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Wendy Ide

Wendy Ide is the Observer's chief film critic

15 September 2024
  • Amrit Kaur as Azra in The Queen of My Dreams.

    The Queen of My Dreams review – mother and daughter bond over Bollywood in colourful comedy romance

  • Juliet Stevenson and Erin Doherty in Reawakening.

    Reawakening review – Juliet Stevenson and Jared Harris excel in muted domestic drama

  • An old man and young woman in smart 1930s clothes standing side by side.

    The Critic review – deliciously waspish Ian McKellen lifts 30s London murder mystery

  • A female photographer holding a camera crouches behind sandbags during world war two.

    Wendy Ide's film of the week
    Lee review – Kate Winslet is remarkable as model turned war photographer Lee Miller

14 September 2024
  • An elderly Iranian man and woman standing next to one another, her head on his right shoulder, look at a mobile phone she is holding in her right hand.

    My Favourite Cake review – lovely, quietly subversive late-life Iranian romance

    A lonely widow seizes the day in this bittersweet comedy drama, which drew the ire of the Iranian authorities on its release earlier this year
8 September 2024
  • Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr and Jude Law as Henry VIII.

    Firebrand review – magnetic Alicia Vikander and glorious Jude Law lift cautious Tudor court drama

    Law’s fabulously monstrous Henry VIII is the best thing about this 21st-century take on the king’s last wife, Katherine Parr
  • Aaron Pierre in Rebel Ridge.

    Rebel Ridge review – Aaron Pierre impresses in small-town US action thriller

    The British actor plays an ex-marine grappling with police corruption in Jeremy Saulnier’s overcomplicated crime movie

    • Apollo 13: Survival review – gripping documentary on Nasa’s near-disastrous lunar mission

    • Starve Acre review – Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark hole up in brooding Yorkshire folk-horror

    • Wendy Ide's film of the week
      Beetlejuice Beetlejuice review – Tim Burton has fun with pleasingly idiosyncratic sequel

7 September 2024
  • Juliette Gariépy as Kelly-Anne in Red Rooms.

    Red Rooms review – dark, unnerving French-language chiller

    A young woman becomes obsessed with the trial of a man accused of three horrific livestreamed murders in Canadian director Pascal Plante’s stylish psychological thriller
1 September 2024
  • a saudi man in a baseball cap viewed from a car at night in green light

    Mandoob (Night Courier) review – Saudi crime thriller delves into the secrets of Riyadh

    Director Ali Kalthami shows the city as never before, through the eyes of a desperate delivery man negotiating a world of gangsters and illegal alcohol
  • Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier and Pierre Niney on the deck of a ship.

    The Count of Monte Cristo review – highly enjoyable French costume spectacle

    Three Musketeers screenwriters Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte move on to Dumas’s swashbuckling tale of revenge with verve

    • Close to You review – Elliot Page struggles to bring transgender drama to life

    • Paradise Is Burning review – compelling Swedish drama of three abandoned sisters

    • Wendy Ide's film of the week
      Sing Sing review – Colman Domingo is magnetic in moving real-life US prison drama

August 2024
  • Eddie Peng as Lang with Xin the whippet in Guan Hu’s Black Dog.

    Black Dog review – ex-con and stray dog bond in searching Chinese social drama

  • Naomi Ackie in Blink Twice.

    Blink Twice review – Zoë Kravitz’s thrilling, chilling directorial debut

  • Haley Bennett in Widow Clicquot.

    Widow Clicquot review – grande dame of champagne biopic falls flat

  • Ed Jackson wearing a backwards baseball cap in the mountains, looking up

    The Mountain Within Me review – feelgood climbing doc is hard to resist

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