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Jonathan Romney

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 Reflecting on Existence

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