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Jonathan Romney
Film of the Week: Rojo
By
Jonathan Romney
July 12, 2019
Disappearing act: thinking you know where you are with Benjamín Naishtat’s latest can lead you up the wrong path
Film of the Week: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love
By
Jonathan Romney
July 4, 2019
True love leaves no traces: Nick Broomfield’s documentary reflects on the complex relationship between an artist and a muse
Film of the Week: Yesterday
By
Jonathan Romney
June 28, 2019
An easy game to play: is Danny Boyle's alternate-reality tale of a world without Beatles more than a clever conceit?
Film of the Week: The Plagiarists
By
Jonathan Romney
June 21, 2019
Infinite regress: Peter Parlow’s curious micro-budget provocation offers plenty to chew over
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
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