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Jonathan Romney

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

Film of the Week: Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands

By Jonathan Romney
April 27, 2016
Despair: candid interviews with Fassbinder's friends are the primary highlight of Christian Braad Thomsen’s documentary about the prolific, mercurial filmmaker

Film of the Week: Neon Bull

By Jonathan Romney
April 21, 2016
High in the saddle: set deep in the world of Brazilian rodeo, Gabriel Mascaro's explicit drama grabs sexuality by the horns

Film of the Week: Wrong Move

By Jonathan Romney
April 15, 2016
Distance learning: Wim Wenders's offbeat and unrepentantly Romantic adaptation of Goethe gets a special theatrical run

Film of the Week: Afternoon

By Jonathan Romney
April 1, 2016
Everyday people: Tsai Ming-liang and his acteur fétiche Lee Kang-sheng chat about their long-running screen partnership

Film of the Week: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

By Jonathan Romney
March 24, 2016
Worlds collide—over and over and over again—in Zack Snyder's drearily epic superfranchise team-up

Film of the Week: Midnight Special

By Jonathan Romney
March 17, 2016
Bolt of blue: Jeff Nichols fashions a science-fiction road movie out of light and magic