All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 5
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Reviews‘The Featherweight’: Venice Review
Faux documentary which perfectly captures the fading glory of real-life featherweight boxing champ Willie Pep
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Reviews‘Poor Things’: Venice Review
Emma Stone is a freshly minted woman of the world in Yorgos Lanthimos’s rich slice of period futurism
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Reviews‘In Our Day’: Cannes Review
Hong Sangsoo closes out Director’s Fortnight with this slender conversation piece
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Reviews‘The Old Oak’: Cannes Review
Ken Loach returns to Cannes with his ensemble swansong about Syrian refugees arriving in a small town in the North of England
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Reviews‘Salem’: Cannes Review
Jean-Bernard Marlin’s fiery gang-war film confirms the promise of his debut ’Shéhérezade’
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Reviews‘Perfect Days’: Cannes Review
Wim Wenders returns to Cannes competition with this meditative tale of a man living a quiet existence in Tokyo
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Reviews‘Man In Black’: Cannes Review
Composer Wang Xilin recalls his painful past in China’s Cultural Revolution in Wang Bing’s unusual documentary
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Reviews‘Fallen Leaves’: Cannes Review
Another two lost souls attempt to find love in Aki Kaurismäki’s Helsinki-set Competition drama
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Reviews‘Sleep’: Cannes Review
A young family is shaken by a strange presence in their home in this mischievous debut thriller from South Korea
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Reviews‘Eureka’: Cannes Review
Lisandro Alonso’s trademark slow cinema treads new metaphysical ground into very hazy terrain
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Reviews‘May December’: Cannes Review
Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman have an intriguing synergy – and symmetry – in Todd Haynes’ Competition drama
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Reviews‘The Zone Of Interest’: Cannes Review
Jonathan Glazer’s Competition entry is a remarkable portrait of domestic life in the shadow of Auschwitz
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Reviews‘The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed’: Cannes Review
A very adult comedy of sexual and emotional manners sees writer/director Joanna Arnow make her mark as a talent to watch
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Reviews‘Youth (Spring)’: Cannes Review
Wang Bing turns his intense focus on China’s young clothing factory workers again in this rigorous Competition documentary
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Reviews‘Homecoming’: Cannes Review
A woman and her daughters face a difficult return home in Catherine Corsini’s Competition entry
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Reviews‘The Animal Kingdom’: Cannes Review
Humans are inexplicably mutating into animals in this inventive French genre mash-up
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Reviews‘Anselm’: Cannes Review
Wim Wenders take a 3D dive into the life and work of German artist Anselm Kiefer
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Reviews‘Sira’: Berlin Review
A kidnapped woman fights for survival in Apolline Traoré’s north Africa-set Berlin award winner
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Reviews‘Till the End of the Night’: Berlin Review
Christoph Hochhäusler’s genre reconstruction takes too long to dawn
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Reviews‘On The Adamant’: Berlin Review
Nicolas Philibert climbs aboard the titular floating Parisian day centre for this warm documentary