Wendy Ide
TheGuardian
Most Divergent Takes
- How to Have Sex (2023)10.0 vs TRM 7.5+2.5
- Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023)8.0 vs TRM 6.0+2.0
- The Amateur (2025)6.0 vs TRM 4.7+1.3
- Sinners (2025)8.0 vs TRM 6.9+1.1
- Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024)4.0 vs TRM 4.9-0.9
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to Have Sex
2023 · TheGuardian · Nov 2023
Here's a cause for celebration for fans of British cinema: a feature debut that launches not one but two of the most promising talents to arrive in movie theatres for a long while. And the film's star, Mia McKenna-Bruce, is a revelation. You have to go back to Florence Pugh's breakout role in Lady Macbeth to find another career-making performance that so emphatically announces an actor destined for greatness.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
2023 · TheGuardian · May 2023
What elevates Vol 3 is the way it keeps that personality, nodding to the irreverent swagger that is a crucial component of the Guardians USP while delivering a series of devastating emotional sucker punches along the way. 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.