Wendy Ide
@wendyide.bsky.social
Film critic for The Observer, Screen International. Usually can be found at a film festival. Parent. Brummie-born S E Londoner.
So proud to send my kid off to an early Halloween party in a Babadook costume. I feel that this is a film education win all round.
October 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
So proud to send my kid off to an early Halloween party in a Babadook costume. I feel that this is a film education win all round.
Also recommended for LFF animation heads, Endless Cookie www.screendaily.com/reviews/endl...
‘Endless Cookie’ review: Annecy’s Contrechamp winner is an inventive portrait of Canadian half-brothers
Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver's animated documentary is a "picture infused with love"
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October 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Also recommended for LFF animation heads, Endless Cookie www.screendaily.com/reviews/endl...
Animation fans at LFF: check out the gloriously batshit ChaO www.screendaily.com/reviews/chao...
’ChaO’ review: Anarchic Japanese anime imagines a fantastical near-future Shanghai
Animator Yasuhiro Aoki makes his debut with this energetic tale of human-merpeople relationships
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October 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Animation fans at LFF: check out the gloriously batshit ChaO www.screendaily.com/reviews/chao...
Another Venice review: Ali Asgari’s cine-literate satire Divine Comedy.
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‘Divine Comedy’ review: Ali Asgari skewers Iranian cultural restrictions in witty satire
Charming performances carry Asgari's fifth feature about a fictional director attempting to screen his latest film in Tehran
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September 2, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Another Venice review: Ali Asgari’s cine-literate satire Divine Comedy.
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Honeyland director Tamara Kotevska returns with the lovely, lyrical Tale of Silyan www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...
‘The Tale Of Silyan’ review: Tamara Kotevska follows ‘Honeyland’ with portrait of Macedonian farmer
Lyrical hybrid documentary charts the highs and lows of rural life in modern Macedonia
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September 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Honeyland director Tamara Kotevska returns with the lovely, lyrical Tale of Silyan www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...
Me on the Saudi drama Hijra www.screendaily.com/reviews/hijr...
‘Hijra’ review: Family bonds are tested when a teenage girl vanishes in accomplished Saudi drama
Saudi filmmaker Shahad Ameen's story centres on a grandmother and granddaughter in search of their missing relative
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September 2, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Me on the Saudi drama Hijra www.screendaily.com/reviews/hijr...
My pick of the Venice Competion so far: Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice www.screendaily.com/reviews/no-o...
‘No Other Choice’ review: Park Chan-wook’s economic satire is a darkly comic treat
The director's Venice Competition title stars Lee Byung-hun as a family man who turns to desperate measures
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September 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
My pick of the Venice Competion so far: Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice www.screendaily.com/reviews/no-o...
Me on Broken English www.screendaily.com/reviews/brok...
‘Broken English’ review: Marianne Faithfull’s life explored in inventive documentary with starry cast
Directors Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth have assembled collaborators including Tilda Swinton and George MacKay
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September 2, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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Motor City. Yikes www.screendaily.com/reviews/moto...
‘Motor City’ review: Seventies Detroit revenge thriller proves more style than substance
Shailene Woodley stars in Potsy Ponciroli's schlocky, dialogue-light Venice Spotlight title
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September 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Motor City. Yikes www.screendaily.com/reviews/moto...
Me on The Testament Of Ann Lee www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...
‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ review: Amanda Seyfried is 18th-century preacher in audacious musical
Mona Fastvold and co-writer Brady Corbet's uneven biopic of the eponymous Shaker founder bows in Venice Competition
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September 2, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Me on The Testament Of Ann Lee www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...
A few of my Screendaily Venice reviews: loved Kent Jones' Late Fame www.screendaily.com/reviews/late...
‘Late Fame’ review: Greta Lee and Willem Dafoe shine in pleasing New York Story
The second feature from Kent Jones bows in Venice Horizons
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September 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A few of my Screendaily Venice reviews: loved Kent Jones' Late Fame www.screendaily.com/reviews/late...
Also out this week - me on Friendship, Smurfs, Gold Songs and Four Letters of Love
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Wendy Ide’s pick of other films: Friendship, Four Letters...
A new comedy starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd is a grotesquely deformed mutation of the bromance genre
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July 20, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Also out this week - me on Friendship, Smurfs, Gold Songs and Four Letters of Love
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Not for everyone, certainly, but I am a fan of Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest, a heady, muddy story of the end of a community
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Harvest is an atmospheric, hallucinogenic story of displa...
This brooding adaptation of Jim Crace’s Booker-shortlisted novel about a village imperilled by outsiders is uncomfortably topical
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July 20, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Not for everyone, certainly, but I am a fan of Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest, a heady, muddy story of the end of a community
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Gutted to read this. www.screendaily.com/news/frantie...
