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Jonathan Romney

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

Film of the Week: Late Night

By Jonathan Romney
June 7, 2019
Behind the desk: as a film about the business of comedy, Late Night is not that funny

Film of the Week: Rocketman

By Jonathan Romney
May 31, 2019
Can you feel the love: the Elton John biopic is a cannily honed machine, like a flawlessly staged Broadway show

Film of the Week: Oh Mercy!

By Jonathan Romney
May 24, 2019
Cops and robbers: with his latest, a film policier, Arnaud Desplechin explicitly comes to terms with the world, in a very personal way

Film of the Week: Bacurau

By Jonathan Romney
May 17, 2019
It takes a village: though ungainly and sometimes ugly, there‘s a lot to admire in Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘s Cannes entry

Film of the Week: Pasolini

By Jonathan Romney
May 10, 2019
Leather and lace: it’s unlikely that many will be scandalized, pleasurably or otherwise, by Abel Ferrara’s tribute to the late Italian filmmaker

Film of the Week: Meeting Gorbachev

By Jonathan Romney
May 3, 2019
Meeting of minds: Werner Herzog's film tends to present the world leader as a cuddly, jolly uncle among politicians

Directions: New Haunts

By Jonathan Romney
May 1, 2019
Stray Dogs master Tsai Ming-liang pushes into the virtual realm and the great beyond

Film of the Week: Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible

By Jonathan Romney
April 26, 2019
Disappearing act: the Lebanese film could be called a speculative documentary, an essay film, or a conceptual art piece

Film of the Week: Long Day’s Journey Into Night

By Jonathan Romney
April 12, 2019
In dreams: Bi Gan's noir fable abandons narrative transparency in favor of a poetic dream logic

Film of the Week: The Wind

By Jonathan Romney
April 5, 2019
Home on the range: Emma Tammi's new movie blends horror and Western genre elements, not always successfully

Film of the Week: Diane

By Jonathan Romney
March 29, 2019
Not dark yet: Kent Jones's Diane is an altogether sober film, a drama about ageing that is nothing less than ice-water unsentimental

Film of the Week: Dragged Across Concrete

By Jonathan Romney
March 22, 2019
The thin blue line: S. Craig Zahler’s brutally violent cop film surfaces uncomfortable questions about racism, power, and complicity

Film of the Week: Combat Obscura

By Jonathan Romney
March 15, 2019
Combat fatigue: Miles Lagoze’s Afghanistan documentary shows the boredom and brutality of endless war

Interview: Ilya Khrzhanovsky

By Jonathan Romney
March 13, 2019
The mind behind the massively ambitious Dau discusses the mysterious, "pluridisciplinary" project

Film of the Week: An Elephant Sitting Still

By Jonathan Romney
March 8, 2019
Magic and loss: the late Hu Bo's masterpiece is filled with extraordinary beauty, invention, and grace

Film of the Week: Transit

By Jonathan Romney
March 1, 2019
The illusionist: Christian Petzold's latest is effectively two different films, depending on what you think you’re seeing

Film of the Week: Between the Lines

By Jonathan Romney
February 22, 2019
Faded glory: Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 crackling ensemble piece shows how some things never change

Film of the Week: Varda par Agnès

By Jonathan Romney
February 15, 2019
Mirror image: the latest from the irrepressible filmmaker isn’t exactly a self-portrait, but a set of discursive and contemplative footnotes to her work and life

Film of the Week: Lords of Chaos

By Jonathan Romney
February 8, 2019
Devil in the details: Jonas Åkerlund's black metal biopic provides shallow laughs but, like its main character, drifts out of its depth