Jonathan Romney

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Los Angeles Times, Screen Daily, The Guardian, The Observer (UK)
For 304 reviews, this critic has graded:
  • 54% higher than the average critic
  • 1% same as the average critic
  • 45% lower than the average critic
On average, this critic grades 6.7 points higher than other critics. (0-100 point scale)

Jonathan Romney's Scores

  • Movies
  • TV
Average review score: 72
Highest review score: 100 Son of Saul
Lowest review score: 30 Waiting for the Barbarians
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 221 out of 304
  2. Mixed: 79 out of 304
  3. Negative: 4 out of 304
304 movie reviews
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    • 92 Metascore
    • 90 Jonathan Romney
    One More Time with Feeling
    To say that Dominik’s film touches on a raw nerve is an understatement, but the film, dedicated to the memory of Arthur, is revealing both about these musicians’ creative processes, and about questions of mourning, trauma and emotional survival
    • 83 Metascore
    • 90 Jonathan Romney
    Being 17
    Co-scripted by Céline Sciamma, director of Water Lilies and Girlhood, Being 17 manifestly benefits from her insight into the problems of young people searching for their social and sexual identities; this, combined with Téchiné’s controlled vision and superb direction of actors, makes the new film a quietly potent proposition.
    • 72 Metascore
    • 70 Jonathan Romney
    Neither Heaven Nor Earth
    This debut feature by French director Clément Cogitore has a highly suggestive philosophical agenda, but at the same time functions as a gripping, subtly eerie drama which keeps you guessing even while it maintains its supernatural (or theological) undertow simmering beneath the surface.
    • 66 Metascore
    • 80 Jonathan Romney
    The Tenth Man
    Low-key in mood, Daniel Burman’s film adeptly balances character-driven drama, picaresque street humour and quasi-documentary content, depicting a milieu that will feel intriguingly unfamiliar even to viewers who think that cinema has shown them every possible angle of Jewish life.
    • 77 Metascore
    • 70 Jonathan Romney
    Zero Days
    While the urgency of the message emerges powerfully, the details are often hard to absorb, as Gibney skips from political information to technical specs.
    • 81 Metascore
    • 90 Jonathan Romney
    Raw
    The young cast, from the newbie leads to an army of go-for-it extras, are terrific, and Marillier is something else – ferociously expressive in a performance that’s no-holds-barred on every front.
    • 64 Metascore
    • 70 Jonathan Romney
    Mimosas
    This is partly a consummate figures-in-a-landscape study, with characters – and their accompanying mules - often merging into the vastness of a varied, but usually profoundly, inhospitable landscape. But the cast makes striking use of non-professionals, and Laxe has an unerring eye for faces that tell a story.
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