František Klišík from ‘Better Go Mad in the Wild’ dies just after film’s Karlovy Vary win
Klišík drowned in a pond just hours after the film won the Karlovy Vary Grand Prix, according to Czech media reports.
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July 13, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Gutted to read this. www.screendaily.com/news/frantie...
Camille Cottin and top tier child actors are the main reason to watch Out of Love www.screendaily.com/reviews/out-...
‘Out Of Love’ review: Camille Cottin stars as a French woman flung into motherhood
Nathan Ambrosioni's intimate drama premieres in Karlovy Vary
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July 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Camille Cottin and top tier child actors are the main reason to watch Out of Love www.screendaily.com/reviews/out-...
A few Karlovy Vary reviews: Paul Andrew Williams is back with Dragonfly, which takes a huge tonal swerve in the final act. Riseborough and Blethyn superb. I liked quite a bit. www.screendaily.com/reviews/drag...
‘Dragonfly’ review: Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn headline potent Paul Andrew Williams drama
Williams returns to the big screen with unnerving study of a community in crisis
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July 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A few Karlovy Vary reviews: Paul Andrew Williams is back with Dragonfly, which takes a huge tonal swerve in the final act. Riseborough and Blethyn superb. I liked quite a bit. www.screendaily.com/reviews/drag...
So delighted to be back in Karlovy Vary this year, for one of my favourites on the festival circuit, for its buzzy atmosphere, great programming and enthusiastic embrace of street drinking,
July 4, 2025 at 12:35 PM
So delighted to be back in Karlovy Vary this year, for one of my favourites on the festival circuit, for its buzzy atmosphere, great programming and enthusiastic embrace of street drinking,
Me on the turbo-charged midlife crisis that is F1: The Movie in The Observer
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F1: the Movie is one long midlife crisis | The Observer
Cliches and product placement plague a film so corporate it comes with its own registered trademark symbol
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June 29, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Me on the turbo-charged midlife crisis that is F1: The Movie in The Observer
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Me on Ocean With David Attenborough: Late to this, but what an important, impassioned film. Essential viewing observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Film review: Attenborough’s deep dive reveals the pearls ...
Dazzling photography and a compelling argument from our favourite guide show a thrilling ecosystem at risk
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June 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Me on Ocean With David Attenborough: Late to this, but what an important, impassioned film. Essential viewing observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Travelling via Geneva today I walked past a shop selling a chair made of stuff toy flamingos for something like 10 grand, and I feel like humanity may have crossed a significant taste rubicon.
June 8, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Travelling via Geneva today I walked past a shop selling a chair made of stuff toy flamingos for something like 10 grand, and I feel like humanity may have crossed a significant taste rubicon.
Hard recommendation for the gorgeous The Ballad of Wallis Island, a lovely, bittersweet cardigan-clad treasure of a film. observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Film of the week: A balm for battered souls | The Observer
Carey Mulligan at her most magnetic plays one half of an estranged folk duo booked by lonely superfan Tim Key in what deserves to be this summer’s breakout hit
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May 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Hard recommendation for the gorgeous The Ballad of Wallis Island, a lovely, bittersweet cardigan-clad treasure of a film. observer.co.uk/culture/film...
Me on Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning and the libido-shrivelling anti-frisson between Tom Cruise and his female co-stars. In The Observer
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Cruise keeps us hanging on for the Mission: Impossible franchise climax | The Observer
Can breathtaking action sequences save the day as Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt strives to protect the world from malevolent AI in Mission: Impossible’s franchise climax?
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May 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Me on Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning and the libido-shrivelling anti-frisson between Tom Cruise and his female co-stars. In The Observer
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If Jafar Panahi's unflinching and brave attack on the Iranian regime doesn't win at least something, I will eat my shoes. www.screendaily.com/reviews/it-w...
‘It Was Just An Accident’ review: Jafar Panahi confronts the Iranian injustice system head-on
Cannes Competition title sees a traffic accident spark a series of devastating events
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May 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
If Jafar Panahi's unflinching and brave attack on the Iranian regime doesn't win at least something, I will eat my shoes. www.screendaily.com/reviews/it-w...
Another Cannes highlight for me: The Secret Agent is terrific. www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...
‘The Secret Agent’ review: Kleber Mendonça Filho’s 1970s Brazilian thriller is ‘riot of a movie’
The director's anarchic follow-up to 'Bacarau' stars Wagner Moura and Udo Kier
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May 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Another Cannes highlight for me: The Secret Agent is terrific. www.screendaily.com/reviews/the-...