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Wendy Ide

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Contributor, The Times of London.

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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) 92% 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) 93% 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) 96% 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) 78% 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) 66% 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 It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley (2025) 98% EDIT “Berg’s deftly edited picture strikes a balance, acknowledging the impact of a largely fatherless childhood without labouring the tragic parallels between the son and the man who came before him.” – Observer (UK) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Crime 101 (2026) 88% EDIT “It’s pacy and slick. And as you would hope from a film that makes a point of namechecking the Steve McQueen car chase classic Bullitt, the asphalt of LA’s downtown highways takes some serious punishment.” – Observer (UK) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review The President's Cake (2025) 99% EDIT “This is an impressive first feature from the writer-director Hasan Hadi, a sharply observed, bittersweet, child’s-eye odyssey that avoids cute-kid cliches.” – Observer (UK) Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Home Stories (2026) EDIT “It deftly passes the baton between members of an extended family as the focus of the story subtly shifts, and it’s a testament to the exceptional quality of Trobisch’s writing that the dynamics flow as effortlessly as they do.” – Screen International Feb 19, 2026 Full Review Heysel 85 (2026) EDIT “The bravura technical achievements of this richly textured, dynamically photographed period piece are not always matched by a screenplay that can, at times, feel a little laboured. ” – Screen International Feb 18, 2026 Full Review Rose (2026) 100% EDIT “The third film from Austrian director Markus Schleinzer is terrific. What initially seems like a gender-flipped riff on the story of Martin Guerre grows richer and more satisfying as it unfolds. ” – Screen International Feb 17, 2026 Full Review Mouse (2026) 100% EDIT “Mouse is a rich, emotionally satisfying and superbly acted bittersweet drama about the bumpy journey of coming to terms with loss.” – Screen International Feb 14, 2026 Full Review The Investigation of Lucy Letby (2026) 60% EDIT “With no new revelations pertaining to the case, the main talking point from this documentary looks likely to be the footage of the arrests. Bar the noise and the rubbernecking, there is little of real substance to add about the harrowing case.” – Observer (UK) Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Wuthering Heights (2026) 57% EDIT “This is less a respectful literary adaptation than a come-hither invitation to crawl down the cinema aisle on all fours and lick the screen. I enjoyed it immensely.” – Observer (UK) Feb 10, 2026 Full Review
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