Jonathan Romney
Reviews‘Wolfram’ review: Warwick Thornton’s period Outback thriller is visually stunning, narratively flat
The acclaimed director’s Berlin Competition title is a sequel-of-sorts to 2017’s ’Sweet Country’
Reviews‘Flies’ review: Fernando Eimbcke’s deadpan Mexico City comedy stars a commanding Teresita Sanchez
Eimbcke’s black-and-white follow-up to ‘Olmo’ premieres in Berlin Competition
Reviews‘My Wife Cries’ review: A Berlin couple attempt to connect in Angela Schanelec’s typically inscrutable drama
The director’s Berlin Competition title should appeal to the filmmaker’s devotees
Reviews‘Queen At Sea’ review: Juliette Binoche, Tom Courtenay and Anna Calder-Marshall stun in fearless dementia drama
Director Lance Hammer returns with expertly-judged Berlin Competition title
Reviews‘Nina Roza’ review: A Bulgarian-Canadian art curator is drawn back to his roots in sombre drama
Geneviève Dulude-De Celles’ Berlin Competition title stars actor/director Galin Stoev
Reviews‘The Blood Countess’ review: Isabelle Huppert sinks her teeth into Ulrike Ottinger’s lavish vampire spoof
Ottinger’s extravagant Berlin Special Gala is pitched for cult and crossover appeal
Reviews‘We Are All Strangers’ review: Anthony Chen’s involving drama charts generational tensions in contemporary Singapore
Berlin Competition drama follows ‘Ilo Ilo’ and ‘Wet Season’ to close the filmmaker’s ‘Growing Up’ trilogy
Reviews‘Chronicles From The Seige’ review: Arabic-language debut feature is intense tapestry of life, death and courage
Palestinian-Syrian director Abdallah Alkhabtib’s Berlin Perspectives title is fuelled by its performances
Reviews‘Wax & Gold’ review: Ruth Beckermann explores Addis Ababa’s Hilton Hotel as a microcosm for modern Ethiopia
The Austrian filmmaker’s follow-up to ‘Favoriten’ premieres as a Berlin Special Screening
Reviews‘Dao’ review: Alain Gomis returns with sprawling meditation on migration, ritual and memory
The director follows ’Félicité’ with an expansive docu-drama spanning France and Guinea-Bissau
Reviews‘The Red Hangar’ review: Tightly-controlled 1970s Chilean thriller proves powerfully timely
Juan Pablo Sallato’s impressive feature debut takes place at the beginning of the Pinochet regime
Reviews‘Only Rebels Win’ review: Hiam Abbass anchors this uneven but impassioned Beirut melodrama
Danielle Arbid’s latest feature confronts social prejudice and displacement in contemporary Lebanon
FeaturesFilms of the year 2025: Jonathan Romney
A longtime contributor to Screen International, Jonathan Romney also writes forFilm Comment, Sight & Sound and The Observer.
FeaturesNina Hoss on her gender-switched role in ‘Hedda’: “It was the biggest revelation”
German actress Nina Hoss shines as a star academic in Hedda
Reviews‘El Sett’ review: Reverential, heavy-handed biopic of Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum
Lavish production from ’The Yacoubian Building’ director Marwan Hamed premieres in Marrakech
Reviews‘Remake’ review: Ross McElwee’s extraordinary, profound documentary looks back at a life behind the camera
The latest film from the ‘Sherman’s March’ director plays Stockholm and IDFA following its Venice premiere
Reviews‘Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through The Eyes Of High School Students’ review: Claire Simon’s involving celebration of the French author
DOK Leipzig’s opening film explores how modern French teenagers respond to Ernaux’s body of work
Reviews‘Giant’ review: Pierce Brosnan and Amir El-Masry spar in unpretentious boxing biopic
Rowan Athale’s film is executive produced by Sylvester Stallone and premieres in London
Reviews‘Hair, Paper, Water…’ review: Poetic documentary shines a light on Vietnam’s Indigenous Ruc people
Nicolas Graux and Truonh Minh Quy’s film follows a 60-year-old Ruc woman in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province
Reviews‘Moss & Freud’ review: Dramatisation of the 2002 collaboration between Lucian Freud and Kate Moss
Derek Jacobi and Ellie Bamber star as the artist and model in James Lucas’s lacklustre drama