Wendy Ide
Select another critic »For 1,328 reviews, this critic has graded:
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49% higher than the average critic
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4% same as the average critic
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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 | |
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| Highest review score: | Alien | |
| Lowest review score: | Holmes & Watson | |
Score distribution:
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Positive: 758 out of 1328
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Mixed: 538 out of 1328
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Negative: 32 out of 1328
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- Wendy Ide
It’s a savagely funny showcase for Cage at his very best. But the picture sours somewhat in a third act that departs from crisp character study to target cancel culture, losing some of its biting humour in the process.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 13, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Ultimately, one of the key pleasures of the picture is its uncertainty – the niggling doubts that remain, and the sense that a crucial piece of the puzzle is tantalisingly out of reach.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 13, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
The Eternal Memory is a restrained, respectful piece of film-making that takes its lead from its two subjects. It’s wrenchingly sad, but also a testament to the love that endures, even as Augusto increasingly struggles to recognise his wife.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 13, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Of the cast, it’s only Iman Vellani, as Marvel fangirl turned superhero Kamala Khan, who seems genuinely excited to be in the film.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 13, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Kramer’s vision is distinctive: playful and jarringly lurid. Give Me Pity! is a one-off – and that’s probably a good thing.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 13, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
A psychological thriller, it’s all the more tense for Green’s smart understatement of the genre elements.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 6, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
The writing is sharp throughout: Manning Walker has an acute ear for teen vernacular and a sly sense of humour. But some of the film’s most powerful moments are wordless, playing out in tight shots of Mckenna Bruce’s face.- Screen Daily
- Posted May 22, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Buckley, as always, is terrific, bringing the picture more emotional potency than it perhaps warrants.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 6, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Even if the scattershot plotting doesn’t quite hold together, there’s a wayward energy to the picture and a barbed sense of mischief.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 6, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
The film’s observational approach means that little context is provided for the techniques used here, or for the lives and circumstances of the daily visitors. But the warm, non-judgmental embrace of Philibert’s approach is profoundly affecting.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 6, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Rarely does a music documentary so vividly evoke both the artistic approach and the tricky personality of its subject.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 2, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
It’s thought-provoking stuff, which also explores our own role, as audience members, in the voracious demand for other people’s stories.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Nov 1, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
There’s a disconnect between her inventive, impressionistic artistic output – Audrey’s actual work is interspersed throughout the picture – and the film’s flat, rather matter-of-fact look.- Screen Daily
- Posted Oct 26, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Mescal and Ronan are captivating: her watchful, raw-nerved longing; his stinging sense of betrayal. It almost eases us past an overwrought final twist. Almost, but not quite.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 22, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
The filmmakers switch the focus from the suspense of an uncertain outcome to the central friendship between the two women, a friendship that Diana tends to inadvertently torpedo. This allows both actresses to bring a depth and texture that sustains the picture through the extended swimming sequences.- Screen Daily
- Posted Sep 14, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
It’s a peppy sugar rush that should please younger audiences, but the appeal of the series is wearing pretty thin.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 22, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
It’s predictable but glossily watchable. The main redeeming feature is the crackling charisma of Emily Blunt, in the central role of a down-on-her-luck single mum turned pharma marketing genius.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 22, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
It is, it has to be said, something of a stretch to believe that this regal woman would be drawn to a dullard such as Ernest, but Gladstone and DiCaprio manage to convince us that this is more than a partnership of expediency – it’s a marriage of real love.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 22, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
The entertaining blend of quirky absurdism and behavioural neuroscience echoes Baumane’s approach to her family’s history of depression in her previous film. It’s a successful and distinctive formula, albeit one which falters slightly at the film’s uncertain conclusion.- Screen Daily
- Posted Oct 16, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
It’s an intense watch; at times infectiously hilarious, at others wrenchingly sad. For the film’s brief running time, there’s an emotional osmosis at play, in both sauna and cinema alike.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 15, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
The great missed opportunity of this film, with its glossy, handsome design and cinematography, and its genteel orchestral score, is how polite and unadventurous it is – something that could never be said of Dalí himself.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 15, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
It’s trite and predictable stuff: the laughs are forced; the pathos is over-stewed.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 15, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Peck’s film – which, with its themes of race and failures of American justice, has a kinship with Ava DuVernay’s 13th and Garrett Bradley’s Time – is both infuriating and also unexpectedly uplifting in its celebration of family unity.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 15, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
It’s a chipper, self-consciously adorable romp that will no doubt delight existing fans of the television series. It is, however, laser-targeted at the youngest audience members.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 15, 2023
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- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 15, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Although a little too performatively Scottish at times, this is a competently made weepie that should please fans of the book.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 12, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
It requires a rare ineptitude to take what is famously one of the most terrifying movies ever made, recycle pretty much everything (including Tubular Bells on the score) but neglect to include the scares.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 8, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
The comic potential of the collision of personalities is thoroughly mined: Lazaridis the diffident visionary; Fregin the extrovert oddball; Balsillie the driven, hyperaggressive alpha male.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 8, 2023
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- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 4, 2023
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- Wendy Ide
Grisliness occurs, accompanied by a score that sounds like knives being sharpened on violins. It’s thoroughly unpleasant, but that’s rather the point.- The Observer (UK)
- Posted Oct 4, 2023
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