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Jonathan Romney

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

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