All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 10
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Reviews‘Him’: Moscow Review
Female director Guro Bruusgaard presents a sensitive portrait of modern masculinity
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Reviews‘1970’: Visions du Reel Review
Prolific documentarist Tomasz Wolski explores a historical protest in Poland, and the authorities’ brutal response
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Reviews‘The Belly Of The Mountain’: Visions du Reel Review
An impressionistic French essay film explores the tragedy of a 2013 airline crash in the Alps
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Reviews‘The First 54 Years: An Abbreviated Manual For Military Occupation’: Visions du Reel Review
Sobering, essential documentary focuses on the testimony of Israeli men who served in Gaza and the West Bank
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Reviews‘Is There Anybody Out There?’: Dublin Review
’Covid crisis’ cinema from the students of Trinity College Dublin
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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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Mr Bachmann and His Class’: Berlin Review
Back to the schoolroom for Maria Speth’s engrossing tutorial
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Reviews‘Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn’: Berlin Review
A brash yet slippery piece from Romania’s agent provocateur Radu Jude
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Reviews‘Fabian – Going to the Dogs’: Berlin Review
Tom Schilling stars in Domink Graf’s elaborate 1931 Berlin-set drama
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Reviews‘In The Earth’: Sundance Review
Ben Wheatley returns to (his) nature with a pandemic sci-fi scarer starring Joel Fry
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Reviews‘The Pink Cloud’: Sundance Review
An uncannily prescient drama from Brazil marks a powerful debut from Iuli Gerbase
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Reviews‘Human Factors’: Sundance Review
Ronny Trocker’s cat-and-mouse game with the viewer strays into Haneke territory
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Reviews‘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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FeaturesFilms 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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Reviews‘Radiograph Of A Family’: IDFA Review
What led Firouzeh Khosrovani’s mother to embrace revolutionary Islam so fervently?
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘Til Kingdom Come’: IDFA Review
A provocative look at the links between Israel and American evangelical Christian groups