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Jonathan Romney

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

Festivals: Locarno

By Jonathan Romney
September 6, 2016
Band of outsiders: this year's lakeside fest boasted strong, strange offerings from Argentina and elsewhere

Film of the Week: Happy Hour

By Jonathan Romney
August 26, 2016
Relaxed fit: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s five-hour exploration of middle-aged female friendship lets us live with its drama

Film of the Week: Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

By Jonathan Romney
August 18, 2016
Let's go surfing: Werner Herzog pontificates on the philosophical implications of the Internet

Films of the Week: Locarno Sex Romp Edition!

By Jonathan Romney
August 12, 2016
Heat wave: Akihiko Shiota's roman porno homage Wet Woman in the Wind and Tetsuya Mariko's frenetic Destruction Babies shake up established notions of contemporary Japanese film

Film of the Week: Little Men

By Jonathan Romney
August 5, 2016
Neighborhood watch: Ira Sachs's delicate drama of friendship and class in a gentrifying Brooklyn glides along with precocious performances

Film of the Week: On the Silver Globe

By Jonathan Romney
July 19, 2016
From another planet: an early look at Andrzej Zulawski's magnificent, mad, science-fiction film maudit, returning to screens in a new restoration

Film of the Week: Café Society

By Jonathan Romney
July 14, 2016
Behind the grind: Woody Allen's lush and lovingly shot romp through 1930s Hollywood offers many pleasures for his true fans

Film of the Week: Our Little Sister

By Jonathan Romney
July 8, 2016
Sweet songs of sad thought: Kore-eda's latest understated chamber drama gets to the heart of sibling dynamics

Film of the Week: Microbe & Gasoline

By Jonathan Romney
June 30, 2016
Have shack, will travel: Michel Gondry's kid-sized road movie tilts pleasurably from precious to personal

Film of the Week: Les Cowboys

By Jonathan Romney
June 24, 2016
Never go home again: Thomas Bidegain's economical neo-western redraws the maps—geographical and psychological—to reflect a post-9/11 world

Film of the Week: Right Now, Wrong Then

By Jonathan Romney
June 17, 2016
Infinite regress: Hong Sangsoo's variations on the theme of frustrated love suggest that we shouldn't get caught up in the details

Film of the Week: The Wailing

By Jonathan Romney
June 2, 2016
Screaming good: Na Hong-jin's self-aware, rural horror tale blurs the line between laughs and scares

Film of the Week: Chevalier

By Jonathan Romney
May 27, 2016
Game of bros: Athina Rachel Tsangari's acerbic deconstruction of male ego goes all the way

Films of the Week: Romania Redux

By Jonathan Romney
May 19, 2016
New borders: films by Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, and Bogdan Mirica are redrawing the map of Romanian cinema at Cannes

Film of the Week: Love & Friendship

By Jonathan Romney
May 12, 2016
Lady is a tramp: Whit Stillman's briskly paced Jane Austen adaptation announces itself as a costumed cinematic lark

Film of the Week: Dheepan

By Jonathan Romney
May 5, 2016
Citizens of the world: Jacques Audiard's immigration drama falters when it veers away from the makeshift family at its center

Hearth and Home

By Jonathan Romney
May 3, 2016
In Sunset Song, Terence Davies renders a young woman’s loves and strife with grandeur and austerity