
Jonathan Romney
Film Critic and Writer at Freelance
Film, misc. Writer @FilmComment, @SightSoundMag, @ObsNewReview, @Screendaily.Screenwriter, Fiona Tan's HISTORY'S FUTURE. Now teaching @NFTSFilmTV
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1 week ago |
bfi.org.uk | Francesca Steele |Nicolas Rapold |Jonathan Romney |Christina Newland
Like a jauntier Inside Llewyn Davis (2013), The Ballad of Wallis Island is an affecting comedy that contemplates the pains and pleasures of a musical career in freefall. And as it happens, like the Coen brothers’ film, it stars Carey Mulligan as a woman who represents the protagonist’s romantic failure. Tom Basden is McGwyer, an arrogant, embittered musician racked with self-loathing over desperate celebrity behaviour, like teeth-whitening.
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bfi.org.uk | Nicolas Rapold Festivals |Nicolas Rapold |Jonathan Romney |Christina Newland
Josh O’Connor stars as a wannabe criminal who fumbles a small-time art robbery in Reichardt’s ingenious evocation of 1970s suburban Massachusetts. 29 May 2025Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalHeist movies run on the mechanics of escape and the thrill of getting away with it, but Kelly Reichardt’s latest detoured story brilliantly turns the genre on its head.
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ft.com | Jonathan Romney
The closing night of the Cannes Film Festival is notorious for making jaws drop.
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2 weeks ago |
bfi.org.uk | Christina Newland |Henry Miller |Mark Asch |Jonathan Romney
Reviewed from the 2025 Cannes Film FestivalLong live Spike Lee and long live Denzel Washington. The filmmaker and the towering star of some of his greatest films – not least Malcolm X – are together again for Lee’s latest joint, Highest 2 Lowest, a corporate drama and crime thriller combined into one that’s all about power, money, and self-interest in the world of modern Black capitalism and the music biz.
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bfi.org.uk | Henry Miller |Mark Asch |Jonathan Romney |Giovanni Marchini Camia |Henry Miller
In what is probably his final outing as Ethan Hunt, Tom Cruise squares up against AI in a series of spectacular set-pieces in the sky and sea. 23 May 2025Ethan Hunt’s adversary in the eighth and final (?) Mission: Impossible is AI, but his nemesis, all along, has been gravity. The first he will gladly destroy, taking the internet with it, but the other he has kept coming back to, most memorably in the ‘black vault’ at Langley in the first film and the Burj Khalifa sequence in the fourth.
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