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Wendy Ide

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Contributor, The Times of London.

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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) 97% 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) 87% 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) 100% 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) 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) 60% 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 Send Help (2026) 93% EDIT “It’s enjoyably lurid stuff, and McAdams is a blast. It’s just a pity that a third-act twist seems a little too familiar.” – Observer (UK) Feb 10, 2026 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% EDIT “It’s not an easy watch, but this celebration of unlovely femininity -- of bodies that leak blood and pain -- is a perfect fit for Stewart, who has repeatedly been drawn to women who refuse to fit tidily into society.” – Observer (UK) Feb 10, 2026 Full Review Primate (2025) 78% EDIT “Unfortunately, the ape itself is rather less convincing. Still, this animal rampage delivers plenty of scares.” – Observer (UK) Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Shelter (2026) 64% EDIT “The plot is thin, the dialogue rudimentary. But the action is glorious. Statham’s deadly grace as a fighter has rarely been better showcased.” – Observer (UK) Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Kangaroo (2025) 93% EDIT “It’s generic stuff -- the adorable redemption arc is as predictable as the boxing kangaroo comedy interlude. But it’s a wholesome, likeable option for younger audiences, and a refreshingly human alternative to machine-tooled studio offerings.” – Observer (UK) Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “It might not have the awards-bait immediacy of [Bradley Cooper's] first two pictures, but for me this is the work of a director growing in confidence, who no longer feels the need to flex his film-making muscles in every frame.” – Observer (UK) Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Nouvelle Vague (2025) 92% EDIT “Nouvelle Vague is more than just an in-joke for cineastes -- it’s an invitation to make something alive and radical that pisses off the right people.” – Observer (UK) Feb 2, 2026 Full Review Mercy (2026) 24% EDIT “It’s pulpy, propulsive fun, but it reads alarmingly like a feature-length advertisement for mass surveillance.” – Observer (UK) Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Saipan (2025) 92% EDIT “A droll and gently entertaining blend of sports movie and soap opera.” – Observer (UK) Jan 26, 2026 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% EDIT “This is a handsome and impeccably tasteful work from South African director Oliver Hermanus... But it is subdued almost to the point of coyness, a story of passion undone by its polite execution.” – Observer (UK) Jan 26, 2026 Full Review Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) 94% EDIT “Josef Kubota Wladyka’s third feature film is a playful and whimsical confection, a deft blend of escapist kitsch and the real emotional heft that Kikuchi brings to the role.” – Screen International Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Lady (2026) 94% EDIT “A vivid, bracingly energetic examination of sisterhood and female bonds in an unequal society.” – Screen International Jan 23, 2026 Full Review Bulk (2025) 77% EDIT “I can’t say that it all makes a great deal of sense, but the film’s playfulness and teasing meta humour is appealing.” – Observer (UK) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% EDIT “Despite, or perhaps because of all the jostling egos, shouting and shooting, this is a baggy mess of a picture that fails to muster much in the way of suspense, or even to persuade us that we should care one way or another.” – Observer (UK) Jan 20, 2026 Full Review
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