Reviews

Film of the Week: Jimmy P.

By Jonathan Romney

February 14, 2014

Not your textbook case: Arnaud Desplechin's American departure, Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian

Films of the Week: Two from Berlin

By Jonathan Romney

February 13, 2014

Resnais’s Life of Riley & The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq starring... Michel Houellebecq! Our man Romney reports live from the Berlinale

Film of the Week: The Last of the Unjust

By Jonathan Romney

January 29, 2014

Time regained: Claude Lanzmann's interviews with Benjamin Murmelstein—and where they lead—are far more than just Shoah leftovers

Film of the Week: Gloria

By Jonathan Romney

January 23, 2014

Youth without youth: Chilean director Sebastián Lelio and star Paulina García triumph with this portrayal of an older woman going her own way

Film of the Week: God Help the Girl

By Jonathan Romney

January 17, 2014

Special Sundance Preview Edition: Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's musical

Film of the Week: In Bloom

By Jonathan Romney

January 9, 2014

Georgian spring: Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross explore adolescence against the backdrop of post–Soviet Union independence

Film of the Week: Beyond Outrage

By Jonathan Romney

December 30, 2013

Murders and acquisitions: Takeshi Kitano's restrained but chewy return to yakuza warfare

Short Takes: Like Father, Like Son

By Nicolas Rapold

December 30, 2013

While not to be confused with the 1987 Dudley Moore body-swap comedy, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest drama also undertakes its own kind of identity experiment, one that organically grows into something altogether more poignant. After dropping us into…

Short Takes: Gloria

By Nicolas Rapold

December 30, 2013

(Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Spain, 2013)

Short Takes: The German Doctor

By Sarah Mankoff

December 30, 2013

(Lucía Puenzo, Argentina/France, 2013)