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Jonathan Romney

Film of the Week: First Love

By Jonathan Romney
September 26, 2019
Typical perversity: Takashi Miike’s 103rd film is best encapsulated by a close-up of a severed head wreathed in a goofy grin

Film of the Week: Ad Astra

By Jonathan Romney
September 19, 2019
Child is father to the man: James Gray’s cosmic adventure flick is, at heart, a primal tale of a boy and his dad

Film of the Week: The Sound of Silence

By Jonathan Romney
September 13, 2019
Listen up: Michael Tyburski’s first feature is a delicate character study that yields strange, stimulating ideas about noise and quiet

Film of the Week: Babyteeth

By Jonathan Romney
September 6, 2019
Faith healer: director Shannon Murphy's Venice competition debut turns the story of a stricken teenager and her wild paramour into something fresh and bright

Film of the Week: An Officer and a Spy

By Jonathan Romney
August 30, 2019
Courtroom drama: Roman Polanski's latest film, a Venice world premiere, surehandedly recounts the Dreyfus Affair and its story of a French army captain's anti-Semitic persecution

Film of the Week: The Cremator

By Jonathan Romney
August 8, 2019
Danse macabre: Juraj Herz's bracingly modern, anti-realist film lies on the delicate border between horror and social satire

Film of the Week: Tel Aviv on Fire

By Jonathan Romney
August 1, 2019
Conversational divide: Sameh Zoabi’s comedy engages with questions of history, politics, and cultural difference—and similarity

Film of the Week: Chalk

By Jonathan Romney
July 26, 2019
Calling the shots: Rob Nilsson’s 1996 atmospheric pool-hall drama is a crackling gem

Film of the Week: “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”

By Jonathan Romney
July 18, 2019
Memory loss: Radu Jude's latest contends with the ways in which recreating the past can obscure history's meaning

Film of the Week: Rojo

By Jonathan Romney
July 12, 2019
Disappearing act: thinking you know where you are with Benjamín Naishtat’s latest can lead you up the wrong path

Film of the Week: Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

By Jonathan Romney
July 4, 2019
True love leaves no traces: Nick Broomfield’s documentary reflects on the complex relationship between an artist and a muse

Film of the Week: Yesterday

By Jonathan Romney
June 28, 2019
An easy game to play: is Danny Boyle's alternate-reality tale of a world without Beatles more than a clever conceit?

Film of the Week: The Plagiarists

By Jonathan Romney
June 21, 2019
Infinite regress: Peter Parlow’s curious micro-budget provocation offers plenty to chew over

Film of the Week: Give Me Liberty

By Jonathan Romney
June 14, 2019
Democratic vistas: Kirill Mikhanovsky’s film is relentless and exhausting—but it’s also a joyous, tender blast

Film of the Week: Late Night

By Jonathan Romney
June 7, 2019
Behind the desk: as a film about the business of comedy, Late Night is not that funny

Film of the Week: Rocketman

By Jonathan Romney
May 31, 2019
Can you feel the love: the Elton John biopic is a cannily honed machine, like a flawlessly staged Broadway show

Film of the Week: Oh Mercy!

By Jonathan Romney
May 24, 2019
Cops and robbers: with his latest, a film policier, Arnaud Desplechin explicitly comes to terms with the world, in a very personal way

Film of the Week: Bacurau

By Jonathan Romney
May 17, 2019
It takes a village: though ungainly and sometimes ugly, there‘s a lot to admire in Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles‘s Cannes entry

Film of the Week: Pasolini

By Jonathan Romney
May 10, 2019
Leather and lace: it’s unlikely that many will be scandalized, pleasurably or otherwise, by Abel Ferrara’s tribute to the late Italian filmmaker

Film of the Week: Meeting Gorbachev

By Jonathan Romney
May 3, 2019
Meeting of minds: Werner Herzog's film tends to present the world leader as a cuddly, jolly uncle among politicians