Jonathan Romney
Reviews‘Je Suis Karl’: Berlin Review
Christian Schwochow’s political thriller focuses on the rise of the youth far-right in his country
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‘What Do We See When We Look At The Sky?’: Berlin Review
A fairy tale of two lovers and a leisurely evocation of life in Georgia’s city of Kutaisi
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‘Forest - I See You Everywhere’: Berlin Review
A tangled trail of humanity in Bence Fliegauf’s dark follow-up to a film he made almost two decades ago
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‘Mr Bachmann and His Class’: Berlin Review
Back to the schoolroom for Maria Speth’s engrossing tutorial
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‘Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn’: Berlin Review
A brash yet slippery piece from Romania’s agent provocateur Radu Jude
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‘Fabian – Going to the Dogs’: Berlin Review
Tom Schilling stars in Domink Graf’s elaborate 1931 Berlin-set drama
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‘In The Earth’: Sundance Review
Ben Wheatley returns to (his) nature with a pandemic sci-fi scarer starring Joel Fry
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‘The Pink Cloud’: Sundance Review
An uncannily prescient drama from Brazil marks a powerful debut from Iuli Gerbase
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‘Human Factors’: Sundance Review
Ronny Trocker’s cat-and-mouse game with the viewer strays into Haneke territory
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‘Funny Boy’: Review (Netflix)
Deepa Mehta’s appealing drama follows two young lovers in Sri Lanka amid the outbreak of the Civil War
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Films of the year 2020: Jonathan Romney
A longtime contributor, Romney also writes for Film Comment, Sight & Sound and The Observer, and teaches at NFTS. Read our other critics’ top tens here.
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‘Radiograph Of A Family’: IDFA Review
What led Firouzeh Khosrovani’s mother to embrace revolutionary Islam so fervently?
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‘Inside The Red Brick Wall’: IDFA Review
A deep dive into the stand-off between police and protesters at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University last year
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‘Til Kingdom Come’: IDFA Review
A provocative look at the links between Israel and American evangelical Christian groups
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‘The Care Of Others’: Thessaloniki Review
Deceptively simple but emotionally jarring mid-length feature from Argentina
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‘Gym’: Thessaloniki Review
The Boy explores the boundaries between being, acting and narrating in 17 monologues linked by a gym
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‘Vicenta’: DOK Leipzig Review
The story of an Argentinian mother’s quest for her disabled daughter is made all the more effective by Dario Doria’s Plasticene model work
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‘Downstream To Kinshasa’: DOK Leipzig Review (Cannes Label)
Unbowed survivors of a bloody conflict take to the road - and down the river Congo - to protest their case
