Wendy Ide

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Screen Daily, The Observer (UK)
For 1,330 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 49% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 47% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.2 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Wendy Ide's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 Alien
Lowest review score: 20 Holmes & Watson
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 760 out of 1330
  2. Mixed: 538 out of 1330
  3. Negative: 32 out of 1330
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    • 78 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Speak No Evil
    It’s a profoundly uncomfortable piece of filmmaking, a meticulously judged exercise in satirical sadism. But a question mark over the third act climax leaves the audience with a sense of doubt: the ’what’ of the situation is genuinely disturbing, but the ’why’ is more elusive, a niggling inconsistency which undermines some of the picture’s considerable impact.
    • 85 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    The Wild Robot
    It’s sentimental stuff, certainly, but the picture’s unexpectedly dark humour outweighs any maudlin tendencies.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Werner Herzog - Radical Dreamer
    Interviewees tie themselves in knots of gushing superlatives, but the real insights come from the man himself.
    • 58 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    The Hummingbird Project
    Part thriller, part family drama, part satirical commentary on the way that the pursuit of wealth is a cultural cancer that taints everything it touches, The Hummingbird Project is no less compelling for its odd mishmash of components.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
    Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is an impressive achievement, a piece of storytelling which balances moments of flighty whimsy against deeper existential questions, marking Foldes as a talent to watch in the world of adult-skewed animation.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Smile 2
    The special effects are bracingly revolting, the malevolent smiles as creepy as ever. And the film has the added bonus of some killer choreography, in every sense of the word.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Emergency
    Carey Williams’s smart satire of the daily realities of racial profiling is a switchback ride that lurches between comedy and nerve-shredding tension, but loses focus in an extraneous coda.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    La Mif
    Mini-chapters focus on characters in turn, each offering a new perspective on the unfolding drama; choral and chamber music is an unexpected but effective punctuation in the storytelling, but most powerful is sound design that understands the gravity of moments of weighted silence.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    The Holdovers
    There’s a bracingly astringent bleakness under its surface layer of melancholy humour; a biting, sharp edge that counters the occasional lurch towards sentimentality.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Sugarcane
    The sickening facts of the case are presented with a respectful restraint but it’s impossible to watch this and not feel a cold, hard rage on behalf of the victims.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Woman of the Hour
    Kendrick’s knack for capturing period detail goes beyond the psychedelic synthetics and kipper ties. She taps into the treacherous sexism that was hardwired into the entertainment industry and wider culture of the time, both of which are shown to be minefields of fragile male egos and potential violence.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Girl
    What’s crucial to the film’s success, however is the fact that, despite its candour about Lara’s pain, the film refuses to relinquish a note of hope.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    We the Animals
    One of the discoveries of the year so far.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    The Inspection
    This well-acted outsider’s-eye view of the inner workings of the US armed forces is fiercely candid, in its condemnation of the brutality that is enmeshed in the training programme, and in its celebration of the bonds and brotherhood that grow between fellow cadets.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    The Count of Monte Cristo
    It’s directed with verve and acted with gusto.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    His Three Daughters
    This is subtle, unshowy film-making that is entirely in the service of the screenplay and the performances – and what performances.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Small Body
    With its colour palette of mossy greens, terracotta and earth tones, and its matter-of-fact approach to themes of folklore and mysticism, this gorgeous first feature from Italian director Laura Samani is as enchanting as it is unusual.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Architecton
    Architecton is a gorgeously photographed poetic reverie on the subject of stone and concrete, permanence and profligate waste.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    The Adam Project
    The high-concept plot is held together more by force of will (and some decent special effects) than by logic, but the core of this engaging, kid-friendly Netflix production is a big-hearted tale of broken families made good.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Mystify: Michael Hutchence
    The result is enlightening and affecting, providing a missing piece in the puzzle of a life prematurely ended.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Sing Sing
    It’s powerful and profoundly moving stuff.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Turning Red
    Turning Red is a fizzing, squealing adolescent explosion of a movie that nails a fundamental truth about growing up.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    King Richard
    It’s a very watchable picture, but one that, like the plan that Williams famously wrote for his daughters, feels at times like a checklist of challenges overcome and decisions vindicated.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Night Courier
    Seedily handsome cinematography captures a city full of secrets and simmering violence.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Sinners
    If you pick apart the story threads, Sinners is a little messy, but Coogler’s assurance and vision holds everything together.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Maestro
    With its nonlinear structure, Maestro feels a little like a scrapbook of life moments – glittering career achievements; crackling explosions of domestic tension – and Cooper keeps up a zesty, kinetic energy throughout.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Queendom
    Ultimately, as Agniia Galdanova’s remarkable observational documentary shows, Gena is her own extraordinary creation.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Ford v Ferrari
    Slick, thrilling and saturated with vivid hues and 60s can-do optimism, Le Mans ’66, James Mangold’s follow-up to Logan, is a precision-tooled machine of a movie.
    • 89 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    The Power of the Dog
    The weathered earth tones of Campion’s subdued colour scheme conceal a vivid and full-blooded emotional palette.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Return to Dust
    It’s a gorgeous, quietly affecting film that finds an unassuming beauty in this simple life in rural China, but which doesn’t shy away from the extreme hardships faced by the very poorest.
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