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Wendy Ide

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Contributor, The Times of London.

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Sinners (2025) 98% 4/5 “If you pick apart the story threads, Sinners is a little messy, but Coogler’s assurance and vision holds everything together. It looks phenomenal: shot on 70mm film, the frame throbs with sultry, come-hither reds and golds.” – Observer (UK) Apr 21, 2025 Full Review Freaky Tales (2024) 74% 4/5 “With its VHS bargain-bin aesthetic, this is scuzzily enjoyable stuff.” – Observer (UK) Apr 21, 2025 Full Review Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story (2024) 100% 4/5 “The slightly bitter aftertaste left by this otherwise richly enjoyable documentary portrait of the writer Edna O’Brien comes from the decades of bullying and ridicule she had to endure before her talent was fully recognised.” – Observer (UK) Apr 21, 2025 Full Review The Penguin Lessons (2024) 80% 3/5 “Adapted from Tom Michell’s autobiographical book, The Penguin Lessons counters the inspirational teacher cliches with a bumbling charm that’s boosted considerably by a first-rate performance from the scene-stealing penguin. ” – Observer (UK) Apr 21, 2025 Full Review Warfare (2025) 93% 5/5 “Warfare, by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, is the most forceful and unflinching depiction of combat since Edward Berger’s 2023 Oscar-winning All Quiet on the Western Front. It’s also one of the boldest and most formally daring.” – Observer (UK) Apr 21, 2025 Full Review Holy Cow (2024) 97% 4/5 “Ultimately, the comté is beside the point: the nourishment in this terrific, big-hearted drama comes from Courvoisier’s satisfyingly full-blooded characters.” – Observer (UK) Apr 15, 2025 Full Review One to One: John & Yoko (2024) 89% 4/5 “One to One might not reveal a huge amount that’s new about Lennon, but it makes him feel bracingly alive in a way few other documentaries have managed.” – Observer (UK) Apr 15, 2025 Full Review The Amateur (2025) 61% 3/5 “It’s a promising pulpy premise, but Malek feels too wan and underpowered in the charisma department to be carrying an action flick.” – Observer (UK) Apr 15, 2025 Full Review The Return (2024) 78% 4/5 “The main draw is the cast, with Ralph Fiennes sinewy and racked by self-doubt and guilt as Odysseus, returned from war after a 20-year absence, and a compelling turn from Juliette Binoche as Penelope. Both are terrific, but Binoche is the standout. ” – Observer (UK) Apr 15, 2025 Full Review G20 (2025) 58% 3/5 “Yep, we’re deep into fantasy territory with this preposterous, dumb-as-rocks action picture. Redeeming it slightly is the consistently impressive Viola Davis,” – Observer (UK) Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Drop (2025) 84% 4/5 “It’s enjoyable stuff: a taut and crisply edited balance between humour and horror.” – Observer (UK) Apr 15, 2025 Full Review Four Mothers (2024) 89% “What could have been a sentimental plodder gets a pleasingly acerbic tang from the bracing cattiness of the dialogue.” – Observer (UK) Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Last Swim (2024) 100% 3/5 “Sunny, soulful, if a little montage-heavy at times, this is a more conventional film. Hekmat’s magnetic star quality, though, is unmistakable: she’s a free and fascinating presence.” – Observer (UK) Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Sebastian (2024) 75% 4/5 “It’s tender, thoughtful film-making from Finnish director Mikko Mäkelä, exploring the bond between two men separated by generations but joined by literature and love.” – Observer (UK) Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Mr. Burton (2025) 83% 2/5 “The always impressive Jones gives a satisfyingly fleshed-out turn... It’s a pity, then, that this sluggishly paced film, which leans heavily on a fussy, twinkling piano score, is so meandering and listless.” – Observer (UK) Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Death of a Unicorn (2025) 54% 3/5 “Here is a B-movie throwback with its roots in the pulpy creature features of the 1950s. Viewed from this perspective, the shonky special effects are just part of the fun.” – Observer (UK) Apr 7, 2025 Full Review A Minecraft Movie (2025) 48% 1/5 “The villain, a piglin called Malgosha who hates creativity and is obsessed with hoarding wealth, provides an inadvertently neat allegory for the studio bosses who greenlit this egregious IP cash-in.” – Observer (UK) Apr 7, 2025 Full Review Always (2025) “Harnessing the unexpectedly sophisticated verses written by Youbin and several other children, Deming Chen’s lyrical documentary absorbs the slow-burning rhythms and creative inspirations of rural life.” – Screen International Apr 3, 2025 Full Review A Working Man (2025) 49% 2/5 “The fun is undermined by dialogue that is overmasticated, Russian-accented word mulch. In the end, A Working Man takes itself rather too seriously for a movie that unironically uses Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata as a recurring musical motif.” – Observer (UK) Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Novocaine (2025) 81% 3/5 “Quaid’s personable screen presence holds things together, even as his brutally beaten body starts to fall apart. But this gory action comedy has just one joke, and like poor, battered and bleeding Nathan it starts to run out of juice.” – Observer (UK) Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The Woman in the Yard (2025) 44% 3/5 “Simplicity is power, and the lean initial premise here is as potent as it gets... The inexorable, creeping chill of this uncanny game of What's the time, Mr Wolf? dissipates almost entirely, though, during a convoluted third act.” – Observer (UK) Apr 1, 2025 Full Review La Cocina (2024) 75% 3/5 “Parts of it are excellent: there’s a propulsive, unpredictable energy to the kitchen during the midday rush; the direction, and the agile choreography of cast and camera, are breathtaking.” – Observer (UK) Apr 1, 2025 Full Review The End (2024) 56% 2/5 “In a way, The End is exactly the kind of risk-taking venture you would expect and even hope for from a visionary director such as Oppenheimer. I just wish I liked it more.” – Observer (UK) Apr 1, 2025 Full Review Misericordia (2024) 95% 4/5 “It isn’t entirely satisfying -- there are too many unfulfilled subplots and murky motivations -- but this intriguingly tricky drama has a perverse appeal.” – Observer (UK) Apr 1, 2025 Full Review We Are Forever Young (2015) “For newcomers to the cult of BTS, it’s an illuminating and at times moving journey which, while it might not leave us as newly paid up ARMY, at least gives an insight into the their considerable appeal.” – Screen International Mar 26, 2025 Full Review
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