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Serena Davies

Film Critic

United States

Gone with the Wind (1939)

Publish Date: November 16, 2015
"Overblown and melodramatic, it somehow achieves more than the schmaltz of its parts, thanks to a spirited modern heroine"

Telegraph
This Is England '90 (TV Miniseries) (2015)

Publish Date: October 4, 2015
"Meadows has found a vein of dirty, bloody, riveting realism that makes you cry out for the characters (...) Combo and their friends will be sorely missed (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Telegraph
Wolf Hall (TV Miniseries) (2015)

Publish Date: January 21, 2015
"Kosminsky is working with a masterful script from Peter Straughan (...) it is lucid but it is intricate (…) Rating: ***** (out of 5)"

Telegraph
Sherlock: His Last Vow (TV) (2014)

Publish Date: January 12, 2014
"'Sherlock’s last, dark chapter in 2014 was the best of the lot (...) Moffat gets the wary dance between plot and character just right; rarely messing up the steps, never coming to a standstill. (...) Rating: **** (out of five)"

Telegraph
Borgen (TV Series) (2010)

Publish Date: December 14, 2013
"Every series of 'Borgen' has built up from lighter-hearted episodes with self-contained stories about stuff as seemingly mundane as pig farming to become gripping races to the finish that focus on destroyed love. (...) Rating: ***** (out of five)"

Telegraph
The Hollow Crown: Henry IV, Part 2 (TV) (2012)

Publish Date: July 14, 2012
"[The BBC has made films] of Shakespeare that are vivid and vivacious not leaden and lugubrious (…) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Telegraph
Birdsong (TV Miniseries) (2012)

Publish Date: January 22, 2012
"The BBC, then, have done something important – they have made an elegiac, lyrical film with which the next generation can associate the war (...) Rating: **** (out of 5)"

Telegraph
Luther (TV Series) (2010)

Publish Date: May 5, 2010
"Unfairly perhaps, Elba had to produce something exceptional from 'Luther', a standard piece of writing, and (...) he hasn't"

Telegraph
Return to Cranford (TV Miniseries) (2009)

Publish Date: December 18, 2009
""Yet ironically Cranford’s particular charm is its surprising lack of sentimentality and cuteness"

Telegraph
Cranford (TV Miniseries) (2007)

Publish Date: December 18, 2009
"Yet ironically Cranford’s particular charm is its surprising lack of sentimentality and cuteness"

Telegraph
Little Dorrit (TV Series) (2008)

Publish Date: October 18, 2008
"'Little Dorrit's larger themes of financial corruption and reversals of fortune may be as pertinent today as they were in the middle of the 19th century"

Telegraph
Sherlock: The Hounds of Baskerville (TV) (2012)

"The whole thing was pacy, sharp and witty, as we’ve come to expect from the Moffat and Gatiss crack creative duo, and rather less inscrutable than the New Year episode"

Telegraph

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