Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: King Cobra

By Jonathan Romney

October 21, 2016

Young buns: the trueish tale of a gay porn actor's attempt to make it gets at some larger, uncomfortable truths

Film of the Week: Certain Women

By Jonathan Romney

October 13, 2016

Rainy day women: Kelly Reichardt's triptych finds the flow of moments in three stories by Maile Meloy

Film of the Week: The Greasy Strangler

By Jonathan Romney

October 6, 2016

Dare to be stupid: Jim Hosking's irredeemable and weird father-son whatsit is just silly enough

Film of the Week: Son of Joseph

By Jonathan Romney

September 29, 2016

A whole nother vein: Eugène Green's Shakespearean-tinged story of filial frustration shows the director's formal hallmarks in beguiling full effect

Film of the Week: Playground

By Jonathan Romney

September 26, 2016

Caution, children: the cruelties of youth prompted many walkouts at San Sebastian

Film of the Week: Chan Is Missing

By Jonathan Romney

September 14, 2016

High and low: Wayne Wang’s exploration of Chinese-American identity remains as fresh and insightful as it was in 1982

Film of the Week: The Untamed

By Jonathan Romney

September 9, 2016

The call of Cthulhu: Amat Escalante wraps science fiction around family drama and doesn't let go

Festivals: Locarno

By Jonathan Romney

September 6, 2016

Band of outsiders: this year's lakeside fest boasted strong, strange offerings from Argentina and elsewhere

Film of the Week: Happy Hour

By Jonathan Romney

August 26, 2016

Relaxed fit: Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s five-hour exploration of middle-aged female friendship lets us live with its drama

Film of the Week: Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World

By Jonathan Romney

August 18, 2016

Let's go surfing: Werner Herzog pontificates on the philosophical implications of the Internet

Films of the Week: Locarno Sex Romp Edition!

By Jonathan Romney

August 12, 2016

Heat wave: Akihiko Shiota's roman porno homage Wet Woman in the Wind and Tetsuya Mariko's frenetic Destruction Babies shake up established notions of contemporary Japanese film

Film of the Week: Little Men

By Jonathan Romney

August 5, 2016

Neighborhood watch: Ira Sachs's delicate drama of friendship and class in a gentrifying Brooklyn glides along with precocious performances

Film of the Week: On the Silver Globe

By Jonathan Romney

July 19, 2016

From another planet: an early look at Andrzej Zulawski's magnificent, mad, science-fiction film maudit, returning to screens in a new restoration

Film of the Week: Café Society

By Jonathan Romney

July 14, 2016

Behind the grind: Woody Allen's lush and lovingly shot romp through 1930s Hollywood offers many pleasures for his true fans

Film of the Week: Our Little Sister

By Jonathan Romney

July 8, 2016

Sweet songs of sad thought: Kore-eda's latest understated chamber drama gets to the heart of sibling dynamics

Film of the Week: Microbe & Gasoline

By Jonathan Romney

June 30, 2016

Have shack, will travel: Michel Gondry's kid-sized road movie tilts pleasurably from precious to personal

Film of the Week: Les Cowboys

By Jonathan Romney

June 24, 2016

Never go home again: Thomas Bidegain's economical neo-western redraws the maps—geographical and psychological—to reflect a post-9/11 world

Film of the Week: Right Now, Wrong Then

By Jonathan Romney

June 17, 2016

Infinite regress: Hong Sangsoo's variations on the theme of frustrated love suggest that we shouldn't get caught up in the details

Film of the Week: The Wailing

By Jonathan Romney

June 2, 2016

Screaming good: Na Hong-jin's self-aware, rural horror tale blurs the line between laughs and scares

Film of the Week: Chevalier

By Jonathan Romney

May 27, 2016

Game of bros: Athina Rachel Tsangari's acerbic deconstruction of male ego goes all the way