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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: War for the Planet of the Apes

By Jonathan Romney
July 13, 2017
Origin of the species: the latest entry in the primate series confirms a whole new realm of expression and spectacle

Film of the Week: The Rehearsal

By Jonathan Romney
July 7, 2017
Not strictly method: Alison Maclean’s look inside an acting studio toys with theater clichés while hitting emotional truths

Film of the Week: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

By Jonathan Romney
June 30, 2017
Take two: Errol Morris’s portrait of a woman who photographed beat poets and families is as intimate as it is good-hearted

Film of the Week: My Journey Through French Cinema

By Jonathan Romney
June 23, 2017
Open book: filmmaker and superfan Bertrand Tavernier gives an insightful, free-flowing tour of French auteurs and history

Film of the Week: Funeral Parade of Roses

By Jonathan Romney
June 9, 2017
Exploding cinema: the unbridled Id of Toshio Matsumoto’s late-Sixties avant-queer freak-out thrives in a new restoration

Films of the Week: Cannes Week 2 – Russian Stories

By Jonathan Romney
May 26, 2017
Little Moscow on the Croisette: Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Loveless, and Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature stood out at the French fest

Films of the Week: Cannes – Week 1

By Jonathan Romney
May 19, 2017
The exception rules: the free spirits (and auteurism) of Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In, Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts, and Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara

Film of the Week: Manifesto

By Jonathan Romney
May 12, 2017
Woman of a thousand faces: Cate Blanchett's pop art-infused project transcends history and challenges notions of narrative

Film of the Week: A Woman’s Life

By Jonathan Romney
May 4, 2017
19th-century women: in Stéphane Brizé’s unsparing adaptation of Maupassant’s novel, a creeping loss of agency seems to unfold in real time

Film of the Week: Buster’s Mal Heart

By Jonathan Romney
April 27, 2017
Local legend: Rami Malek gives heart to the jittery, highy stylized tale of a family man turned apocalyptic Y2K nut

Film of the Week: By the Time It Gets Dark

By Jonathan Romney
April 13, 2017
Generations: excavating and recreating historical trauma, Anocha Suwichakornpong's formally daring feature moves between time and emotion

Film of the Week: All These Sleepless Nights

By Jonathan Romney
April 6, 2017
Can't hardly wait: Michal Marczak’s ambling toast to life lived at night captures the aimlessness of youth

Film of the Week: Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

By Jonathan Romney
March 30, 2017
Dots and loops: the avant-garde artist and musician is rightfully restored to prime view in a new documentary

Film of the Week: I, Olga Hepnarová

By Jonathan Romney
March 24, 2017
I'm not there: a film dramatizing the life of a Czechoslovakian mass-murderer never goes for the easy answers

Film of the Week: The Challenge

By Jonathan Romney
March 16, 2017
Inside the pleasure dome: the otherworldly wealth of Qatari sheikhs goes on display in this New Directors / New Films selection directed by Yuri Ancarani

Film of the Week: Suntan

By Jonathan Romney
March 10, 2017
Bikini bodies at the ready: Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s bitterly candid look at middle-aged male desire pulls no punches

The Material World

By Jonathan Romney
March 3, 2017
Olivier Assayas’s metaphysical drama searches for answers—and fresh questions—in a digital-spiritual realm

Film of the Week: Les Hautes Solitudes

By Jonathan Romney
February 23, 2017
Uneasy lovers: Jean Seberg stars in Philippe Garrel's 1974 silent study in counterpoint with three other performers

Festivals: Berlin

By Jonathan Romney
February 17, 2017
In their own way: a quartet of new films showcase unhappy families, including Sebastián Lelio's latest

Festivals: Rotterdam and Beyond

By Jonathan Romney
February 16, 2017
Eye-level in the lowlands: the Dutch festival had a bit of a lull, but a day-trip to a Béla Tarr exhibition yielded a pick-me-up