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Jonathan Romney

Films of the Week: On Llyn Foulkes & Sol LeWitt

By Jonathan Romney
May 7, 2014
Art and craft: Llyn Foulkes One Man Band and Sol LeWitt take on the vagaries of the artist's pursuit

Film of the Week: Ida

By Jonathan Romney
May 1, 2014
Pawel Pawlikowski's compelling, austere tale about the impossibility of regaining what has been lost

Film of the Week: Blue Ruin

By Jonathan Romney
April 23, 2014
Jeremy Saulnier’s grubby, atmospheric revenge pic follows an unlikely—but persistent—vigilante

Film of the Week: Manakamana

By Jonathan Romney
April 17, 2014
Transit authority: the latest film from the Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab gets up close and personal with Nepalese cable-car passengers

Film of the Week: Only Lovers Left Alive

By Jonathan Romney
April 9, 2014
Eternally yours: Jim Jarmusch's globe-trotting, philosophy-referencing vampire flick is just as cool as you'd expect

Film of the Week: Under the Skin

By Jonathan Romney
April 3, 2014
Jonathan Glazer's long-awaited tale of an intergalactic sucubus gives Scarlett Johansson a chance to flex her acting muscles

20,000 Days on Earth & Mistaken for Strangers

By Jonathan Romney
March 27, 2014
In this edition of Romney's Films of the Week, Nick Cave and The National get the rock-doc treatment

The Girl Can’t Help It

By Jonathan Romney
March 24, 2014
With Nymphomaniac’s digressive fable of a female sex addict, Lars von Trier once again explores the frontiers of cinematic invention and picks a fight with his audience

Film of the Week: The Missing Picture

By Jonathan Romney
March 20, 2014
Rithy Panh's film about the horrors of the Khmer Rouge has equal elements of art brut, therapy, and poetry

Film of the Week: The Grand Budapest Hotel

By Jonathan Romney
March 12, 2014
Darkness visible: is it okay to enjoy Wes Anderson's latest perfectly packaged concoction? Our weekly critic weighs in.

Films of the Week: A Look at Rendez-Vous

By Jonathan Romney
March 6, 2014
What makes a new wave? The actors and actresses to watch in the Film Society of Lincoln Center's annual showcase of new French film

Film of the Week: The Lunchbox

By Jonathan Romney
February 27, 2014
The delectable treats of Ritesh Batra’s feature-film debut

Film of the Week: Child’s Pose

By Jonathan Romney
February 20, 2014
Mother loving: Romanian New Wave screenwriter Calin Peter Netzer's directorial debut observes a woman of privilege fussing over her grown son

Film of the Week: Jimmy P.

By Jonathan Romney
February 14, 2014
Not your textbook case: Arnaud Desplechin's American departure, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian

Films of the Week: Two from Berlin

By Jonathan Romney
February 13, 2014
Resnais’s Life of Riley & The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq starring... Michel Houellebecq! Our man Romney reports live from the Berlinale

Film of the Week: The Last of the Unjust

By Jonathan Romney
January 29, 2014
Time regained: Claude Lanzmann's interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein—and where they lead—are far more than just Shoah leftovers

Film of the Week: Gloria

By Jonathan Romney
January 23, 2014
Youth without youth: Chilean director Sebastián Lelio and star Paulina García triumph with this portrayal of an older woman going her own way

Film of the Week: God Help the Girl

By Jonathan Romney
January 17, 2014
Special Sundance Preview Edition: Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's musical

Film of the Week: In Bloom

By Jonathan Romney
January 9, 2014
Georgian spring: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross explore adolescence against the backdrop of post–Soviet Union independence

Dream Lovers

By Jonathan Romney
January 2, 2014
With Stranger by the Lake, Alain Guiraudie’s fantastic explorations of desire without limits go dark