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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: The Lure

By Jonathan Romney
February 2, 2017
Siren song: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s delirious, murderous musical harkens back to the cinema du look, Hans Christian Andersen, and much more

Film of the Week: Staying Vertical

By Jonathan Romney
January 26, 2017
Country life: Stranger by the Lake director Alain Guiraudie spins a footloose and fanciful yarn that obeys a surreal logic

Film of the Week: Split

By Jonathan Romney
January 19, 2017
And you are...? M. Night Shyamalan returns to form with an entertaining but absurd thriller

Film of the Week: Paterson

By Jonathan Romney
December 28, 2016
Round and round: the new Jim Jarmusch film finds the art in routine for a poetic New Jersey bus driver's life

Film of the Week: I, Daniel Blake

By Jonathan Romney
December 21, 2016
Friends on benefits: Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner offers a complex drama about the injustice of the U.K.'s social welfare system

Film of the Week: Neruda

By Jonathan Romney
December 15, 2016
Circular ruins: Pablo Larraín's anti-biopic of one of Chile's greatest poets is grandly dreamlike

Film of the Week: Lost and Beautiful

By Jonathan Romney
December 8, 2016
Milk of human kindness: Pietro Marcello's magical realist hybrid tale starring a calf is unabashedly poetic

Film of the Week: The Eyes of My Mother

By Jonathan Romney
December 1, 2016
Horror begins at home: Nicolas Pesce’s tantalizingly oblique debut leads you down the rabbit hole of family history

Film of the Week: Always Shine

By Jonathan Romney
November 23, 2016
Bad timing: Sophia Takal smartly deconstructs the male gaze through the familiar trope of female doppelgängers

Film of the Week: I Am Not Madame Bovary

By Jonathan Romney
November 18, 2016
Bureaucratic oath: Feng Xiaogang’s film about a woman seeking a divorce shows the labyrinthine realities of today's China, but not much else

Film of the Week: Arrival

By Jonathan Romney
November 10, 2016
Found in translation: Denis Villeneuve’s alien encounter flick offers up thoughtful ideas about cinema, language, and empathy

Film of the Week: Doctor Strange

By Jonathan Romney
November 3, 2016
Turn on, tune in: Marvel's mystical-metaphysical superhero reaches the big screen without any compromises

Film of the Week: Into the Inferno

By Jonathan Romney
October 28, 2016
Doomsday profit: Werner Herzog puts his apocalyptic touch on another, volcanic force of nature

Film of the Week: King Cobra

By Jonathan Romney
October 21, 2016
Young buns: the trueish tale of a gay porn actor's attempt to make it gets at some larger, uncomfortable truths

Film of the Week: Certain Women

By Jonathan Romney
October 13, 2016
Rainy day women: Kelly Reichardt's triptych finds the flow of moments in three stories by Maile Meloy

Film of the Week: The Greasy Strangler

By Jonathan Romney
October 6, 2016
Dare to be stupid: Jim Hosking's irredeemable and weird father-son whatsit is just silly enough

Film of the Week: Son of Joseph

By Jonathan Romney
September 29, 2016
A whole nother vein: Eugène Green's Shakespearean-tinged story of filial frustration shows the director's formal hallmarks in beguiling full effect

Film of the Week: Playground

By Jonathan Romney
September 26, 2016
Caution, children: the cruelties of youth prompted many walkouts at San Sebastian

Film of the Week: Chan Is Missing

By Jonathan Romney
September 14, 2016
High and low: Wayne Wang’s exploration of Chinese-American identity remains as fresh and insightful as it was in 1982

Film of the Week: The Untamed

By Jonathan Romney
September 9, 2016
The call of Cthulhu: Amat Escalante wraps science fiction around family drama and doesn't let go