Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: The Cordillera of Dreams

February 13, 2020

Tinderbox: Patricio Guzmán’s latest documentary draws connections between Chile’s geography and the country’s troubled history

Film of the Week: Birds of Prey

By Jonathan Romney

February 7, 2020

Goof troop: the Margot Robbie vehicle serves up the kind of joke-shop bubblegum that comes spiked with hot chili

Film of the Week: Incitement

By Jonathan Romney

January 31, 2020

The killing: Yaron Zilberman's drama retraces the 1995 assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and looks at the man who committed the murder

Film of the Week: The Gentlemen

By Jonathan Romney

January 23, 2020

Luxury knockoff: there’s some return-to-roots spirit in Guy Ritchie’s latest, but as the title suggests, these hard men have gone upmarket

Film of the Week: I Wish I Knew

By Jonathan Romney

January 17, 2020

Be here now: Jia Zhangke’s documentary looks back at Shanghai’s history and offers a picture of drastic, often violent change

Film of the Week: Earth

By Jonathan Romney

January 9, 2020

Dig this: The subject of Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s film is exactly what the title suggests: it’s about the planet, but also sod, stone, coal, and minerals

Film of the Week: 1917

By Jonathan Romney

January 3, 2020

Shaken, not stirred: Sam Mendes’s pulse-quickening war movie is an adventure yarn about an altogether Bond-style mission

Film of the Week: Little Women

By Jonathan Romney

December 25, 2019

All in the family: Greta Gerwig brings a nuanced sensitivity and shrewd reframing to Louisa May Alcott's beloved novel

Film of the Week: Invisible Life

By Jonathan Romney

December 19, 2019

Saturation point: the colors of Karim Aïnouz’s melodrama ebb and flow in a delirious tide of euphoria and solemnity

Film of the Week: Chinese Portrait

By Jonathan Romney

December 13, 2019

Ordinary people: Wang Xiaoshuai’s new film is an expansive, though fragmented, vision of contemporary China

Film of the Week: In Fabric

By Jonathan Romney

December 6, 2019

Dressed to kill: Peter Strickland’s latest is an essay in comic horror, pairing two stories about an apparently cursed or haunted red dress

Film of the Week: 63 Up

By Jonathan Romney

November 29, 2019

Lifetime piling up: Michael Apted's historic experiment in long-term biography enters the silver age with another ripping good installment, 63 Up

Film of the Week: Knives Out

By Jonathan Romney

November 21, 2019

Pointy objects: like a clever piece of stage conjuring, Knives Out is slight but hugely enjoyable

Film of the Week: Atlantics

By Jonathan Romney

November 14, 2019

Dancer in the dark: Mati Diop’s debut feature is undeniably one of the boldest films of the year, crackling with invention, beauty, and anger

Film of the Week: Marriage Story

By Jonathan Romney

November 7, 2019

Love on the rocks: Noah Baumbach’s latest is witty, reveling in a mischievous sense of fun, and harrowing in its view of spousal difference

Film of the Week: The Irishman

By Jonathan Romney

November 1, 2019

It is what it is: Martin Scorsese’s epic is an extraordinary feat of rejuvenation, and not just because of the digital effects that turned its lead actors back into young(ish) men

Film of the Week: Burning Cane

By Jonathan Romney

October 24, 2019

Saving grace: 19-year-old Phillip Youmans’s debut has a rough-edged dynamism and emotional intensity

Film of the Week: Jojo Rabbit

By Jonathan Romney

October 18, 2019

Little monsters: Taika Waititi's latest seems to believe that fascism is a bad joke that can be overcome with good humor

Film of the Week: In My Room

By Jonathan Romney

October 10, 2019

Last man standing: Ulrich Köhler’s latest is an unusually low-key vision of the end of the world—or at least, the end of someone’s world

Film of the Week: Rose Plays Julie

By Jonathan Romney

October 4, 2019

Hall of mirrors: Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor continue to cultivate an uncanny echo-chamber effect in their latest project