Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: Right Now, Wrong Then

June 17, 2016

Infinite regress: Hong Sangsoo's variations on the theme of frustrated love suggest that we shouldn't get caught up in the details

Film of the Week: The Wailing

By Jonathan Romney

June 2, 2016

Screaming good: Na Hong-jin's self-aware, rural horror tale blurs the line between laughs and scares

Film of the Week: Chevalier

By Jonathan Romney

May 27, 2016

Game of bros: Athina Rachel Tsangari's acerbic deconstruction of male ego goes all the way

Films of the Week: Romania Redux

By Jonathan Romney

May 19, 2016

New borders: films by Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, and Bogdan Mirica are redrawing the map of Romanian cinema at Cannes

Film of the Week: Love & Friendship

By Jonathan Romney

May 12, 2016

Lady is a tramp: Whit Stillman's briskly paced Jane Austen adaptation announces itself as a costumed cinematic lark

Film of the Week: Dheepan

By Jonathan Romney

May 5, 2016

Citizens of the world: Jacques Audiard's immigration drama falters when it veers away from the makeshift family at its center

Hearth and Home

By Jonathan Romney

May 3, 2016

In Sunset Song, Terence Davies renders a young woman’s loves and strife with grandeur and austerity

Film of the Week: Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands

By Jonathan Romney

April 27, 2016

Despair: candid interviews with Fassbinder's friends are the primary highlight of Christian Braad Thomsen’s documentary about the prolific, mercurial filmmaker

Film of the Week: Neon Bull

By Jonathan Romney

April 21, 2016

High in the saddle: set deep in the world of Brazilian rodeo, Gabriel Mascaro's explicit drama grabs sexuality by the horns

Film of the Week: Wrong Move

By Jonathan Romney

April 15, 2016

Distance learning: Wim Wenders's offbeat and unrepentantly Romantic adaptation of Goethe gets a special theatrical run

Film of the Week: Afternoon

By Jonathan Romney

April 1, 2016

Everyday people: Tsai Ming-liang and his acteur fétiche Lee Kang-sheng chat about their long-running screen partnership

Film of the Week: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

By Jonathan Romney

March 24, 2016

Worlds collide—over and over and over again—in Zack Snyder's drearily epic superfranchise team-up

Film of the Week: Midnight Special

By Jonathan Romney

March 17, 2016

Bolt of blue: Jeff Nichols fashions a science-fiction road movie out of light and magic

Film of the Week: Winter Song

By Jonathan Romney

March 9, 2016

Carnival of souls: Otar Iosseliani returns with another elaborately orchestrated ensemble piece that sends up the human condition

Film of the Week: Cemetery of Splendor

By Jonathan Romney

March 3, 2016

Sleep furiously: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film takes us on a restless, beautiful, and unnerving journey

Films of the Week: Two from Berlin

By Jonathan Romney

February 22, 2016

Battle cries: Rafi Pitts's Soy Nero and Ivo M. Ferreira’s Letters From War stood out at this year's festival

Film of the Week: Mountains May Depart

By Jonathan Romney

February 11, 2016

The march of time: Jia Zhang-ke traverse three eras to take the emotional pulse of those affected by economic miracles and widespread upheaval

Film of the Week: Eisenstein in Guanajuato

By Jonathan Romney

February 4, 2016

Behind the scenes: the über-formalist reimagines the Soviet director's Mexican awakening

Film of the Week: Rabin, The Last Day

By Jonathan Romney

January 27, 2016

Parallax views: Amos Gitai reconstructs the Israeli prime minister's assassination to trace the wrenching fractures in an embattled nation

Film of the Week: Aferim!

By Jonathan Romney

January 20, 2016

The past is a very foreign country in Romanian New Waver Radu Jude's brutally true-to-life journey across a medieval-like 19th-century Eastern Europe