breaking Bad
A camper, blue sky, pork pie hat, and Los Pollos Hermanos chicken. Superb casting, well written script, Dynamic connection of Jesse and his teacher.
By C. H. Richard3 years ago in Critique
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart
Alice Hart finds her life changing dramatically when her parents die in a mysterious fire and she is sent to live with her grandmother on a flower farm.
By kathy rich3 years ago in Critique
The Last of Us
The series follows Joel (Pedro Pascal), a smuggler tasked with escorting the immune teenager Ellie (Bella Ramsey) across a post-apocalyptic United States.
By kathy rich3 years ago in Critique
Live Aid
One idea, sixty world-class artists, ten international venues in ten different countries across six continents, a global audience of 1.9 billion people, 40 percent of the world's population, raised 140 million dollars for one cause, famine relief in Ethiopia. Never have so many done so much for so many needful.
By Liam Ireland3 years ago in Critique
Hey Avatar, someone wants her story back
So you were the highest-selling movie of all time huh? I guess space + 3D = genius. Those fancy glasses of yours made people miss the real crime. Not mining Ubh-310, but taking what isn’t yours. How appropriate that it’s called Pandora.
By Joe O’Connor3 years ago in Critique