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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: The Missing Picture

By Jonathan Romney
March 20, 2014
Rithy Panh's film about the horrors of the Khmer Rouge has equal elements of art brut, therapy, and poetry

Film of the Week: The Grand Budapest Hotel

By Jonathan Romney
March 12, 2014
Darkness visible: is it okay to enjoy Wes Anderson's latest perfectly packaged concoction? Our weekly critic weighs in.

Films of the Week: A Look at Rendez-Vous

By Jonathan Romney
March 6, 2014
What makes a new wave? The actors and actresses to watch in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual showcase of new French film

Film of the Week: The Lunchbox

By Jonathan Romney
February 27, 2014
The delectable treats of Ritesh Batra’s feature-film debut

Film of the Week: Child’s Pose

By Jonathan Romney
February 20, 2014
Mother loving: Romanian New Wave screenwriter Calin Peter Netzer's directorial debut observes a woman of privilege fussing over her grown son

Film of the Week: Jimmy P.

By Jonathan Romney
February 14, 2014
Not your textbook case: Arnaud Desplechin's American departure, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian

Films of the Week: Two from Berlin

By Jonathan Romney
February 13, 2014
Resnais’s Life of Riley & The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq starring... Michel Houellebecq! Our man Romney reports live from the Berlinale

Film of the Week: The Last of the Unjust

By Jonathan Romney
January 29, 2014
Time regained: Claude Lanzmann's interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein—and where they lead—are far more than just Shoah leftovers

Film of the Week: Gloria

By Jonathan Romney
January 23, 2014
Youth without youth: Chilean director Sebastián Lelio and star Paulina García triumph with this portrayal of an older woman going her own way

Film of the Week: God Help the Girl

By Jonathan Romney
January 17, 2014
Special Sundance Preview Edition: Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's musical

Film of the Week: In Bloom

By Jonathan Romney
January 9, 2014
Georgian spring: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross explore adolescence against the backdrop of post–Soviet Union independence

Dream Lovers

By Jonathan Romney
January 2, 2014
With Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie’s fantastic explorations of desire without limits go dark

Film of the Week: Beyond Outrage

By Jonathan Romney
December 30, 2013
Murders and acquisitions: Takeshi Kitano's restrained but chewy return to yakuza warfare

Romney’s 2013 Roundup

By Jonathan Romney
December 23, 2013
Our weekly critic sorts through the year in cinema to find the best, the overlooked, the best-overlooked, and the just plain weird

Film of the Week: Her

By Jonathan Romney
December 19, 2013
The next voice you hear: software takes command (of your heart)

Film of the Week: Saving Mr. Banks

By Jonathan Romney
December 11, 2013
Therapy, Disney-style: unhappy childhoods subdued with kites and animated penguins

Film of the Week: White Reindeer

By Jonathan Romney
December 4, 2013
It's the most wonderful time of the year: finally, another fine cynical Christmas movie

Film of the Week: The End of Time

By Jonathan Romney
November 28, 2013
On the road to nowhere: Peter Mettler's monumental ecotour

Film of the Week: Nebraska

By Jonathan Romney
November 21, 2013
Alexander Payne reveals where the quotidian and existential meet on the prairie

Film of the Week: The Great Beauty

By Jonathan Romney
November 14, 2013
It's bunga bunga time: the exquisite emptiness of Sorrentino's latest baroque comedy