Wendy Ide

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Screen Daily, The Observer (UK)
For 1,337 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 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Lowest review score: 20 Patrick
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 766 out of 1337
  2. Mixed: 539 out of 1337
  3. Negative: 32 out of 1337
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    • 79 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    The First Slam Dunk
    While it leans a little heavily on baffling basketball strategy and court-based machinations, it’s a dynamic and unexpectedly affecting animation.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Scrapper
    Mostly Regan’s unfiltered approach brings a fizzing unpredictability and vitality to this abrasively empathic exploration of a father-daughter bond.
    • 54 Metascore
    • 40 Wendy Ide
    Strays
    Strays is a film that leans heavily on gross-out gags and a pre-adolescent fascination with pee and poop.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 70 Wendy Ide
    L'Immensità
    The force of Cruz’s charisma — she’s like a cross between Sophia Loren and a solar flare — is more than enough to justify spending time with the family.
    • 44 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    Heart of Stone
    The screenplay is a rudimentary thing – scaffolding to support the set pieces – that starts to creak whenever it attempts any depth of character. But the action is terrific, with a screaming, tyre-shredding extended car chase around Lisbon’s tight, cobbled alleys a breathless and exhilarating highlight.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Wendy Ide
    Haunted Mansion
    This is a grimly efficient IP cash-in that defuses any potential scares with a hot-pink colour palette and a bunch of oddly specific and distracting product placements.
    • 62 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    Red White & Royal Blue
    Fortunately, the twin charisma assault of the two leads adds considerably to the film’s appeal. It turns out that watching two impossibly beautiful boys making cow eyes at each other might be just the escapist pulp we need right now.
    • 67 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    LOLA
    Shot on film, using vintage equipment, the picture has a scrappy, tactile quality, its ghostly black-and-white images scratched and scorched. Meanwhile, Neil Hannon’s smartly used score envisages a chilling authoritarian future for pop music.
    • 49 Metascore
    • 40 Wendy Ide
    The Beanie Bubble
    It is blithely unquestioning of what the frenzy over glorified Hacky Sacks actually tells us about society.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 70 Wendy Ide
    Aurora's Sunrise
    Aurora’s Sunrise is notable not so much for its use of animation, which is effective but not especially creative or technically groundbreaking, but for the dramatic sweep of Aurora’s incredible tale.
    • 60 Metascore
    • 40 Wendy Ide
    Medusa Deluxe
    Mainly, though, the problem lies with a screenplay that fails to create suspense, or even to persuade us to care who killed a brilliant but unpopular hair stylist. Still, credit to the hair and costume design team for a collection of extravagantly silly creations.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 40 Wendy Ide
    Greatest Days
    It’s a film that obediently hits the predictable story beats, is regularly punctuated by peppy, disposable musical numbers, but shows no inclination to be much more than a nostalgic marketing vehicle for a collection of anodyne pop songs.
    • 90 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Oppenheimer
    For the most part, the film is a towering achievement. Not surprisingly, given Nolan’s preference for shooting on Imax 70mm film, the picture has a depth of detail you could drown in.
    • 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.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    While We Watched
    This is tense, essential film-making that argues for the importance of serious, balanced journalism in today’s world of factional infotainment, while also showing the cost to those who stand against the tide.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 70 Wendy Ide
    Mars Express
    It’s a technically accomplished work. The score is nervy pulsing and electronic, adding to the propulsion and tension of the storytelling.
    • 47 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    Bird Box Barcelona
    With Bird Box: Barcelona, as with any film of this outlandish ilk, suspension of disbelief and an appreciation of propulsively destructive action sequences is key. Just don’t expect too many fresh ideas.
    • 76 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
    Control director Anton Corbijn’s first documentary, Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis), is a fascinating and suitably maverick snapshot of a richly creative moment in music history, told through a couple of disreputable hippies who designed some of the most iconic album covers of all time.
    • 74 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Restore Point
    With its looming, angular and alienating architecture, and thoroughly considered technological and ethical future landscape, this is a phenomenal and inventive piece of world-building from Prague-based director Robert Hloz.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Red Rooms
    It’s an uncomfortable watch, but a extremely effective one.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Power Alley
    While the film’s conclusion is perhaps a little heavy-handed, the delivery of the message – of women’s reproductive rights and agency over their lives and bodies – is an emphatic slam dunk.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Wham!
    The beauty of Wham!, a key part of the appeal of the band, came from the perception that they were a self-contained unit, a guaranteed good time seemingly impervious to negativity. And for a while, that was true.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 40 Wendy Ide
    La Syndicaliste
    It’s not unusual, unfortunately, for the victims of sexual attacks to find themselves distrusted and even accused. What rankles in the film’s approach is that the audience is also encouraged to question her story.
    • 50 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
    The latest picture from DreamWorks Animation is a likable if slight story of teen crises.
    • 73 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    Hello, Bookstore
    The community support for the embattled shop surprises nobody, except, perhaps Tannenbaum, the ageing hippy whose love of literature is evident on every groaning shelf.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Nimona
    It’s a rambunctious adventure, certainly. But it’s also a film that argues for tolerance and LGBTQ+ acceptance.
    • 59 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    No Hard Feelings
    The unstoppable force of Lawrence’s charisma notwithstanding, this is not so much tasteless, just a bit bland.
    • 68 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    The Last Rider
    Spectacular archive footage from the event captures an inescapable sense of excitement – infectious, even to cycling agnostics in the audience – and interviews with LeMond and his wife, Kathy, are unexpectedly affecting.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    The Super 8 Years
    The slow-motion breakdown of a family is tracked by a lens that initially sought out intimacy and celebration, but finds itself, as the years pass, increasingly distanced from figures caught in its time capsule of a frame.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Wendy Ide
    The Listener
    The cumulative stress of the pandemic is everywhere, as pervasive and ubiquitous as the omicron variant. Beth’s lonely home-working set-up; the eerie quiet in the predawn hours; the brittle desperation in the callers’ voices; the sheer volume of cries for help: it all captures the sense of teetering on the brink, the uncertainty, the unfamiliar anxieties of the first lockdown.
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