All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 2
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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
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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