All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 19
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Reviews‘The Whale’: Venice Review
Brendan Fraser brings a big heart to Darren Aronofsky’s faltering adaptation of a stage play about a man eating himself to death
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Reviews‘L’Immensita’: Venice Review
Penelope Cruz is ’a cross between Sophia Loren and a solar flare’ in Emanuele Crialese’s beguiling drama
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Reviews‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’: Venice Review
Nan Goldin’s battle against the Sackler family is positioned against her singular background as an artist in Laura Poitras’s absorbing documentary
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Reviews‘A Couple’: Venice Review
Frederick Wiseman’s fiction feature is a monologue taken from the diaries of Tolstoy’s wife
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Reviews‘Blue Jean’: Venice Review
Georgia Oakley’s impressive debut, set in the UK during the introduction of Section 28, features a knockout performance from Rosy McEwen
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Reviews‘Stonewalling’: Venice Review
Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka explore the limited options available to the younger generation of contemporary China
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Reviews‘A Man’: Venice Review
A grieving woman learns the truth about her late husband in Kei Ishikawa’s slow-burn drama
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Reviews‘Megalomaniac’: Fantasia Review
Karim Ouelhaj draws on the unsolved case of the Butcher Of Mons for her macabre fourth feature
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Reviews‘Hypochondriac’: Fantasia Review
Addison Heimann flirts with body horror and paranoia as he explores a man losing his mind
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Reviews‘Christina’: FIDMarseille Review
Nikola Spasic builds a compelling docu-fiction around the titular Serbian transgender sex worker
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Reviews‘Afghan Dreamers’: Galway Review
Stirring documentary about the mixed fortunes of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team
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Reviews‘Mother’: Munich Review
Testimonies of real life mothers are at the centre of Carolin Schmitz’s involving documentary-fiction hybrid
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Reviews‘No Dogs Or Italians Allowed’: Annecy Review
Alain Ughetto traces his family history in this charming, personal second feature animation
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Reviews‘Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman’: Annecy Review
Haruki Murakami’s short stories inspire an elegantly surreal directorial debut from composer Pierre Foldes
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Reviews‘Dounia And The Princess Of Aleppo’: Annecy Review
A young girl’s journey to find a new home provides the road map for this enchanting animated story
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Reviews‘The Sea Beast’: Annecy Review
Chris Williams delivers a dazzling triumph for Netflix with this ripping monster yarn
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Reviews‘Aurora’s Sunrise’: Annecy Review
The remarkable life of Armenian genocide survivor Aurora Mardiganian is turned into a gripping animation
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Reviews‘The Black Pharaoh, The Savage And The Princess’: Annecy Review
Legendary French animator Michel Ocelot returns with three stories that span different eras and locales
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Reviews‘Minions: The Rise Of Gru’: Annecy Review
The ‘Despicable Me’ supervillain receives an appropriately silly origin story, joined by his slapstick friends
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Reviews‘Nayola’: Annecy Review
Stunning feature animation debut depicts the horror of war from a female perspective