![[L-R]: Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas](https://d1nslcd7m2225b.cloudfront.net/Pictures/274x183/6/4/1/1471641_pxl_20251224_103354743_618426_crop.jpg)
All articles by Jonathan Romney
-
Reviews‘Wolfram’ review: Warwick Thornton’s period Outback thriller is visually stunning, narratively flat
The acclaimed director’s Berlin Competition title is a sequel-of-sorts to 2017’s ’Sweet Country’
-
Reviews‘Flies’ review: Fernando Eimbcke’s deadpan Mexico City comedy stars a commanding Teresita Sanchez
Eimbcke’s black-and-white follow-up to ‘Olmo’ premieres in Berlin Competition
-
Reviews‘My Wife Cries’ review: A Berlin couple attempt to connect in Angela Schanelec’s typically inscrutable drama
The director’s Berlin Competition title should appeal to the filmmaker’s devotees
-
Reviews‘Queen At Sea’ review: Juliette Binoche, Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall stun in fearless dementia drama
Director Lance Hammer returns with expertly-judged Berlin Competition title
-
Reviews‘Nina Roza’ review: A Bulgarian-Canadian art curator is drawn back to his roots in sombre drama
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles’ Berlin Competition title stars actor/director Galin Stoev
-
Reviews‘The Blood Countess’ review: Isabelle Huppert sinks her teeth into Ulrike Ottinger’s lavish vampire spoof
Ottinger’s extravagant Berlin Special Gala is pitched for cult and crossover appeal
-
Reviews‘We Are All Strangers’ review: Anthony Chen’s involving drama charts generational tensions in contemporary Singapore
Berlin Competition drama follows ‘Ilo Ilo’ and ‘Wet Season’ to close the filmmaker’s ‘Growing Up’ trilogy
-
Reviews‘Chronicles From The Siege’ review: Arabic-language debut feature is intense tapestry of life, death and courage
Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah Alkhabtib’s Berlin Perspectives title is fuelled by its performances
-
Reviews‘Dao’ review: Alain Gomis returns with sprawling meditation on migration, ritual and memory
The director follows ’Félicité’ with an expansive docu-drama spanning France and Guinea-Bissau
-
Reviews‘The Red Hangar’ review: Tightly-controlled 1970s Chilean thriller proves powerfully timely
Juan Pablo Sallato’s impressive feature debut takes place at the beginning of the Pinochet regime
-
Reviews‘Only Rebels Win’ review: Hiam Abbass anchors this uneven but impassioned Beirut melodrama
Danielle Arbid’s latest feature confronts social prejudice and displacement in contemporary Lebanon
-
FeaturesFilms of the year 2025: Jonathan Romney
A longtime contributor to Screen International, Jonathan Romney also writes forFilm Comment, Sight & Sound and The Observer.
-
FeaturesNina Hoss on her gender-switched role in ‘Hedda’: “It was the biggest revelation”
German actress Nina Hoss shines as a star academic in Hedda
-
Reviews‘El Sett’ review: Reverential, heavy-handed biopic of Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum
Lavish production from ’The Yacoubian Building’ director Marwan Hamed premieres in Marrakech
-
Reviews‘Remake’ review: Ross McElwee’s extraordinary, profound documentary looks back at a life behind the camera
The latest film from the ‘Sherman’s March’ director plays Stockholm and IDFA following its Venice premiere
-
Reviews‘Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through The Eyes Of High School Students’ review: Claire Simon’s involving celebration of the French author
DOK Leipzig’s opening film explores how modern French teenagers respond to Ernaux’s body of work
-
Reviews‘Giant’ review: Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry spar in unpretentious boxing biopic
Rowan Athale’s film is executive produced by Sylvester Stallone and premieres in London
-
Reviews‘Hair, Paper, Water…’ review: Poetic documentary shines a light on Vietnam’s Indigenous Ruc people
Nicolas Graux and Truonh Minh Quy’s film follows a 60-year-old Ruc woman in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province
-
Reviews‘Moss & Freud’ review: Dramatisation of the 2002 collaboration between Lucian Freud and Kate Moss
Derek Jacobi and Ellie Bamber star as the artist and model in James Lucas’s lacklustre drama
-
Reviews‘Joan Of Arc’ review: Hlynur Pálmason’s lyrical ode to the Icelandic landscape
The director’s non-narrative companion to ’The Love That Remains’ again features his three children