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Jonathan Romney

Films of the Week: Romania Redux

By Jonathan Romney
May 19, 2016
New borders: films by Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, and Bogdan Mirica are redrawing the map of Romanian cinema at Cannes

Film of the Week: Love & Friendship

By Jonathan Romney
May 12, 2016
Lady is a tramp: Whit Stillman's briskly paced Jane Austen adaptation announces itself as a costumed cinematic lark

Film of the Week: Dheepan

By Jonathan Romney
May 5, 2016
Citizens of the world: Jacques Audiard's immigration drama falters when it veers away from the makeshift family at its center

Hearth and Home

By Jonathan Romney
May 3, 2016
In Sunset Song, Terence Davies renders a young woman’s loves and strife with grandeur and austerity

Film of the Week: Fassbinder: To Love Without Demands

By Jonathan Romney
April 27, 2016
Despair: candid interviews with Fassbinder's friends are the primary highlight of Christian Braad Thomsen’s documentary about the prolific, mercurial filmmaker

Film of the Week: Neon Bull

By Jonathan Romney
April 21, 2016
High in the saddle: set deep in the world of Brazilian rodeo, Gabriel Mascaro's explicit drama grabs sexuality by the horns

Film of the Week: Wrong Move

By Jonathan Romney
April 15, 2016
Distance learning: Wim Wenders's offbeat and unrepentantly Romantic adaptation of Goethe gets a special theatrical run

Film of the Week: Afternoon

By Jonathan Romney
April 1, 2016
Everyday people: Tsai Ming-liang and his acteur fétiche Lee Kang-sheng chat about their long-running screen partnership

Film of the Week: Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

By Jonathan Romney
March 24, 2016
Worlds collide—over and over and over again—in Zack Snyder's drearily epic superfranchise team-up

Film of the Week: Midnight Special

By Jonathan Romney
March 17, 2016
Bolt of blue: Jeff Nichols fashions a science-fiction road movie out of light and magic

Film of the Week: Winter Song

By Jonathan Romney
March 9, 2016
Carnival of souls: Otar Iosseliani returns with another elaborately orchestrated ensemble piece that sends up the human condition

Film of the Week: Cemetery of Splendor

By Jonathan Romney
March 3, 2016
Sleep furiously: Apichatpong Weerasethakul's latest film takes us on a restless, beautiful, and unnerving journey

Films of the Week: Two from Berlin

By Jonathan Romney
February 22, 2016
Battle cries: Rafi Pitts's Soy Nero and Ivo M. Ferreira’s Letters From War stood out at this year's festival

Film of the Week: Mountains May Depart

By Jonathan Romney
February 11, 2016
The march of time: Jia Zhang-ke traverse three eras to take the emotional pulse of those affected by economic miracles and widespread upheaval

Film of the Week: Eisenstein in Guanajuato

By Jonathan Romney
February 4, 2016
Behind the scenes: the über-formalist reimagines the Soviet director's Mexican awakening

Film of the Week: Rabin, The Last Day

By Jonathan Romney
January 27, 2016
Parallax views: Amos Gitai reconstructs the Israeli prime minister's assassination to trace the wrenching fractures in an embattled nation

Film of the Week: Aferim!

By Jonathan Romney
January 20, 2016
The past is a very foreign country in Romanian New Waver Radu Jude's brutally true-to-life journey across a medieval-like 19th-century Eastern Europe

Film of the Week: In the Shadow of Women

By Jonathan Romney
January 14, 2016
High noon: Philippe Garrel lays bare the faults of its philandering male specimen with cool irony and stringently beautiful photography

Film of the Week: The Treasure

By Jonathan Romney
January 7, 2016
Fool's gold: Corneliu Porumboiu's minimalist hunt draws out its mysteries with a sly sense of comedy

Film of the Week: Joy

By Jonathan Romney
December 25, 2015
Ms. Clean: David O. Russell’s Horatio Alger story of a mop entrepreneur doesn’t dirty itself with emotional details