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Wendy Ide

TheGuardian

4Reviews
Rarely scored4 of 4 scored
1Publication
Sinners

Sinners

2025 · TheGuardian · Apr 2025

Sinners is a sweltering, sexy southern gothic horror, a blues-infused vampire flick in which the music flows as freely as the blood. If you pick apart the story threads, Sinners is a little messy, but Coogler's assurance and vision holds everything together. It looks phenomenal: shot on 70mm film, the frame throbs with sultry, come-hither reds and golds.

8.0
TRM 6.9
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The Amateur

The Amateur

2025 · TheGuardian · Apr 2025

Slow Horses director James Hawes's espionage yarn is pacy and slick but badly miscast, with Malek feeling too wan and underpowered in the charisma department to be carrying an action flick.

6.0
TRM 4.7
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Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

2024 · TheGuardian · Dec 2024

In this frenetically empty sequel, cluttered with pinballing animated extraterrestrial varmints, the most cartoonish performance comes from a member of the human cast. Two Jim Carreys, each of them turning every individual line of dialogue into an extravagant pantomime of gurning and grandstanding, is categorically one too many.

4.0
TRM 4.9
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Girls Will Be Girls

Girls Will Be Girls

2024 · TheGuardian · Sep 2024

This impressive first feature from Indian director Shuchi Talati burrows into the skin of its high-achieving, ambitious central character. Talati's work with her young cast is first-rate; this sensitively handled coming-of-age picture deservedly won an audience prize at Sundance earlier this year.

8.0
TRM 7.3
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