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Wendy Ide

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Contributor, The Times of London.

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Time and Water (2026) 92% EDIT “It’s a pensive, reflective film which combines striking Super 16 archive material with a deft exploration of the way the narratives of our lives are intertwined with the lands we inhabit.” – Screen International Mar 24, 2026 Full Review La Grazia (2025) 85% EDIT “It’s a pensive, soulful work elevated by Servillo’s superb performance. But the director’s penchant for wistful shots of the leader in various scenic locations means there are long stretches of the film in which nothing of consequence is happening.” – Observer (UK) Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) 87% EDIT “This is a curious, unsettling picture, with parallels to A Clockwork Orange: in this meeting of monsters, Chris is every bit as repellent and inhuman as Tommy at his rampaging worst.” – Observer (UK) Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Dead Man's Wire (2025) 92% EDIT “While there’s an element of sympathy for this desperate, misguided man, Austin Kolodney’s caustic screenplay is laced with dark humour, much of it at the protagonist’s expense.” – Observer (UK) Mar 23, 2026 Full Review Project Hail Mary (2026) 94% EDIT “What’s not to like? Well, there’s the fact that Project Hail Mary so desperately wants to be loved. For all the heart-warming button-pushing, there’s something off-putting about a picture so aggressively feelgood. ” – Observer (UK) Mar 23, 2026 Full Review How to Make a Killing (2026) 44% EDIT “With How to Make a Killing, Powell, who has thus far coasted on impeccable bone structure and affable cheesiness -- he always seems to be on the brink of winking at the camera and pulling finger guns -- may have finally run out of momentum.” – Observer (UK) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review The Tasters (2025) EDIT “The picture’s main strength, aside from the meticulous costume and production design, is its thoughtful depiction of the dynamics of female friendship at a time of crisis.” – Observer (UK) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Reminders of Him (2026) 56% EDIT “While not quite as brain-atrophying as Regretting You, Reminders of Him is still pretty dismal. ” – Observer (UK) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Everybody to Kenmure Street (2026) 100% EDIT “The rough-and-ready aesthetic of this account of a grassroots act of resistance -- it is largely sourced from camera phone footage -- belies the film’s dexterous editing and elegant interweaving of social history and ripped-from-the-headlines immediacy.” – Observer (UK) Mar 17, 2026 Full Review Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars (2026) EDIT “A strikingly cinematic and visually rich work, which cries out to be seen on the biggest screen available.” – Screen International Mar 10, 2026 Full Review Mother's Pride (2025) EDIT “This is an underdog tale straining so hard to be endearing that it’s more likely to pull a muscle than tug a heartstring.” – Observer (UK) Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) 91% EDIT “With its muscular music choices, slick CGI and a gruesomely inventive use for a yard full of stolen pigs, the film doesn’t break new ground, but it should sate the bloodlust of fans.” – Observer (UK) Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Hoppers (2026) 94% EDIT “After an uneven run of high-concept science fiction and fantasy stories -- Lightyear, Elio, Elemental, Inside Out 2 -- Pixar has come back down to Earth with this inventive eco-adventure. And it’s a delight.” – Observer (UK) Mar 9, 2026 Full Review THE BRIDE! (2026) 57% EDIT “This gorgeously debauched film amounts to a chaotic, an uneven but oddly beautiful collision of ideas, all captured by an agitated camera as electrically charged as the life force that reanimates the bride herself.” – Observer (UK) Mar 9, 2026 Full Review Sirāt (2025) 91% EDIT “This is a piece of extraordinarily visceral film-making by Laxe. ” – Observer (UK) Mar 3, 2026 Full Review EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) 97% EDIT “While it is unlikely to tell you much you don’t already know, this is a must-see for Presley fans and a boisterously enjoyable watch even for Elvis agnostics.” – Observer (UK) Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Scream 7 (2026) 31% EDIT “The true test of a Scream movie is the quality of the villain behind the Ghostface mask. By that metric, this instalment is thin gruel indeed.” – Observer (UK) Mar 3, 2026 Full Review All You Need Is Kill (2025) 83% EDIT “The story might be familiar but the dazzling animation makes it well worth a return visit.” – Observer (UK) Mar 3, 2026 Full Review Wasteman (2025) 100% EDIT “McMau’s lean, light-footed direction combines handheld camera with phone footage to visceral and nerve-racking effect.” – Observer (UK) Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) 83% EDIT “A raggedly plotted adventure that feels like a knockoff of a middling Black Mirror episode. A film about the perils of technology for people who are intimidated by the control panel on their toaster.” – Observer (UK) Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Cold Storage (2026) 79% EDIT “What the film lacks in budget (some of the special effects are on the schlocky side), it makes up for in propulsive energy and sizzling chemistry between the leads.” – Observer (UK) Feb 24, 2026 Full Review The Moment (2026) 67% EDIT “A blunt-edged satire that doesn’t always seem clear about the point it is trying to make, or to have much of a grasp of pacing and structure. But Charli XCX is a captivating presence who has no problem skewering the absurdities of celebrity. ” – Observer (UK) Feb 24, 2026 Full Review If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) 92% EDIT “Inventive, needling use of sound and the blurring of reality and fantasy take us under the skin of a woman at breaking point. It’s an impressive, immersive piece of film-making -- and a profoundly uncomfortable watch.” – Observer (UK) Feb 24, 2026 Full Review Salvation (2026) EDIT “Despite the story’s repeated segues into dreams and fantasies, there’s a grim accumulation of momentum. Even so, the sheer brutality and savage finality of the film’s climax come as a shock.” – Screen International Feb 20, 2026 Full Review Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (2025) 98% EDIT “This is a poetic and strikingly beautiful work: it looks like a shimmering watercolour painting. It combines moments of playful, droll humour with darker themes, such as bereavement, grief and the still-fresh scars of the second world war.” – Observer (UK) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review
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