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Jonathan Romney

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

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