All articles by Jonathan Romney
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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
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Reviews‘Exit 8’ review: Tokyo’s subway is an endless purgatory in ‘ingenious’ video game adaptation
Director Genki Kawamura’s twisting, inventive chiller bows in Cannes Midnight
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Reviews‘Magellan’ review: Lav Diaz directs Gael Garcia Bernal as the titular Portuguese explorer
The prolific Filipino auteur serves up a handsome, accessible historical biopic
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Reviews‘A Magnificent Life’ review: Sylvain Chomet animates the life of Marcel Pagnol
’Triplets of Belleville’ director presents presents a rose-tinted view of the writer/director
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Reviews‘Orwell: 2+2=5’ review: Raoul Peck links the writer, thinker and activist to the Orwellian present day
Peck’s wide-ranging, cluttered film is several documentaries in one
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Reviews‘Sirât’ review: Oliver Laxe’s long strange trip stars Sergi López
Fraught trek across the desert in search of missing daughter is a cinematic risk for French-Spanish auteur
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Reviews‘Two Prosecutors’ review: Sergei Loznitsa returns to fiction with a rigorous Stalin-era fable
The Ukranian writer/director’s Kafka-esque film is based on a story by author and gulag prisoner Georgy Demidov
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Reviews‘Enzo’ review: Directors’ Fortnight opens with Laurent Cantet’s last film, directed by Robin Campillo
A ‘powerful valedictory’ from the late French auteur focuses on an adolescent working on a building side outside Mareseilles
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Reviews‘Holding Liat’ review: Israeli family suffers their own hostage crisis
Berlin doc winner confronts the aftermath of the Hamas attacks of October 7
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Reviews‘What Does That Nature Say To You’ review: Long chats and fast zooms with Hong Sangsoo
The 33rd feature from South Korea’s profilic auteur is a little unfocused
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Reviews‘Kontinental ’25’ review: Radu Jude returns after winning the Golden Bear
Berlin Competition title is a satirical state-of-the-world treatise
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Reviews‘After This Death’ review: Niche US-set mystery is an 'arch, implausible affair'
Argentianian filmmaker Lucio Castro’s second feature bows as a Berlinale Special
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Reviews‘Dreams (Sex Love)’ review: Dag Johan Haugerud concludes his trilogy at Berlin
Sensitive coming-of-age story is a wisful end to the Norwegian auteur’s work
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Reviews‘Mother’s Baby’ review: Postpartum stress under the lens in meticulous Berlin title
Marie Leuenberger gives a terrific performance in a drama that leans into horror
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Reviews‘The Message’ review: Low-key black-and-white pleasure from Argentina’s Iván Fund
Berlin Competition title is a road trip through the magic of childhood
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Reviews‘Reflection In A Dead Diamond’ review: Fast and frenetic movie geek nostalgia
Brussels-based Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani premiere their fourth film in Berlin competition