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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present

By Jonathan Romney
March 30, 2017
Dots and loops: the avant-garde artist and musician is rightfully restored to prime view in a new documentary

Film of the Week: I, Olga Hepnarová

By Jonathan Romney
March 24, 2017
I'm not there: a film dramatizing the life of a Czechoslovakian mass-murderer never goes for the easy answers

Film of the Week: The Challenge

By Jonathan Romney
March 16, 2017
Inside the pleasure dome: the otherworldly wealth of Qatari sheikhs goes on display in this New Directors / New Films selection directed by Yuri Ancarani

Film of the Week: Suntan

By Jonathan Romney
March 10, 2017
Bikini bodies at the ready: Argyris Papadimitropoulos’s bitterly candid look at middle-aged male desire pulls no punches

The Material World

By Jonathan Romney
March 3, 2017
Olivier Assayas’s metaphysical drama searches for answers—and fresh questions—in a digital-spiritual realm

Film of the Week: Les Hautes Solitudes

By Jonathan Romney
February 23, 2017
Uneasy lovers: Jean Seberg stars in Philippe Garrel's 1974 silent study in counterpoint with three other performers

Festivals: Berlin

By Jonathan Romney
February 17, 2017
In their own way: a quartet of new films showcase unhappy families, including Sebastián Lelio's latest

Festivals: Rotterdam and Beyond

By Jonathan Romney
February 16, 2017
Eye-level in the lowlands: the Dutch festival had a bit of a lull, but a day-trip to a Béla Tarr exhibition yielded a pick-me-up

Films of the Week: France in Berlin

By Jonathan Romney
February 10, 2017
Rightful heirs: Lolita Chammah stars alongside mother Isabelle Huppert in Barrage and Neïl Beloufa’s Occidental finds fresh oddity in old influences

Film of the Week: The Lure

By Jonathan Romney
February 2, 2017
Siren song: Agnieszka Smoczyńska’s delirious, murderous musical harkens back to the cinema du look, Hans Christian Andersen, and much more

Film of the Week: Staying Vertical

By Jonathan Romney
January 26, 2017
Country life: Stranger by the Lake director Alain Guiraudie spins a footloose and fanciful yarn that obeys a surreal logic

Film of the Week: Split

By Jonathan Romney
January 19, 2017
And you are...? M. Night Shyamalan returns to form with an entertaining but absurd thriller

Film of the Week: Paterson

By Jonathan Romney
December 28, 2016
Round and round: the new Jim Jarmusch film finds the art in routine for a poetic New Jersey bus driver's life

Film of the Week: I, Daniel Blake

By Jonathan Romney
December 21, 2016
Friends on benefits: Ken Loach's Palme d'Or winner offers a complex drama about the injustice of the U.K.'s social welfare system

Film of the Week: Neruda

By Jonathan Romney
December 15, 2016
Circular ruins: Pablo Larraín's anti-biopic of one of Chile's greatest poets is grandly dreamlike

Film of the Week: Lost and Beautiful

By Jonathan Romney
December 8, 2016
Milk of human kindness: Pietro Marcello's magical realist hybrid tale starring a calf is unabashedly poetic

Film of the Week: The Eyes of My Mother

By Jonathan Romney
December 1, 2016
Horror begins at home: Nicolas Pesce’s tantalizingly oblique debut leads you down the rabbit hole of family history

Film of the Week: Always Shine

By Jonathan Romney
November 23, 2016
Bad timing: Sophia Takal smartly deconstructs the male gaze through the familiar trope of female doppelgängers

Film of the Week: I Am Not Madame Bovary

By Jonathan Romney
November 18, 2016
Bureaucratic oath: Feng Xiaogang’s film about a woman seeking a divorce shows the labyrinthine realities of today's China, but not much else

Film of the Week: Arrival

By Jonathan Romney
November 10, 2016
Found in translation: Denis Villeneuve’s alien encounter flick offers up thoughtful ideas about cinema, language, and empathy