Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Jonathan Romney

Review: Irrational Man

By Jonathan Romney
June 30, 2015
(Woody Allen, U.S., 2015)

Film of the Week: The Princess of France

By Jonathan Romney
June 29, 2015
Play's the thing: Matías Piñeiro's new Shakespearean feature stages an intricate romantic dance that exults in language and the enigma of attraction

Film of the Week: Eden

By Jonathan Romney
June 18, 2015
As time goes by: Mia Hansen-Løve's entrancing chronicle of a French dance-music scene skips through the years to find the mood of a moment

Film of the Week: Me and Earl and the Dying Girl

By Jonathan Romney
June 11, 2015
It’s not what you think: Alfonso Gomes-Rejon’s story of male-female friendship is sweetly but sharply rendered, neither twee nor cheap weepie

Film of the Week: A Pigeon Sat on a Branch…

By Jonathan Romney
June 3, 2015
Behold! Roy Andersson's latest mordant pastiche of the human condition

Film of the Week: Slow West

By Jonathan Romney
May 13, 2015
John Maclean's dust-free Western is powered by non-sequiturs and a dryly comic sensibility

Film of the Week: Reality

By Jonathan Romney
May 4, 2015
Quentin Dupieux's self-conscious comedy plunges into the guts of the Hollywood dream factory

Film of the Week: Far From Men

By Jonathan Romney
April 30, 2015
I'm the stranger: David Oelhoffen’s expanded adaptation of a short story by Camus ends up being a little too self-conscious

Film of the Week: Iris

By Jonathan Romney
April 23, 2015
A woman for all seasons: Albert Maysles's final documentary knits together colorful swatches from a New York fashion maven's life

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