All articles by Jonathan Romney – Page 7
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Reviews‘The Animal Kingdom’: Cannes Review
Humans are inexplicably mutating into animals in this inventive French genre mash-up
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Reviews‘Anselm’: Cannes Review
Wim Wenders take a 3D dive into the life and work of German artist Anselm Kiefer
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Reviews‘Sira’: Berlin Review
A kidnapped woman fights for survival in Apolline Traoré’s north Africa-set Berlin award winner
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Reviews‘Till the End of the Night’: Berlin Review
Christoph Hochhäusler’s genre reconstruction takes too long to dawn
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Reviews‘On The Adamant’: Berlin Review
Nicolas Philibert climbs aboard the titular floating Parisian day centre for this warm documentary
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Reviews‘Suzume’: Berlin Review
Makoto Shinkai’s latest lavish anime fantasy is a cosmic coming-of-age crowdpleaser
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Reviews‘Afire’: Berlin Review
Christian Petzold brings a wry comedy of manners to Berlin competition, moving the German director in an ‘entirely different direction’
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Reviews‘The Plough’: Berlin Review
The Garrel clan turn out in force for father Philippe’s domestic saga, set in a family of puppeteers
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Reviews‘The Burdened’: Berlin Review
A struggling couple in Aden face up to hard choices in Amr Gamal’s abortion drama
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Reviews‘Totem’: Berlin Review
Lila Avilés follows ‘The Chambermaid’ with this elegant drama of a family in crisis
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Reviews‘Disco Boy’: Berlin Review
Franz Rogowski is a magnetic presence in Giacomo Abbruzzese’s drama about the French Foreign Legion
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Reviews‘The Adults’: Berlin Review
Michael Cera is one of three dysfunctional siblings in Dustin Guy Defa’s comedy drama
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Reviews‘Superpower’: Berlin Review
’Frenetically-paced, awkwardly narcissistic’: Sean Penn and Aaron Kaufman present their account of the war in Ukraine
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Reviews‘Perpetrator’: Berlin Review
Jennifer Reeder’s anarchic genre-blender stars Alicia Silverstone and emerging star Kiah McKirnan
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Reviews‘Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything’: Berlin Review
A young woman embarks on a taboo relationship just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in Emily Atef’s elegant, erotic drama
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Reviews‘Passages’: Sundance Review
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Franz Rogowski and Ben Whishaw make Ira Sachs’ latest a ‘sexy proposition in every respect’
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Reviews‘Girl’: Sundance Review
Adura Onashile’s debut is set in Glasgow where a migrant and her daughter try to make their home
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2022: Jonathan Romney
A longtime contributor to Screen, Jonathan Romney also writes for Film Comment, Sight & Sound and The Observer, and teaches at the UK’s National Film and Television School.
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Reviews‘Darkling’: Review
A Serbian family struggle to survive in 1990s Kosovo in Serbia’s Oscar contender
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Reviews‘No End’: Busan Review
Jafar Panahi collaborator Nader Saeivar’s second feature explores the manipulative nature of Iran’s police state