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Jonathan Romney

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

Film of the Week: Winter Song

By Jonathan Romney
March 9, 2016
Carnival of souls: Otar Iosseliani returns with another elaborately orchestrated ensemble piece that sends up the human condition

Film of the Week: Cemetery of Splendor

By Jonathan Romney
March 3, 2016
Sleep furiously: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film takes us on a restless, beautiful, and unnerving journey

Films of the Week: Two from Berlin

By Jonathan Romney
February 22, 2016
Battle cries: Rafi Pitts's Soy Nero and Ivo M. Ferreira’s Letters From War stood out at this year's festival

Film of the Week: Mountains May Depart

By Jonathan Romney
February 11, 2016
The march of time: Jia Zhang-ke traverse three eras to take the emotional pulse of those affected by economic miracles and widespread upheaval

Film of the Week: Eisenstein in Guanajuato

By Jonathan Romney
February 4, 2016
Behind the scenes: the über-formalist reimagines the Soviet director's Mexican awakening

Film of the Week: Rabin, The Last Day

By Jonathan Romney
January 27, 2016
Parallax views: Amos Gitai reconstructs the Israeli prime minister's assassination to trace the wrenching fractures in an embattled nation

Film of the Week: Aferim!

By Jonathan Romney
January 20, 2016
The past is a very foreign country in Romanian New Waver Radu Jude's brutally true-to-life journey across a medieval-like 19th-century Eastern Europe

Film of the Week: In the Shadow of Women

By Jonathan Romney
January 14, 2016
High noon: Philippe Garrel lays bare the faults of its philandering male specimen with cool irony and stringently beautiful photography

Film of the Week: The Treasure

By Jonathan Romney
January 7, 2016
Fool's gold: Corneliu Porumboiu's minimalist hunt draws out its mysteries with a sly sense of comedy

Film of the Week: Joy

By Jonathan Romney
December 25, 2015
Ms. Clean: David O. Russell’s Horatio Alger story of a mop entrepreneur doesn’t dirty itself with emotional details

Film of the Week: 45 Years

By Jonathan Romney
December 17, 2015
The way we were: Andrew Haigh's chamber drama probes the insecurities arising from a revelation from the past

Film of the Week: Youth

By Jonathan Romney
December 10, 2015
Guilty splendors: Paolo Sorrentino’s latest paean to the glamour of everything and nothing is another variable feast

Film of the Week: Hitchcock/Truffaut

By Jonathan Romney
December 4, 2015
Dial M for Master: Scorsese, Fincher, Assayas, Linklater, and other filmmakers discuss how Hitchcock's work has influenced their own

Film of the Week: Arabian Nights

By Jonathan Romney
December 2, 2015
Miguel Gomes's six-hour, three-part reimagining of 1001 Nights is a magnificent, one-of-a-kind reckoning with hard times

Film of the Week: The Good Dinosaur

By Jonathan Romney
November 27, 2015
Old world charm: Pixar's latest animated feature brings the wonders of nature (and its many beasts) to life but lacks personality