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Jonathan Romney

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

Film of the Week: Mustang

By Jonathan Romney
November 20, 2015
What it's like for a girl: Deniz Gamze Ergüven crafts an inside view of the sheltered life for a band of sisters in Turkey

Film of the Week: Out 1

By Jonathan Romney
November 12, 2015
Society of the double: Jacques Rivette's rarely seen monster-sized opus plays with post-'68 radicalism and narrative itself

Film of the Week: Spectre

By Jonathan Romney
November 5, 2015
Eternal return: Britain's last line of defense saves the world but doesn't quite thrill—or surprise—on his latest mission

Dead Man Walking

By Jonathan Romney
November 4, 2015
László Nemes’s troubling Son of Saul conveys the Holocaust’s full horror by keeping it out of focus

Film of the Week: The Pearl Button

By Jonathan Romney
October 23, 2015
Undertow: Chilean voice of conscience Patricio Guzmán follows the vexing currents of his country's history, from Pinochet all the way back to indigenous people's displacement

Film of the Week: Heart of a Dog

By Jonathan Romney
October 16, 2015
Laurie Anderson's heartfelt film breaks down the monumental concepts of death, grief, and memory through storytelling

Film of the Week: Victoria

By Jonathan Romney
October 8, 2015
Extended play: Sebastian Schipper's single-take film cruises beyond filmmaking bravura to capture the adventure of a very long night

Film of the Week: Taxi

By Jonathan Romney
October 1, 2015
Moving violation: Jafar Panahi's latest film experiment stays funny and loose while addressing the complicated nature of life in Iran