Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: Listen Up Philip

By Jonathan Romney

October 8, 2014

Alex Ross Perry's Philip Roth-inspired comedy does more than reveal why you should never meet your heroes

Film of the Week: The Blue Room

By Jonathan Romney

October 1, 2014

Mathieu Amalric's adaptation of Georges Simenon's 1964 novel is infused with the robust formal energies and beguiling mysteries of its source

Film of the Week: The Two Faces of January

By Jonathan Romney

September 25, 2014

A stylish cosmopolitan thriller that offers more thrills than vintage swagger and Fifties fashion

Film of the Week: Pride

By Jonathan Romney

September 18, 2014

Matthew Warchus's pop-powered story of unlikely solidarity between miners and LGBT activists is charming, but never twee

Film of the Week: Stray Dogs

By Jonathan Romney

September 11, 2014

The outer limits: Tsai Ming-liang's latest feature portrays life on the margins with poetic force

Film of the Week: Wetlands

By Jonathan Romney

September 3, 2014

She's so unusual: David Wnendt's coming-of-age tale ain't Amélie, but balances its raunch with charm

Film of the Week: Starred Up

By Jonathan Romney

August 28, 2014

David Mackenzie's eerie, mesmerizing look at life inside the big house

Film of the Week: Abuse of Weakness

By Jonathan Romney

August 14, 2014

The real thing: Isabelle Huppert does another conjuring act in Catherine Breillat's drama about her folie a deux with a con man

Film of the Week: Frank

By Jonathan Romney

August 7, 2014

Synths and papier-mâché heads: Frank debunks the mystique of the tormented rock artist

Film of the Week: Child of God

By Jonathan Romney

July 30, 2014

James Franco flirts with the abject and the elegiac in his portrait of a Southern Idiot Boy

Film of the Week: A Master Builder

By Jonathan Romney

July 24, 2014

Jonathan Demme's adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play is "filmed theater" done right

Film of the Week: Mood Indigo

By Jonathan Romney

July 17, 2014

Novel ideas: is it possible to adapt Boris Vian's surreal 1946 book L’Écume des jours? Michel Gondry tries (maybe too) hard

Film of the Week: Closed Curtain

By Jonathan Romney

July 10, 2014

The Writer, his dog, the Filmmaker, and a mise en abyme

Film of the Week: A Hard Day’s Night

By Jonathan Romney

July 3, 2014

Live again: Richard Lester's 1964 Beatles romp, released in a new restoration, takes on the pop myth of spontaneity

Coming Apart

By Jonathan Romney

July 2, 2014

Director Joanna Hogg revisits the indiscreet misery of the English bourgeoisie in Exhibition

Film of the Week: Snowpiercer

By Jonathan Romney

June 26, 2014

We are the world: Bong Joon Ho's unapologetically political, philosophical, and flamboyant blockbuster

Film of the Week: Norte, The End of History

By Jonathan Romney

June 19, 2014

Lav Diaz's epic reconfiguration of Crime and Punishment

Film of the Week: Night Moves

By Jonathan Romney

May 29, 2014

Band of outsiders: Kelly Reichardt's suspenseful tale of Oregonian eco-terrorists

Film of the Week: The Tribe

By Jonathan Romney

May 23, 2014

Written on the body: a violent school mafia speaks only in sign language, in the Critics Week prize-winner at Cannes

Film of the Week: Godzilla

By Jonathan Romney

May 14, 2014

Of MUTOs and men: Gareth Edwards's star-studded take on Japan's most famous monster is powerful fun