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Wendy Ide

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Contributor, The Times of London.

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The Magic Faraway Tree (2026) 96% EDIT “If you can get past some rather overegged child-actor performances, it’s an enjoyable enough option for Easter holiday family entertainment.” – Observer (UK) Mar 30, 2026 Full Review The Last Blossom (2025) EDIT “It’s a lovely picture, notable for its emotional sophistication, elegantly unshowy graphic style and especially its use of music. ” – Observer (UK) Mar 30, 2026 Full Review Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) 97% EDIT “Below the Clouds is a rewarding, wryly funny mosaic of a turbulent city, flanked by volcanoes and rich with stories.” – Observer (UK) Mar 30, 2026 Full Review DJ Ahmet (2025) 93% EDIT “It’s a rich depiction of a traditional Yörük community -- Turkic tribal people -- that feels authentically lived in rather than an ethnographic curio, as well as a fresh coming-of-age film.” – Observer (UK) Mar 30, 2026 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% EDIT “The problem is this exhaustingly open-minded yet curiously dated rom-non-monogamy-com is lacking the chemistry and comedic bite needed to make it distinctive.” – Observer (UK) Mar 30, 2026 Full Review Two Prosecutors (2025) 97% EDIT “The film is extraordinary: the measured pace exerts an ever-tightening chokehold of tension, and the period details are brilliantly evoked. ” – Observer (UK) Mar 30, 2026 Full Review 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) 86% 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) 95% 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) 57% 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) 90% 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) 58% 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
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