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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: 45 Years

By Jonathan Romney
December 17, 2015
The way we were: Andrew Haigh's chamber drama probes the insecurities arising from a revelation from the past

Film of the Week: Youth

By Jonathan Romney
December 10, 2015
Guilty splendors: Paolo Sorrentino’s latest paean to the glamour of everything and nothing is another variable feast

Film of the Week: Hitchcock/Truffaut

By Jonathan Romney
December 4, 2015
Dial M for Master: Scorsese, Fincher, Assayas, Linklater, and other filmmakers discuss how Hitchcock's work has influenced their own

Film of the Week: Arabian Nights

By Jonathan Romney
December 2, 2015
Miguel Gomes's six-hour, three-part reimagining of 1001 Nights is a magnificent, one-of-a-kind reckoning with hard times

Film of the Week: The Good Dinosaur

By Jonathan Romney
November 27, 2015
Old world charm: Pixar's latest animated feature brings the wonders of nature (and its many beasts) to life but lacks personality

Film of the Week: Mustang

By Jonathan Romney
November 20, 2015
What it's like for a girl: Deniz Gamze Ergüven crafts an inside view of the sheltered life for a band of sisters in Turkey

Film of the Week: Out 1

By Jonathan Romney
November 12, 2015
Society of the double: Jacques Rivette's rarely seen monster-sized opus plays with post-'68 radicalism and narrative itself

Film of the Week: Spectre

By Jonathan Romney
November 5, 2015
Eternal return: Britain's last line of defense saves the world but doesn't quite thrill—or surprise—on his latest mission

Dead Man Walking

By Jonathan Romney
November 4, 2015
László Nemes’s troubling Son of Saul conveys the Holocaust’s full horror by keeping it out of focus

Film of the Week: The Pearl Button

By Jonathan Romney
October 23, 2015
Undertow: Chilean voice of conscience Patricio Guzmán follows the vexing currents of his country's history, from Pinochet all the way back to indigenous people's displacement

Film of the Week: Heart of a Dog

By Jonathan Romney
October 16, 2015
Laurie Anderson's heartfelt film breaks down the monumental concepts of death, grief, and memory through storytelling

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