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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: Marriage Story

By Jonathan Romney
November 7, 2019
Love on the rocks: Noah Baumbach’s latest is witty, reveling in a mischievous sense of fun, and harrowing in its view of spousal difference

Film of the Week: The Irishman

By Jonathan Romney
November 1, 2019
It is what it is: Martin Scorsese’s epic is an extraordinary feat of rejuvenation, and not just because of the digital effects that turned its lead actors back into young(ish) men

Film of the Week: Burning Cane

By Jonathan Romney
October 24, 2019
Saving grace: 19-year-old Phillip Youmans’s debut has a rough-edged dynamism and emotional intensity

Film of the Week: Jojo Rabbit

By Jonathan Romney
October 18, 2019
Little monsters: Taika Waititi's latest seems to believe that fascism is a bad joke that can be overcome with good humor

Film of the Week: In My Room

By Jonathan Romney
October 10, 2019
Last man standing: Ulrich Köhler’s latest is an unusually low-key vision of the end of the world—or at least, the end of someone’s world

Film of the Week: Rose Plays Julie

By Jonathan Romney
October 4, 2019
Hall of mirrors: Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor continue to cultivate an uncanny echo-chamber effect in their latest project

Film of the Week: First Love

By Jonathan Romney
September 26, 2019
Typical perversity: Takashi Miike’s 103rd film is best encapsulated by a close-up of a severed head wreathed in a goofy grin

Film of the Week: Ad Astra

By Jonathan Romney
September 19, 2019
Child is father to the man: James Gray’s cosmic adventure flick is, at heart, a primal tale of a boy and his dad

Film of the Week: The Sound of Silence

By Jonathan Romney
September 13, 2019
Listen up: Michael Tyburski’s first feature is a delicate character study that yields strange, stimulating ideas about noise and quiet

Film of the Week: Babyteeth

By Jonathan Romney
September 6, 2019
Faith healer: director Shannon Murphy's Venice competition debut turns the story of a stricken teenager and her wild paramour into something fresh and bright

Film of the Week: An Officer and a Spy

By Jonathan Romney
August 30, 2019
Courtroom drama: Roman Polanski's latest film, a Venice world premiere, surehandedly recounts the Dreyfus Affair and its story of a French army captain's anti-Semitic persecution

Film of the Week: The Cremator

By Jonathan Romney
August 8, 2019
Danse macabre: Juraj Herz's bracingly modern, anti-realist film lies on the delicate border between horror and social satire

Film of the Week: Tel Aviv on Fire

By Jonathan Romney
August 1, 2019
Conversational divide: Sameh Zoabi’s comedy engages with questions of history, politics, and cultural difference—and similarity

Film of the Week: Chalk

By Jonathan Romney
July 26, 2019
Calling the shots: Rob Nilsson’s 1996 atmospheric pool-hall drama is a crackling gem

Film of the Week: “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”

By Jonathan Romney
July 18, 2019
Memory loss: Radu Jude's latest contends with the ways in which recreating the past can obscure history's meaning

Film of the Week: Rojo

By Jonathan Romney
July 12, 2019
Disappearing act: thinking you know where you are with Benjamín Naishtat’s latest can lead you up the wrong path

Film of the Week: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

By Jonathan Romney
July 4, 2019
True love leaves no traces: Nick Broomfield’s documentary reflects on the complex relationship between an artist and a muse

Film of the Week: Yesterday

By Jonathan Romney
June 28, 2019
An easy game to play: is Danny Boyle's alternate-reality tale of a world without Beatles more than a clever conceit?

Film of the Week: The Plagiarists

By Jonathan Romney
June 21, 2019
Infinite regress: Peter Parlow’s curious micro-budget provocation offers plenty to chew over

Film of the Week: Give Me Liberty

By Jonathan Romney
June 14, 2019
Democratic vistas: Kirill Mikhanovsky’s film is relentless and exhausting—but it’s also a joyous, tender blast