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Jonathan Romney

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

Film of the Week: High Life

By Jonathan Romney
September 28, 2018
Intergalactic: Claire Denis sends Robert Pattinson, Juliette Binoche, and crewmembers on a journey into the unknown

Film of the Week: Mandy

By Jonathan Romney
September 21, 2018
Smash the looking-glass: Panos Cosmatos's enjoyably gnarly sub-metal freak-out very much wants you to know how strange it is

Film of the Week: The Public Image Is Rotten

By Jonathan Romney
September 14, 2018
Appetite for destruction: a new documentary about the Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited frontman mostly plays the hits

Venice Film of the Week: Sunset

By Jonathan Romney
September 7, 2018
Empire of the senses: Laszlo Nemes’s wholly audacious second feature sends its indefatigable protagonist into the Mitteleuropean mysteries of 1910s Budapest

Venice Film of the Week: ROMA

By Jonathan Romney
August 31, 2018
Family portrait: Alfonso Cuarón re-creates the past on a grand yet intimate scale through the eyes of a Mexico City housekeeper

Film of the Week: Let the Corpses Tan

By Jonathan Romney
August 30, 2018
Shots fired: Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani orchestrate another bravura comic-strip-like exercise in turbo-charged style and retro fetish

Film of the Week: Notes on an Appearance

By Jonathan Romney
August 16, 2018
Dossier cinema: Ricky D’Ambrose’s feature debut maps out bookish deadpan visual scheme in tracing a New York vanishing

Film of the Week: Nico, 1988

By Jonathan Romney
August 2, 2018
These days: Susanna Nicchiarelli’s film brings out the warmth in a singer usually identified with wintry discontent

Film of the Week: Cocote

By Jonathan Romney
July 27, 2018
Cycle of life: vengeance and injustice loom over a homecoming in a passionate new film from Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias

Film of the Week: The Third Murder

By Jonathan Romney
July 19, 2018
Open to interpretation: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s legal drama about a murder blurs the line between enigmatic and perhaps merely vague

Film of the Week: What Will People Say

By Jonathan Romney
July 13, 2018
Shock of the new: a free-spirited teen girl from an immigrant Muslim family in Norway must learn how to navigate tradition.

Film of the Week: Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda

By Jonathan Romney
July 6, 2018
Symphony of life: a new documentary portrays the eminent composer as an engaging man of ideas (and all the right notes)

Film of the Week: Leave No Trace

By Jonathan Romney
June 29, 2018
No home movie: Debra Granik's resonant fiction feature about an off-the-grid family-unit tracks a teenage girl's growing independence from her survivalist father

Film of the Week: Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts 

By Jonathan Romney
June 21, 2018
Once upon a time in Indonesia: a woman takes revenge on her attackers in a precisely composed story of survival

Film of the Week: Araby

By Jonathan Romney
June 15, 2018
Road songs: a Brazilian laborer traverses the countryside looking for work in this layered tale of experience

Film of the Week: Ludwig

By Jonathan Romney
June 8, 2018
Swan song: Luchino Visconti’s sweeping portrait of an eccentric king takes in glorious, caged nobility

Film of the Week: One Sings, the Other Doesn’t

By Jonathan Romney
May 31, 2018
Songs from the heart: Agnès Varda's 1977 film of two friends from different walks of life made a soft landing at a revolutionary moment

Film of the Week: The Wild Pear Tree

By Jonathan Romney
May 18, 2018
Difficult people: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Cannes follow-up to Winter Sleep approaches the novelistic