All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 5
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Reviews‘No Bears’: Venice Review
Imprisoned Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi delivers a powerful statement of tenacity and defiance
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Reviews‘Call Of God’: Venice Review
Kim Ki-Duk’s posthumous final film fails to leave a lasting impression
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Reviews‘Dry’: Venice Review
Paolo Virzi’s sprawling, inter-connected drama places a parched Rome in the middle of a three-year drought
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Reviews‘Beyond The Wall’: Venice Review
Iranian writer-director Vahid Jalilvand delivers a howl of political fury
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Reviews‘Freedom On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom’: Venice Review
Evgeny Afineevsky assembles urgent, immediate footage from the Ukraine front
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Reviews‘The Maiden’: Venice Review
Canadian Graham Foy’s debut is an ambitious portrait of teenage life
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Reviews‘The Banshees Of Inisherin’: Venice Review
Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson attempt to settle scores in Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic 1920s-set Irish drama
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Reviews‘Master Gardener’: Venice Review
Joel Edgerton seeks redemption in Paul Schrader’s Garden of Eden
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Reviews‘The Happiest Man In The World’: Venice Review
Two 40-somethings connect over a shared past in Teona Strugar Mitevska’s dramatically potent Sarajevo-set feature
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Reviews‘Medusa Deluxe’: Locarno Review
This experimental one-take drama is a darkly comic meta-whodunnit set at a hairdressing competition
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Reviews‘The Ordinaries’: Munich Review
Filmmaker Sophie Linnenbaum makes an inventive debut with this political satire set in a parallel cinematic world
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Reviews‘God Is A Beetle’: Munich Review
Felix Hermann explores the complexities of modern religious faith in his committed, cerebral drama
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Reviews‘Mikado’: Transilvania Review
A taut and involving family drama is at the heart of Emanual Parvu’s second feature
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Reviews‘Babysitter’: Transilvania Review
Monia Chokri delivers a relentlessly over the top Quebecois #MeToo-era comedy
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Reviews‘Salam’: Cannes Review
Doc exploring French rap star Diam’s mental health and conversion to Islam is compromised by the involvement of its subject
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Reviews‘Burning Days’: Cannes Review
Emin Alper’s tense Turkish thriller critiquing maschismo is a standout among this year’s films in Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘The Green Perfume’: Cannes Review
Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Lacoste star in Nicolas Pariser’s whimsical comedy adventure
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Reviews‘The Blue Caftan’: Cannes Review
This beautifully textured Moroccan drama is a ’superbly acted and emotionally resonant offering’
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Reviews‘Stars At Noon’: Cannes Review
Margaret Qualley shines in Claire Denis’ elusive Grand Prix-winning thriller set in Nicaragua
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Reviews‘Tori And Lokita’: Cannes Review
The Dardenne brothers’ moving exposé on migrants arriving in Europe is up with their finest