All articles by Jonathan Romney
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Reviews‘Paddington In Peru’: Review
The marmalade-loving bear goes back to his Peruvian roots in this fun, if more formulaic, adventure sequel
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Reviews‘Regretfully At Dawn’: Busan Review
An elderly Thai ex-soldier helps his granddaughter towards a brighter future in Sivaroj Kongsakul’s contemplative drama
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Reviews‘Serpent’s Path’: Busan Review
Kiyoshi Kurosawa updates his 1998 crime thriller and moves the action from Tokyo to France
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Reviews‘Of Dogs And Men’: Hamburg Review
Dani Rosenberg’s docufiction captures the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
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Reviews‘The Last Breath’: San Sebastian Review
Costa-Gravas deals with death in this wordy philosophical drama
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Reviews‘The Wailing’: San Sebastian Review
A mysterious entity stalks three young women in this effective Spanish-language horror debut
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Reviews‘The Man Who Loved UFOs’: San Sebastian Review
Diego Lerman’s based-on-real-life dramedy stars Leonardo Sbaraglia as a TV reporter gone rogue
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Reviews‘Modi - Three Days On The Wings Of Madness’: San Sebastian Review
Johnny Depp directs a chaotic romp through three days in the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani
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Reviews‘Afternoons Of Solitude’: San Sebastian Review
Albert Serra’s immersive, unflinching documentary follows Peruvian bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey
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Reviews‘When Fall Is Coming’: San Sebastián Review
Francois Ozon is in fine fettle for this later-life puzzle piece starring Helene Vincent
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Reviews‘Hard Truths’: San Sebastián Review
Mike Leigh bites back with this trenchant piece starring a superb Marianne-Jean Baptiste
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Reviews‘Love’: Venice Review
Second part of a trilogy from Norway which began at Berlin with ‘Sex’ and continues at Venice
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Reviews‘Youth (Homecoming)’: Venice Review
Wang Bing’s five-year documentary project about young Chinese factory workers draws to a sombre close
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Reviews‘Pavements’: Venice Review
Alex Ross Perry’s hybrid documentary charts the fortunes of US indie band Pavement
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Reviews‘Happyend’: Venice Review
Neo Sora’s fiction debut follows a group of students in near-future Japan as they attempt to disrupt surveillance society
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Reviews‘Phantosmia’: Venice Review
Lav Diaz explores the legacy of harm and the power of late-life redemption in his latest meditative work
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Reviews‘The Room Next Door’: Venice Review
Pedro Almodóvar’s Golden Lion winner is also his English-language debut starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore
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Reviews‘Youth (Hard Times)’: Locarno Review
The second in Wang Bing’s documentary trilogy returns to the young migrant workers who populate the factories of China’s Xisheng Road
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Reviews‘The Brutalist’: Venice Review
Brady Corbet’s meticulous Silver Lion-winning drama centres around a Hungarian architect in 1940s America
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Reviews‘Apocalypse In The Tropics’: Venice Review
Petra Costa follows The Edge Of Democracy with this look at the rise of religious populism in Brazilian politics