All articles by Jonathan Romney
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Reviews‘In The Hand Of Dante’ review: Oscar Isaac takes a dual role in Julian Schnabel’s offbeat biopic
Gerard Butler, Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa also star in Schnabel’s sprawling look at the Italian poet
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Reviews‘Human Resource’ review: A pregnant worker navigates a hostile world in Thai drama
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s Venice Horizons title features an enigmatic central performance from Prapamonton Eiamchan
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Reviews‘A House of Dynamite’ review: Idris Elba heads Kathryn Bigelow’s ambitious nuclear age thriller
Elba leads a superb cast including Rebecca Ferguson and Jared Harris in the director’s Venice competition title
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Reviews‘Made In EU’ review: Stephan Komandarev follows ‘Blaga’s Lessons’ with sharp Bulgarian Covid drama
Gergana Pletnyova stars as a seamstress who becomes the scapegoat for a Covid-19 outbreak
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Reviews‘The Wizard Of The Kremlin’ review: Jude Law impresses as Vladimir Putin in Oliver Assayas drama
Dense Venice competition title also stars Paul Dano as Putin’s chief strategist
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Reviews‘Landmarks’ review: Lucrecia Martel critiques Argentina’s treatment of its Indigenous communities
The writer/director’s debut documentary focuses on a real-life murder trial
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Reviews‘The Holy Boy’ review: Paolo Strippoli’s third feature is a warped coming-of-age tale
Italian horror from the director of ’Flowing’ premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘Milk Teeth’ review: A young girl searches for her missing sister in 1980s Romania
Mihai Mincan’s beguiling sophomore feature premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Strange River’ review: A teenage boy encounters hidden desires on a trip along the Danube
Catalan director Jaume Claret Muxart’s compelling coming-of-age drama plays Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Orphan’ review: László Nemes sets his striking coming-of-age drama in 1950s Budapest
Accomplished Venice competition title follows a teenage boy struggling to navigate a changing world
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Reviews‘La Grazia’ review: An impressive Toni Servillo anchors Paolo Sorrentino’s austere Venice opener
The actor plays a fictional Italian president facing the end of his tenure in Sorrentino’s serious-minded follow-up to ‘Parthenope’
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Reviews‘Mortician’ review: Sensitive, slow-burn drama follows two Iranian exiles in Canada
Abdolreza Kahani’s latest stars Nima Sadr and singer Golazin Ardestani
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Reviews‘Dracula’ review: Romania’s Radu Jude presents a typically inventive study of the vampire myth
The director follows up Berlin Silver Bear-winning Kontinental ’25 with this provocative portmanteau
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Reviews‘Cielo’ review: A young girl embarks on a quest across Bolivia in this uncertain fable
Alberto Sciamma’s visually inventive feature comes to Fantasia after multiple wins at Fantasporto
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Reviews‘I’m Not Stiller’ review: Paula Beer and Albrecht Schuch star in 1950s Zurich-set thriller
Stefan Haupt’s adaptation of Max Frisch’s novel about identity premieres in Munich
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Reviews‘Colours Of Time’ review: Cédric Klapisch delivers a crowdpleasing comedy of France past and present
Suzanne Lindon headlines a film which is ‘entertaining and classy, if shamelessly contrived’
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Reviews‘Woman And Child’ review: Saeed Roustaee drama heaps misfortune on an Iranian widow
Parinaz Izadyar stars in overwrought Cannes Competition title
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Reviews‘Yes’ review: Nadav Lapid’s post-October 7 satire is loudly divisive
Ariel Bronz stars as a musician tasked with composing a new Israeli national anthem
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Reviews‘The Disappearance Of Josef Mengele’ review: Kirill Serebrennikov’s drama tracks post-War life of the SS ‘Angel of Death’
’Fascinating, if not entirely successful’ adaptation sees August Diehl play the Nazi responsible for horrific human experiments at Auschwitz
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Reviews‘Once Upon A Time In Gaza’ review: Satirical, resonant follow-up to ‘Gaza Mon Amour’
Latest film from the Nasser brothers looks at everyday life in Gaza City in the 2010s