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: 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