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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: The Great Beauty

By Jonathan Romney
November 14, 2013
It's bunga bunga time: the exquisite emptiness of Sorrentino's latest baroque comedy

Film of the Week: How I Live Now

By Jonathan Romney
November 7, 2013
Growing up fast: the horrors of war on England's pleasant pastures

Film of the Week: Le Week-End

By Jonathan Romney
October 30, 2013
Roger Mitchell's Parisian outing is more than a cutesy, graying Brit-com

Film of the Week: Bastards

By Jonathan Romney
October 25, 2013
Night breed: Claire Denis's latest film takes us into a darkness

Film of the Week: Camille Claudel 1915

By Jonathan Romney
October 17, 2013
Juliette Binoche gets committed in what might be Bruno Dumont’s finest work

Film of the Week: Captain Phillips

By Jonathan Romney
October 9, 2013
Paul Greengrass and Tom Hanks bring present-tense urgency to the true-life tale of a hijacking

Film of the Week: A Touch of Sin

By Jonathan Romney
October 2, 2013
Four corners: Jia Zhang-ke courts Sino-kitsch and gory wuxia

Film of the Week: Rush

By Jonathan Romney
September 26, 2013
Never mind NASCAR, there's life in Ron Howard yet

Film of the Week: Prisoners

By Jonathan Romney
September 19, 2013
Denis Villeneuve's small-town crime drama balances nightmare and naturalism

Film of the Week: The Last Time I Saw Macao

By Jonathan Romney
September 12, 2013
João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata's team effort plays with Orientalism, saudade, and sexuality

Review: Alan Partridge

By Jonathan Romney
August 22, 2013
(Declan Lowney, U.K., 2013)

Last Exit to Finland

By Jonathan Romney
June 3, 2011
The bleak comedic genius of Aki Kaurismäki, Finland’s finest

Review: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

By Jonathan Romney
May 27, 2011
(Woody Allen, U.S./Spain, 2008)