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Jonathan Romney

Directions: New Haunts

By Jonathan Romney
May 1, 2019
Stray Dogs master Tsai Ming-liang pushes into the virtual realm and the great beyond

Film of the Week: Erased,___Ascent of the Invisible

By Jonathan Romney
April 26, 2019
Disappearing act: the Lebanese film could be called a speculative documentary, an essay film, or a conceptual art piece

Film of the Week: Long Day’s Journey Into Night

By Jonathan Romney
April 12, 2019
In dreams: Bi Gan's noir fable abandons narrative transparency in favor of a poetic dream logic

Film of the Week: The Wind

By Jonathan Romney
April 5, 2019
Home on the range: Emma Tammi's new movie blends horror and Western genre elements, not always successfully

Film of the Week: Diane

By Jonathan Romney
March 29, 2019
Not dark yet: Kent Jones's Diane is an altogether sober film, a drama about ageing that is nothing less than ice-water unsentimental

Film of the Week: Dragged Across Concrete

By Jonathan Romney
March 22, 2019
The thin blue line: S. Craig Zahler’s brutally violent cop film surfaces uncomfortable questions about racism, power, and complicity

Film of the Week: Combat Obscura

By Jonathan Romney
March 15, 2019
Combat fatigue: Miles Lagoze’s Afghanistan documentary shows the boredom and brutality of endless war

Interview: Ilya Khrzhanovsky

By Jonathan Romney
March 13, 2019
The mind behind the massively ambitious Dau discusses the mysterious, "pluridisciplinary" project

Film of the Week: An Elephant Sitting Still

By Jonathan Romney
March 8, 2019
Magic and loss: the late Hu Bo's masterpiece is filled with extraordinary beauty, invention, and grace

Film of the Week: Transit

By Jonathan Romney
March 1, 2019
The illusionist: Christian Petzold's latest is effectively two different films, depending on what you think you’re seeing

Film of the Week: Between the Lines

By Jonathan Romney
February 22, 2019
Faded glory: Joan Micklin Silver's 1977 crackling ensemble piece shows how some things never change

Film of the Week: Varda par Agnès

By Jonathan Romney
February 15, 2019
Mirror image: the latest from the irrepressible filmmaker isn’t exactly a self-portrait, but a set of discursive and contemplative footnotes to her work and life

Film of the Week: Lords of Chaos

By Jonathan Romney
February 8, 2019
Devil in the details: Jonas Åkerlund's black metal biopic provides shallow laughs but, like its main character, drifts out of its depth

Film of the Week: Los Reyes

By Jonathan Romney
February 1, 2019
Kings of their world: a doc about two dogs and a skate park reveals the accretion of remarkable details that make up daily life

Film of the Week: Jessica Forever

By Jonathan Romney
January 24, 2019
Unidentifiable filmic object: a den mother and her brood navigate a dystopian future in this unclassifiable film screening February 8 in Film Comment Selects

Film of the Week: Glass

By Jonathan Romney
January 18, 2019
All too superhuman: M. Night Shyamalan has nerve choosing Glass as the title for a film so unashamedly non-transparent

Film of the Week: The Heiresses

By Jonathan Romney
January 11, 2019
Rearranging the deckchairs: two middle-aged Paraguayan women cling to a semblance of respectable society amidst dysfunction

Film of the Week: Destroyer

By Jonathan Romney
December 25, 2018
Hard case: Nicole Kidman becomes a wraith-like detective in Karyn Kusama's repetitive mystery

Film of the Week: Vice

By Jonathan Romney
December 21, 2018
Eminence grise: Adam McKay's timeline take-down of former Vice President and Halliburton honcho Dick Cheney struggles to shine a light on its shadowy subject

Film of the Week: The House That Jack Built

By Jonathan Romney
December 14, 2018
House specialty: Lars von Trier is back with a serial killer story starring Matt Dillon and featuring a kind of running commentary on itself