All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 9
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Reviews‘The Worst Man In London’: Rotterdam Review
Real-life art dealer Charles Augustus Howell is the eponymous cad of this 19th-century period piece
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Reviews‘Flathead’: Rotterdam Review
Docu-fiction follows a raddled septuagenarian returning to his blue-collar childhood home in Australia
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Reviews‘Milk Teeth’: Rotterdam Review
A child threatens the security of an isolated village in this atmospheric feature debut from Swiss director Sophia Bosch
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Reviews‘Head South’: Rotterdam Review
A teenage boy embraces New Zealand’s late Seventies post-punk scene in Jonathan Oglivie’s Rotterdam opener
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Reviews‘Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat’: Sundance Review
Outstanding documentary ties the democratic movement in Africa in the 1960s with Black US musicians used by the CIA as pawns in the Cold War
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Reviews‘Union’: Sundance Review
Stirring documentary follows Amazon workers in New York as they attempt to unionise
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Reviews‘Sujo’: Sundance Review
A Mexican boy must fight against the temptation of local gangs in this satisfying drama
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Reviews‘Ibelin’: Sundance Review
Norwegian documentary uncovers the full extent of a hardcore gamer’s online life after his untimely death
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2023: Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide joined Screen in 2015 as a UK-based critic, and is also the chief film critic for The Observer.
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Reviews‘Norah’: Red Sea Review
Accomplished debut set in spectacular AlUla tracks the fallout from an exciting new arrival in a remote Saudi village
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Reviews‘Three’: Red Sea Review
Djinn genre outing from Dubai focuses on a clash between Western medicine and Arabic tradition
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Reviews‘Familiar’: Tallinn Review
A Romanian director attempts to shape his family’s darkest secrets into a film in the abrasive latest from Calin Peter Netzer
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Reviews‘The Moon Is Upside Down’: Tallinn Review
The lives of three lonely New Zealand women intersect in Tallinn’s First Feature winner
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Reviews‘Once Again’ (for the very first time)’: Tallinn Review
A street dancer and a poet form a creative connection in Boaz Yakin’s unconventional New York romance
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Reviews‘Bad Actor’: Tallinn Review
Intense Mexican drama observes what happens when an actor crosses a line during a sex scene
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Reviews‘The G’: Tallinn Review
Dale Dickey shines as a pensioner woman determined to take revenge on those who would exploit her
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Reviews‘Misericordia’: Tallinn Review
Three Italian sex workers care for a vulnerable man in Emma Dante’s allegorical third feature
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Reviews‘The Quiet Maid’: Tallinn Review
The Colombian maid for a wealthy Spanish family begins to expand her own horizons in this accomplished debut
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Reviews‘Patient #1’: Tallinn Review
A young nurse in Moscow at the end of the Soviet era struggles to care for a VIP patient
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Reviews‘Air’: Tokyo Review
Alexey German Jr focuses on female Russian pilots in this surprsingly conventional Second World War drama