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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: Montparnasse Bienvenüe

By Jonathan Romney
March 8, 2018
Growing pains: Léonor Serraille’s rollicking Cannes winner, screening in Rendez-Vous, presents a vibrant portrait of a young Parisian woman at loose ends

Interview: Lynne Ramsay

By Jonathan Romney
March 5, 2018
In the cut: the writer-director of You Were Never Really Here talks about the film’s post-Cannes polish and echoes of Lazarus

Film of the Week: Rey

By Jonathan Romney
March 2, 2018
King and country: a self-mythologizing adventurer’s tale is retold (again and again) in Niles Atallah’s experimental feature

Film of the Week: Wild Boys

By Jonathan Romney
February 23, 2018
Flaming creatures: making its New York premiere at Film Comment Selects, Bertrand Mandico’s tropical fantasia is dandy hedonism

Film of the Week: Western

By Jonathan Romney
February 16, 2018
Manifest misunderstandings: Valeska Grisebach’s tough and tender film subtly plays with genre tropes and economic unrest in Eastern Europe

Film of the Week: The Wandering Soap Opera

By Jonathan Romney
February 9, 2018
Finishing touches: the final final film by Raúl Ruiz, completed after his death by Valeria Sarmiento, is a complexly sudsy affair

Film of the Week: Before We Vanish

By Jonathan Romney
February 2, 2018
Dangerous minds: Kiyoshi Kurosawa returns with a sometimes comic tale about the liberating aspects of alien invasion

Film of the Week: A Ciambra

By Jonathan Romney
January 25, 2018
In praise of shaggy dogs: Jonas Carpignano’s follow-up to Mediterranea follows the lives of a Roma community in Italy with loving detail

Film of the Week: The Green Fog

By Jonathan Romney
January 12, 2018
Retracing the master’s steps: Guy Maddin and Evan and Galen Johnson’s latest collaboration twists Vertigo and other cinematic representations of San Francisco around themselves

Film of the Week: Phantom Thread

By Jonathan Romney
January 5, 2018
Bizarre love triangle: Paul Thomas Anderson inverts and darkens the standard yarn about artists and models

Film of the Week: Molly’s Game

By Jonathan Romney
December 21, 2017
Poker face: Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut is at times too literal but Jessica Chastain’s cool shines through

Film of the Week: Wormwood

By Jonathan Romney
December 15, 2017
Redacted: Errol Morris’s investigation of the unexplained death of a bacteriologist in 1953 is a head-spinning plunge into the nature of truth

Film of the Week: Quest

By Jonathan Romney
December 8, 2017
The sounds of home: a 10-year chronicle of a Philadelphia family offers a nuanced look at urban African-American life

Film of the Week: The Other Side of Hope

By Jonathan Romney
November 30, 2017
Foreign body: Aki Kaurismäki’s exploration of the European migrant crisis re-infuses his style with genuine pathos

Film of the Week: Call Me by Your Name

By Jonathan Romney
November 24, 2017
I am love (and nothing more): Luca Guadagnino’s imagining of a gay teenager’s first time is too idyllic to be moving

Film of the Week: On the Beach at Night Alone

By Jonathan Romney
November 17, 2017
Upside down you’re turning me: Hong Sangsoo explores feelings of love, lust, and broken hearts in a film that nods to his own personal affairs

Film of the Week: Murder on the Orient Express

By Jonathan Romney
November 9, 2017
Eurovision: Kenneth Branagh’s ostentatious reimagining of Poirot offers no new twists

Film of the Week: Thor: Ragnarok

By Jonathan Romney
November 3, 2017
Can’t you feel the thunder? Taika Waititi’s crack at a Marvel franchise is a good joke but doesn’t always sustain momentum

Inner Voice

By Jonathan Romney
November 3, 2017
French-Senegalese filmmaker Alain Gomis expands upon his ambiguous cinema of experience and identity with Félicité, the story of a Kinshasa singer in crisis

Film of the Week: Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold

By Jonathan Romney
October 27, 2017
As it lays: Griffin Dunne’s portrait of his aunt offers poignant insight into the writer’s life and career