Jonathan Robbins

Labyrinths

By Jonathan Robbins

March 4, 2014

Reality is up for grabs in Raúl Ruiz’s Life Is a Dream and The Blind Owl

Interview: Arnaud Desplechin

By Jonathan Robbins

February 7, 2014

The director of Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian talks in depth about styles of acting and expressing a sense of displacement

Review: Oldboy

By Jonathan Robbins

November 26, 2013

If you've never won a Grand Prix at Cannes, you can always remake a film that did

Short Takes: The Broken Circle Breakdown

By Jonathan Robbins

November 4, 2013

(Felix Van Groeningen, Belgium, 2012)

Review: The Counselor

By Jonathan Robbins

October 24, 2013

Javier Bardem dons yet another goofy haircut for Cormac McCarthy and Ridley Scott's new flick

Review: Kill Your Darlings

By Jonathan Robbins

October 18, 2013

John Krokidas's promising debut feature convulses with roiling Beat energies

Review: Parkland

By Jonathan Robbins

October 3, 2013

Four days in November: a chronicle of the multiple dramas radiating out from the Kennedy assassination

Review: Short Term 12

By Jonathan Robbins

August 23, 2013

Who analyzes the analyst? Brie Larson works out her own problems by helping troubled teens

Review: Prince Avalanche

By Jonathan Robbins

August 8, 2013

Walking the line: David Gordon Green's Rudd-Hirsch pair-up finds the filmmaker coming back down to earth

Review: Only God Forgives

By Jonathan Robbins

July 17, 2013

Blood begets blood in Nicolas Winding Refn's extended stylized collection of fight-scene money shots

Interview: Matías Piñeiro

By Jonathan Robbins

June 23, 2013

The director of Viola talks about working with friends, the women who pay him with sandwiches, and subtitles

Review: A Hijacking

By Jonathan Robbins

June 17, 2013

Drama on the high seas! But is it ship-shape?

Review: Paradise: Love

By Jonathan Robbins

April 29, 2013

All is not hakuna matata in Ulrich Seidl’s boy-toy playground

The World Viewed: 10 Years of Reverse Shot

By Jonathan Robbins

April 23, 2013

The pioneering online film journal enters its second decade of rigorous, heartfelt criticism

Interview: Emil Christov

By Jonathan Robbins

March 26, 2013

An informant for the secret police goes rogue in the Bulgarian director’s Cold War fantasia The Color of the Chameleon

Prime-Time Pick: Game Change

By Jonathan Robbins

March 9, 2013

(HBO, $19.97)

Review: The Unspeakable Act

By Jonathan Robbins

March 5, 2013

All in the family: a young woman's obsession with her brother is subtly depicted in Dan Sallitt's new feature

Interview: Sébastien Betbeder

By Jonathan Robbins

February 20, 2013

Love, alfresco: an interview with the director of Nights with Theodore, featured in Film Comment Selects

Interview: Antonio Campos

By Jonathan Robbins

February 18, 2013

Qu’est-ce que c’est? An in-depth conversation with the director of Simon Killer

Review: The Pirogue

By Jonathan Robbins

January 22, 2013

Senegalese documentarian Moussa Touré returns with a candid fictional feature