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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: Full Moon in Paris

By Jonathan Romney
April 16, 2015
Something in the air: Pascale Ogier shines in Rohmer's tragicomic, pitch-perfect evocation of Eighties Paris

Film of the Week: Rebels of the Neon God

By Jonathan Romney
April 8, 2015
Side streets: Tsai Ming-liang’s debut feature of disaffected, motorcycle-riding Tapei youth finally gets its U.S. theatrical run

Film of the Week: While We’re Young

By Jonathan Romney
March 25, 2015
How old are you now? Noah Baumbach grapples with ageing gracelessly and questions of authenticity—both documentary and personal

Films of the Week: Kumiko & Jauja

By Jonathan Romney
March 19, 2015
Who's with me? Lisandro Alonso’s Jauja and the Zellner Brothers' Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter chart hypnotic journeys to new worlds

Film of the Week: It Follows

By Jonathan Romney
March 12, 2015
Invisible touch: David Robert Mitchell’s idiosyncratic suburban horror links sex and death through an ingenious, implacable force that will stop at nothing

Films of the Week: Two from Rendez-Vous

By Jonathan Romney
March 4, 2015
Jean Paul Civeyrac's beautiful but biting My Friend Victoria and Christophe Honoré's reimagining of Ovid's Metamorphoses

Film of the Week: Eastern Boys

By Jonathan Romney
February 26, 2015
Robin Campillo's brooding, exquisitely controlled drama of migrant sex work refuses any one interpretation

Film of the Week: Wild Tales

By Jonathan Romney
February 19, 2015
Damián Szifrón's vignette-based bestiary of human behavior nimbly juggles humor, action, and potent insights for universal consumption

Film of the Week: ’71

By Jonathan Romney
February 12, 2015
Troubling: Yann Demange's bleak Northern Ireland tale of fight or flight is buoyed by its quasi-documentary approach

Film of the Week: Hard to Be a God

By Jonathan Romney
January 28, 2015
The filth and the fury: Aleksei German's final film is an orgy of Bruegelian grotesqueries

Film of the Week: The Duke of Burgundy

By Jonathan Romney
January 21, 2015
Peter Strickland reimagines Seventies Euro erotica in his latest meticulous pastiche

Film of the Week: Gangs of Wasseypur

By Jonathan Romney
January 16, 2015
Of blood feuds and fossil fuels: Anurag Kashyap's Indian crime epic is a true powerhouse

Film of the Week: When Evening Falls on Bucharest

By Jonathan Romney
January 7, 2015
...or Metabolism. Romanian new waver Corneliu Porumboiu returns with a navel-gazing reflection on film form and actress-auteur relations

Film of the Week: Leviathan

By Jonathan Romney
December 31, 2014
The lower depths: Andrey Zvyagintsev's intelligent, brilliantly acted film plunges into the intoxicating bleakness of the contemporary Russian soul

Romney’s 2014 Roundup

By Jonathan Romney
December 23, 2014
What just happened? A look back at the year's liveliest, politically challenging films—and a few that weren't

Film of the Week: Into the Woods

By Jonathan Romney
December 19, 2014
Trick of the tale: Rob Marshall's adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's musical lacks the original's edginess

Films of the Week: Maidan and We Are the Giant

By Jonathan Romney
December 11, 2014
Radical views: two documentaries go deeper inside recent protests than social or news media dares

Film of the Week: A Most Violent Year

By Jonathan Romney
December 5, 2014
An early look at the past: J.C. Chandor's superb Fear City-era mob tale

Film of the Week: The Babadook

By Jonathan Romney
November 26, 2014
Maternal instincts: Jennifer Kent's debut feature makes allusions to the best of Gothic horror

Film of the Week: A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

By Jonathan Romney
November 19, 2014
Out from the shadows: Ana Lily Amirpour's first feature effortlessly mixes Eastern and Western codes to brilliant effect