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Wendy Ide

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Contributor, The Times of London.

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Mercy (2026) 24% EDIT “It’s pulpy, propulsive fun, but it reads alarmingly like a feature-length advertisement for mass surveillance.” – Observer (UK) Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Saipan (2025) 90% EDIT “A droll and gently entertaining blend of sports movie and soap opera.” – Observer (UK) Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% EDIT “This is a handsome and impeccably tasteful work from South African director Oliver Hermanus... But it is subdued almost to the point of coyness, a story of passion undone by its polite execution.” – Observer (UK) Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 91% EDIT “Josef Kubota Wladyka’s third feature film is a playful and whimsical confection, a deft blend of escapist kitsch and the real emotional heft that Kikuchi brings to the role.” – Screen International Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Lady (2026) EDIT “A vivid, bracingly energetic examination of sisterhood and female bonds in an unequal society.” – Screen International Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Bulk (2025) 83% EDIT “I can’t say that it all makes a great deal of sense, but the film’s playfulness and teasing meta humour is appealing.” – Observer (UK) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 80% EDIT “Despite, or perhaps because of all the jostling egos, shouting and shooting, this is a baggy mess of a picture that fails to muster much in the way of suspense, or even to persuade us that we should care one way or another.” – Observer (UK) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% EDIT “Although Fraser plays the character with an almost childlike naivety, there’s something rather off-putting about this big wet sponge of a man who believes all too readily in the roles he is assigned to play.” – Observer (UK) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) 92% EDIT “DaCosta’s film is a macabre morality tale about the best and worst of human nature. It is utterly brutal, and one of the most compelling so far.” – Observer (UK) Jan 17, 2026 Full Review Becoming Victoria Wood (2026) EDIT “It was an untimely loss that still stings. This unshowy but affectionate documentary salutes her singular talent and charts her journey.” – Observer (UK) Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Giant (2025) 61% EDIT “For a film about a fighter who was famous for his footwork, this is disappointingly plodding stuff.” – Observer (UK) Jan 12, 2026 Full Review Hamnet (2025) 86% EDIT “The film’s potency is derived as much from the physicality of the performances -- Mescal’s restless, questing agitation, Buckley’s open book of a face -- as it is from the dialogue.” – Observer (UK) Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Song Sung Blue (2025) 78% EDIT “It’s almost too obvious to draw a parallel between the directorial approach and the pleasantly forgettable, unapologetically corny music at its rhinestone-encrusted heart, but this is the very definition of middle-of-the-road film-making.” – Observer (UK) Jan 6, 2026 Full Review The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) 81% EDIT “The animation style might have evolved since the first cinematic outing for the rectangular undersea goofball in 2004, but the fourth film adventure for SpongeBob and his best friend, Patrick the starfish, is reassuringly familiar in other ways.” – Observer (UK) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review The Housemaid (2025) 74% EDIT “Sweeney and Seyfried attack their respective roles with gusto, but the plotting is too disingenuous and contrived to deliver much in the way of satisfying thrills.” – Observer (UK) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review The Six Billion Dollar Man (2025) 79% EDIT “It’s not the definitive account of the Assange story -- that would require an interview with the man himself, something conspicuously absent here -- but it’s probably the closest we have to date.” – Observer (UK) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “Fire and Ash might be technically accomplished, but the story isn’t strong enough to support the weight of the spectacle. Even worse is the synthetic hyper-clarity of the visuals: dazzling yet emotionally dead.” – Observer (UK) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “Skarsgård is magnificent as the charismatic, unreliable Gustav, but the film’s secret weapon is Elle Fanning’s hapless US starlet.” – Observer (UK) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Marty Supreme (2025) 93% EDIT “Marty Supreme is a thrilling visual onslaught, a rattling cacophony of ideas and images so intense that for two and a half hours you barely have time to catch your breath. It’s utterly exhausting and I loved every jangling second.” – Observer (UK) Dec 22, 2025 Full Review Preparation for the Next Life (2025) 97% EDIT “The feature film debut from documentary-maker Bing Liu (best known for the Oscar-nominated Minding the Gap), this is an intimate, superbly acted account of lives on the margins.” – Observer (UK) Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Ella McCay (2025) 22% EDIT “Dated in tone and positively antediluvian in its attitudes towards women in power, this is a clunky waste of Emma Mackey in the title role and of Jack Lowden as her crowbarred-in plot device of a husband.” – Observer (UK) Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Goodbye June (2025) 65% EDIT “This is a precision-engineered tear-jerker, but the inevitable moist eyes feel cynically manipulated rather than earned in good faith -- as if Winslet has blasted the audience with the emotional equivalent of pepper spray..” – Observer (UK) Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Eleanor the Great (2025) 67% EDIT ““Great” would be overstating it: let’s call it Eleanor the Adequate. The directorial debut from Scarlett Johansson is hamstrung by timidity, lack of vision and a crippling need to be liked. It’s a wasted opportunity.” – Observer (UK) Dec 15, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% EDIT “The film is so acerbic that watching it at times feels like being attached to a drip-feed of pure venom. And while it may not sound like it, that’s high praise indeed.” – Guardian Dec 12, 2025 Full Review Folktales (2025) 85% EDIT “Strikingly photographed and rooted in the earthy rhythms and traditions of the land, this is restorative comfort cinema. that has a kinship with pictures such as The Truffle Hunters and Honeyland. A film to renew the soul.” – Observer (UK) Dec 8, 2025 Full Review
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