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Film of the Week

Jonathan Romney mulls over the virtues of the best—or the richest, or just the most perplexing—of the week’s new U.S. releases or re-releases.

Film of the Week: Dunkirk

By Jonathan Romney
July 21, 2017
Shellshocked: Christopher Nolan's spectacular World War II film pulls you into the confusion of war while avoiding hero worship

Film of the Week: War for the Planet of the Apes

By Jonathan Romney
July 13, 2017
Origin of the species: the latest entry in the primate series confirms a whole new realm of expression and spectacle

Film of the Week: The Rehearsal

By Jonathan Romney
July 7, 2017
Not strictly method: Alison Maclean’s look inside an acting studio toys with theater clichés while hitting emotional truths

Film of the Week: The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

By Jonathan Romney
June 30, 2017
Take two: Errol Morris’s portrait of a woman who photographed beat poets and families is as intimate as it is good-hearted

Film of the Week: My Journey Through French Cinema

By Jonathan Romney
June 23, 2017
Open book: filmmaker and superfan Bertrand Tavernier gives an insightful, free-flowing tour of French auteurs and history

Film of the Week: Funeral Parade of Roses

By Jonathan Romney
June 9, 2017
Exploding cinema: the unbridled Id of Toshio Matsumoto’s late-Sixties avant-queer freak-out thrives in a new restoration

Films of the Week: Cannes Week 2 – Russian Stories

By Jonathan Romney
May 26, 2017
Little Moscow on the Croisette: Kantemir Balagov’s Closeness, Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Loveless, and Sergei Loznitsa’s A Gentle Creature stood out at the French fest

Films of the Week: Cannes – Week 1

By Jonathan Romney
May 19, 2017
The exception rules: the free spirits (and auteurism) of Claire Denis’s Let the Sunshine In, Arnaud Desplechin’s Ismael’s Ghosts, and Mathieu Amalric’s Barbara

Film of the Week: Manifesto

By Jonathan Romney
May 12, 2017
Woman of a thousand faces: Cate Blanchett's pop art-infused project transcends history and challenges notions of narrative

Film of the Week: A Woman’s Life

By Jonathan Romney
May 4, 2017
19th-century women: in Stéphane Brizé’s unsparing adaptation of Maupassant’s novel, a creeping loss of agency seems to unfold in real time