For 848 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 51% higher than the average critic
  • 4% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 2.5 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Wendy Ide's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 68
Highest review score: 100 The Beasts
Lowest review score: 20 Patrick
Score distribution:
  1. Negative: 24 out of 848
848 movie reviews
    • 66 Metascore
    • 70 Wendy Ide
    While its ideas might fail to fully coalesce, the film is unnervingly beautiful; an immersive and mesmeric aural and visual experience.
    • 86 Metascore
    • 100 Wendy Ide
    There’s not a frame of this rich, kaleidoscopically detailed animation that isn’t dazzling.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Writer-director Carolina Cavalli (with the considerable contribution of Benedetta Porcaroli in the title role) crafts a refreshingly unconventional and acidic deadpan comic portrait of an offbeat female friendship.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 50 Wendy Ide
    Despite the suitably transgressive nature of the subject matter, Catherine Breillat’s first film in a decade is an oddly muted affair: uncomfortable, certainly, but lacking the disruptive, confrontational jab and genuine shock factor of her earlier pictures.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 70 Wendy Ide
    The Settlers shows promise: it’s the work of a daring director intent on developing a distinctive and original voice.
    • 52 Metascore
    • 50 Wendy Ide
    It looks terrific – as always Hausner’s use of colour and costume is striking and eloquent – but this is a thinly-written picture that operates on a largely superficial level.
    • 92 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    It is a fairly familiar crime thriller setup, yet this playful, effortlessly engrossing picture from Rodrigo Moreno takes a series of deliciously confounding turns.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    The writing is sharp throughout: Manning Walker has an acute ear for teen vernacular and a sly sense of humour. But some of the film’s most powerful moments are wordless, playing out in tight shots of Mckenna Bruce’s face.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 90 Wendy Ide
    It’s frequently an uncomfortable watch and, at points, prompts prickly ethical questions about the potential for the re-traumatisation of documentary subjects. But, perhaps more unexpectedly, this bold and confrontational film is also joyous, playful and in some ways even empowering.
    • 69 Metascore
    • 70 Wendy Ide
    This sparse, atmospheric fable grows markedly in power in the second half, as Banel’s passion takes on an edge of violence and insanity.
    • 55 Metascore
    • 40 Wendy Ide
    It’s an intriguing idea that might, perhaps, have sustained a short film.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    It’s not the kind of film that nails the audience to its seats; rather, it’s a quiet, observational piece of storytelling that pieces together the budding relationships between the labourers.
    • 84 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    With a smile that frays a little around the edges, and a peppy enthusiasm that can’t quite hide the doubts, McAdams wrings every last drop of pathos from her scenes, almost upstaging her screen daughter in the process.
    • 40 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    It’s slick, unchallenging and perfectly enjoyable, but it’s hard to see the point of a remake of Ron Shelton’s 1992 mismatched buddy movie about a pair of basketball hustlers who reluctantly team up.
    • 79 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    This very enjoyable film explores his extensive body of work, much of it daringly ahead of its time; it was Paik who, long before the concept of the internet had taken root, first broached the idea of an electronic superhighway.
    • 70 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    This is subdued storytelling that, while it drags a little in its pacing, asks tough questions about society’s relationship with elderly people.
    • 45 Metascore
    • 20 Wendy Ide
    If anything, the writing in this chocolate-box travelogue of a sequel is even lazier than that of the first film, with much cackling innuendo and sparkly narcissism, a couple of clumsily engineered long-distance domestic crises and interminable heartfelt speeches that made me cringe so hard I nearly dislocated my spine.
    • 78 Metascore
    • 70 Wendy Ide
    It’s a fairly conventional, risk-averse piece of filmmaking, but the film’s gentle, meandering story works its way to a conclusion which plays out in a minor key, suggesting that certain cycles are hard to break and that even a seemingly idyllic life comes at a cost.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    As this terrific and very moving documentary shows, the society, fuelled by bickering, biscuits and cinephilia, is a lifeline for its members, who weather bereavements, loneliness and fiercely argued creative differences within its peeling walls. Lovely stuff.
    • 82 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    It’s a bold, arresting debut from writer-director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk, who balances muscular, crime-thriller tropes against moments of striking, unsettling beauty, tension and urgency against knottily complex character development. Highly recommended.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    The combination of a unique personality and a fascinating place makes for a beguiling and poetic film, which blurs the lines between science and art.
    • 83 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    It’s a gentle piece of Arabic-language storytelling, one that softly, slowly enfolds the audience rather than propels them on a journey.
    • 80 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    While the symbolism can land a little heavily at times, Bessa’s fiercely committed performance and the palpable anger in the storytelling are the picture’s driving force.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    Classic rock needle drops and showy, snaking, single-shot action sequences – both GOTG trademarks – abound in a picture that balances a slightly overstuffed storyline with mischief, humour and the biggest of hearts.
    • tbd Metascore
    • 50 Wendy Ide
    Rather like the ill-fated plane, the comedy struggles to land.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Wendy Ide
    The force of Cruz’s charisma — she’s like a cross between Sophia Loren and a solar flare — is more than enough to justify spending time with the family.
    • 88 Metascore
    • 90 Wendy Ide
    While it could be described as being more of a filmed play than a piece of cinema, it’s also a riveting, raw work which, in its stripped-back simplicity, magnifies the power of tucker green’s fiercely compelling writing.
    • 75 Metascore
    • 80 Wendy Ide
    An investment on the part of the audience is required, to focus in on the characters and to follow the dialogue. It’s not quite as dry as it sounds. There is a subtle humour in this singular approach, but like the dialogue and the drama (such that it is), it is sidelined.
    • 61 Metascore
    • 60 Wendy Ide
    This handsome biopic by Lasse Hallström, with his daughter Tora Hallström in the role of the younger Hilma, attempts to redress the balance.
    • 46 Metascore
    • 20 Wendy Ide
    The Super Mario Bros Movie is a frantic Easter egg hunt of a film that does the bare minimum to please its loyal existing fanbase. Those less enthralled by the antics of the moustachioed Italian plumber will wonder which of Donkey Kong’s weaponised barrels this joyless, noisy mess was scraped from.

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