Jonathan Romney

Freelance

Jonathan Romney is a British film critic whose work appears in Sight and Sound and FilmComment.com, among others. He is the author of Atom Egoyan (2003) and lives in London.

Written by Jonathan Romney

Film still of the Star Wars character Jar Jar Binks with large eyes and floppy ears standing in front of a group of similarly armed figures in a battle scene.

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Automation and robotics

Numbing the imagination

CGI has become wearingly dull and cliched. Can its deep weirdness be recovered and filmgoers’ minds stretched again?

Jonathan Romney