Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: Chinese Portrait

By Jonathan Romney

December 13, 2019

Ordinary people: Wang Xiaoshuai’s new film is an expansive, though fragmented, vision of contemporary China

Film of the Week: In Fabric

By Jonathan Romney

December 6, 2019

Dressed to kill: Peter Strickland’s latest is an essay in comic horror, pairing two stories about an apparently cursed or haunted red dress

Film of the Week: 63 Up

By Jonathan Romney

November 29, 2019

Lifetime piling up: Michael Apted's historic experiment in long-term biography enters the silver age with another ripping good installment, 63 Up

Film of the Week: Knives Out

By Jonathan Romney

November 21, 2019

Pointy objects: like a clever piece of stage conjuring, Knives Out is slight but hugely enjoyable

Film of the Week: Atlantics

By Jonathan Romney

November 14, 2019

Dancer in the dark: Mati Diop’s debut feature is undeniably one of the boldest films of the year, crackling with invention, beauty, and anger

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