Jonathan Romney

Films of the Week: Kumiko & Jauja

March 19, 2015

Who's with me? Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja and the Zellner Brothers' Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter chart hypnotic journeys to new worlds

Film of the Week: It Follows

By Jonathan Romney

March 12, 2015

Invisible touch: David Robert Mitchell’s idiosyncratic suburban horror links sex and death through an ingenious, implacable force that will stop at nothing

Films of the Week: Two from Rendez-Vous

By Jonathan Romney

March 4, 2015

Jean Paul Civeyrac's beautiful but biting My Friend Victoria and Christophe Honoré's reimagining of Ovid's Metamorphoses

Film of the Week: Eastern Boys

By Jonathan Romney

February 26, 2015

Robin Campillo's brooding, exquisitely controlled drama of migrant sex work refuses any one interpretation

Film of the Week: Wild Tales

By Jonathan Romney

February 19, 2015

Damián Szifrón's vignette-based bestiary of human behavior nimbly juggles humor, action, and potent insights for universal consumption

Film of the Week: ’71

By Jonathan Romney

February 12, 2015

Troubling: Yann Demange's bleak Northern Ireland tale of fight or flight is buoyed by its quasi-documentary approach

Film of the Week: Hard to Be a God

By Jonathan Romney

January 28, 2015

The filth and the fury: Aleksei German's final film is an orgy of Bruegelian grotesqueries

Film of the Week: The Duke of Burgundy

By Jonathan Romney

January 21, 2015

Peter Strickland reimagines Seventies Euro erotica in his latest meticulous pastiche

Film of the Week: Gangs of Wasseypur

By Jonathan Romney

January 16, 2015

Of blood feuds and fossil fuels: Anurag Kashyap's Indian crime epic is a true powerhouse

Film of the Week: When Evening Falls on Bucharest

By Jonathan Romney

January 7, 2015

...or Metabolism. Romanian new waver Corneliu Porumboiu returns with a navel-gazing reflection on film form and actress-auteur relations

Film of the Week: Leviathan

By Jonathan Romney

December 31, 2014

The lower depths: Andrey Zvyagintsev's intelligent, brilliantly acted film plunges into the intoxicating bleakness of the contemporary Russian soul

Romney’s 2014 Roundup

By Jonathan Romney

December 23, 2014

What just happened? A look back at the year's liveliest, politically challenging films—and a few that weren't

Film of the Week: Into the Woods

By Jonathan Romney

December 19, 2014

Trick of the tale: Rob Marshall's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical lacks the original's edginess

Films of the Week: Maidan and We Are the Giant

By Jonathan Romney

December 11, 2014

Radical views: two documentaries go deeper inside recent protests than social or news media dares

Film of the Week: A Most Violent Year

By Jonathan Romney

December 5, 2014

An early look at the past: J.C. Chandor's superb Fear City-era mob tale

Film of the Week: The Babadook

By Jonathan Romney

November 26, 2014

Maternal instincts: Jennifer Kent's debut feature makes allusions to the best of Gothic horror

Film of the Week: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

By Jonathan Romney

November 19, 2014

Out from the shadows: Ana Lily Amirpour's first feature effortlessly mixes Eastern and Western codes to brilliant effect

Film of the Week: Foxcatcher

By Jonathan Romney

November 14, 2014

The sporting life: Bennett Miller's true crime story makes some salient points about class amidst the one-percenter eccentricity

Film of the Week: Interstellar

By Jonathan Romney

November 5, 2014

Beyond the stars: examining the ambrosial trances and simplistic failings of Christopher Nolan's latest tour de force

Film of the Week: Goodbye to Language

By Jonathan Romney

October 29, 2014

There's life in the old dog yet: grappling with Godard's latest text