All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 14
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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
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Reviews‘The Care Of Others’: Thessaloniki Review
Deceptively simple but emotionally jarring mid-length feature from Argentina
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Reviews‘Gym’: Thessaloniki Review
The Boy explores the boundaries between being, acting and narrating in 17 monologues linked by a gym
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Reviews‘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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Reviews‘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
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Reviews‘Girls/Museum’: DOK Leipzig Review
Shelly Silver takes a walk through Leipzig’s modern museum in the company of 16 perceptive young women
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Reviews‘Children’: DOK Leipzig Review
Ada Uspiz’s camera dramatically demonstrates how children grow up all too quickly in Palestine
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Reviews‘Striding Into The Wind’: London Review
‘A Chinese slacker story with a very cinephile flavour’
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Reviews‘The Show’: Review
Alan Moore writes and improbably stars in this genre tribute set in Northampton
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Reviews‘Genus Pan’: Hamburg Review
One of Lav Diaz’s most accessible films chronicles the growing tensions between three men crossing the jungle