Published by Film Society of Lincoln Center

Jonathan Romney

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

Film of the Week: Anomalisa

By Jonathan Romney
September 28, 2015
Charlie Kaufman's latest meditation on the human condition uses the artifice of its stop-motion characters to offer new answers to some age-old questions

Film of the Week: Mississippi Grind

By Jonathan Romney
September 22, 2015
Doubling down: Ben Mendelsohn and Ryan Reynolds shine in a Southern road movie about a gambler who can't fold 'em

Film of the Week: The Fool

By Jonathan Romney
September 18, 2015
Neighborhood watch: an honest man fights the power in Russia's post-Soviet kleptocracy in Yuri Bykov's emphatic tale

The Infernal, Ecstatic Desire Machine of Guy Maddin

By Jonathan Romney
September 3, 2015
Too much is just right in The Forbidden Room, the movie-mad filmmaker’s latest feat of phantasmagorical cinema

Film of the Week: Goodnight Mommy

By Jonathan Romney
September 3, 2015
You can't go home again: two kids wonder what happened to dear old Mum in this prime slice of Austrian dysfunction turned horror

Film of the Week: Queen of Earth

By Jonathan Romney
August 28, 2015
Elisabeth Moss stars as a woman on the verge in Alex Ross Perry's enigmatic house film. What to make of its twisty modernism?

Film of the Week: The Great Man

By Jonathan Romney
August 13, 2015
Jérémie Renier shines in Sarah Leonor’s vivid chronicle set among ex-French Foreign Legion members

Film of the Week: Metropolitan

By Jonathan Romney
August 7, 2015
End of the line: the endangered preppies of Whit Stillman’s mature debut remain amusing emblems of youth preserved

Film of the Week: The Kindergarten Teacher

By Jonathan Romney
July 31, 2015
Nadav Lapid's enigmatic, unsettling tale of a precocious student and his teacher confronts the nature of art and hints at Israeli society's tensions

Film of the Week: The Look of Silence

By Jonathan Romney
July 24, 2015
Ways of seeing: Joshua Oppenheimer revisits the Indonesian genocide through the eyes of a victim's brother with a piercing calm

Film of the Week: Horse Money

By Jonathan Romney
July 16, 2015
Night shifts: the third entry in Pedro Costa's Fontainhas series sends his characters into the darkness amidst memories of colonialism, revolution, and bureaucracy

Film of the Week: Tangerine

By Jonathan Romney
July 10, 2015
Streetwise: Sean Baker’s day-in-the-life look at two transgender prostitutes in Los Angeles taps into the headlong energy of its characters

Film of the Week: Amy

By Jonathan Romney
July 1, 2015
Witnesses to the persecution: Asif Kapadia's wrenching found-footage chronicle of Amy Winehouse's rise and fall inventories the gawkers and vultures around her

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