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Jonathan Romney

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

Film of the Week: Los Reyes

By Jonathan Romney
February 1, 2019
Kings of their world: a doc about two dogs and a skate park reveals the accretion of remarkable details that make up daily life

Film of the Week: Jessica Forever

By Jonathan Romney
January 24, 2019
Unidentifiable filmic object: a den mother and her brood navigate a dystopian future in this unclassifiable film screening February 8 in Film Comment Selects

Film of the Week: Glass

By Jonathan Romney
January 18, 2019
All too superhuman: M. Night Shyamalan has nerve choosing Glass as the title for a film so unashamedly non-transparent

Film of the Week: The Heiresses

By Jonathan Romney
January 11, 2019
Rearranging the deckchairs: two middle-aged Paraguayan women cling to a semblance of respectable society amidst dysfunction

Film of the Week: Destroyer

By Jonathan Romney
December 25, 2018
Hard case: Nicole Kidman becomes a wraith-like detective in Karyn Kusama's repetitive mystery

Film of the Week: Vice

By Jonathan Romney
December 21, 2018
Eminence grise: Adam McKay's timeline take-down of former Vice President and Halliburton honcho Dick Cheney struggles to shine a light on its shadowy subject

Film of the Week: The House That Jack Built

By Jonathan Romney
December 14, 2018
House specialty: Lars von Trier is back with a serial killer story starring Matt Dillon and featuring a kind of running commentary on itself

Film of the Week: Happy as Lazzaro

By Jonathan Romney
November 29, 2018
Babe in the woods: Alice Rohrwacher's stunning new film works a kind of magic in following an innocent sharecropper into the wilds of modernity

Film of the Week: Green Book

By Jonathan Romney
November 23, 2018
End of the tour: as driver and musician, Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali take a well-meaning story about racism as far as it can go

Film of the Week: Widows

By Jonathan Romney
November 16, 2018
Role reversal: Steve McQueen goes mainstream for a slick, socially conscious thriller with a great cast—but which strains plausibility

Film of the Week: El Angel

By Jonathan Romney
November 8, 2018
Pretty murderous: a photogenic killer gets the grand, slick treatment from Argentine director Luis Ortega

Film of the Week: Bohemian Rhapsody

By Jonathan Romney
November 2, 2018
The day the music died: the biopic of Freddie Mercury is nearly fascinating for its distortion of pop history and blithe deployment of wan clichés

Film of the Week: Shirkers

By Jonathan Romney
October 26, 2018
Living in oblivion: filmmaker Sandi Tan retraces the bizarre mystery of the bodacious indie gem she made in the '90s with friends and a mystery man

Film of the Week: They Shall Not Grow Old

By Jonathan Romney
October 19, 2018
Digital poppies: Peter Jackson's controversial film project attempts to revive the voices of World War I through colorization and other effects

Film of the Week: Classical Period

By Jonathan Romney
October 12, 2018
In seminar: Ted Fendt's second feature cedes the floor to three scholars in a faithful depiction of the life of the mind

Film of the Week: Bad Times at the El Royale

By Jonathan Romney
October 5, 2018
Room service: Drew Goddard constructs a hotel partly made of ham in this exercise in retro doll-housing