Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: Notes on an Appearance

By Jonathan Romney
August 16, 2018
Dossier cinema: Ricky D’Ambrose’s feature debut maps out bookish deadpan visual scheme in tracing a New York vanishing

Film of the Week: Nico, 1988

By Jonathan Romney
August 2, 2018
These days: Susanna Nicchiarelli’s film brings out the warmth in a singer usually identified with wintry discontent

Film of the Week: Cocote

By Jonathan Romney
July 27, 2018
Cycle of life: vengeance and injustice loom over a homecoming in a passionate new film from Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias

Film of the Week: The Third Murder

By Jonathan Romney
July 19, 2018
Open to interpretation: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s legal drama about a murder blurs the line between enigmatic and perhaps merely vague

Film of the Week: What Will People Say

By Jonathan Romney
July 13, 2018
Shock of the new: a free-spirited teen girl from an immigrant Muslim family in Norway must learn how to navigate tradition.

Film of the Week: Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

By Jonathan Romney
July 6, 2018
Symphony of life: a new documentary portrays the eminent composer as an engaging man of ideas (and all the right notes)

Film of the Week: Leave No Trace

By Jonathan Romney
June 29, 2018
No home movie: Debra Granik's resonant fiction feature about an off-the-grid family-unit tracks a teenage girl's growing independence from her survivalist father

Film of the Week: Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts 

By Jonathan Romney
June 21, 2018
Once upon a time in Indonesia: a woman takes revenge on her attackers in a precisely composed story of survival

Film of the Week: Araby

By Jonathan Romney
June 15, 2018
Road songs: a Brazilian laborer traverses the countryside looking for work in this layered tale of experience

Film of the Week: Ludwig

By Jonathan Romney
June 8, 2018
Swan song: Luchino Visconti’s sweeping portrait of an eccentric king takes in glorious, caged nobility

Film of the Week: One Sings, the Other Doesn’t

By Jonathan Romney
May 31, 2018
Songs from the heart: Agnès Varda's 1977 film of two friends from different walks of life made a soft landing at a revolutionary moment

Film of the Week: The Wild Pear Tree

By Jonathan Romney
May 18, 2018
Difficult people: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes follow-up to Winter Sleep approaches the novelistic

Film of the Week: Ash Is Purest White

By Jonathan Romney
May 13, 2018
Honor among thieves: Zhao Tao upholds the gangster’s creed even better than her man in Jia Zhangke’s latest

Film of the Week: Avengers: Infinity War

By Jonathan Romney
May 3, 2018
Beyond film: the Marvel machine’s latest offering isn’t product placement, but a series of connections

Film of the Week: Infinite Football

By Jonathan Romney
April 27, 2018
New rules: Corneliu Porumboiu’s spiraling documentary explores a utopian vision of sport—and much more—through an oddball civil servant

Film of the Week: Godard Mon Amour

By Jonathan Romney
April 20, 2018
Contempt: a goofy, glib pastiche of JLG in ’68 shows Garrel growing but otherwise rewards scrutiny with cringes

Film of the Week: Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami

By Jonathan Romney
April 12, 2018
Amazing Grace: a new documentary about the fearless, ageless performer celebrates her lifeforce on and off the stage

Film of the Week: Sweet Country

By Jonathan Romney
April 5, 2018
Australian pastoral: the racial tensions of the outback are laid bare in Warwick Thornton’s Western down under

Film of the Week: Ready Player One

By Jonathan Romney
March 30, 2018
Button mashing: Steven Spielberg’s hyperactive adaptation of the best-selling book packs a referential punch, but doesn’t convince with its final message

Film of the Week: Isle of Dogs

By Jonathan Romney
March 23, 2018
Heart of a dog: Wes Anderson’s latest makes the visual flourishes of his previous outings look like puppy chow