Feb 24, 2010 Cinema Issue #30 - Winter 2010 - Vampire Weekend

For 19-year-old Malik (Tahar Rahim), part Corsican, part Arab, it's kill or be killed when he enters prison to serve a six-year sentence for the assault of a police officer. César (Niels Arestrup), a Corsican mafia lieutenant and the prison's most powerful inmate, has his thugs torment Malik until he agrees to murder Reyeb (Hichem Yacoubi), an Arab being held until his trial testimony. More

Jan 29, 2010 Cinema Issue #29 - Year End 2009 - Best of the Decade

First-time actress Katie Jarvis delivers a wonderfully expressive and nuanced lead performance as Mia, an aimless Essex teen in English writer/director Andrea Arnold's superb second feature, Fish Tank. Mia, a foul-mouthed 15-year-old loner with a nose for trouble, lives in a council flat with her single mom (Kierston Wareing) and tween sister (Rebecca Griffiths). More

Dec 18, 2009 Cinema Web Exclusive

Emily Blunt is assured and stately in her role as the British monarch whose accession to the throne in 1837 launched the Victorian era, yet so much is made of Victoria's youth during the early section of the film that the smarts and resolve Blunt brings to her performance becomes a distraction. More

Dec 10, 2009 Cinema Web Exclusive

The cruelty of high school is one of horror movies' most familiar motifs, but few high schools are more purely miserable than the parochial school in Tormented, where even the teachers join the popular kids in humiliating the outcasts. More

Nov 30, 2009 Cinema Web Exclusive

In spite of their finely tailored clothes, the animated creatures in Fantastic Mr. Fox aren't little furry humans, à la Disney. They're wild animals, with dirty, cavity-ridden teeth and barbaric primal instincts. More

Nov 23, 2009 Cinema

Pedro Almodóvar and Penélope Cruz have become an unstoppable duo, and Cruz, more than any other of Almodóvar's regular actors, has the versatility to express the incredibly complex sentiments of her director's vision. More

Nov 11, 2009 Cinema Issue #28 Fall 2009 - Monsters of Folk

Hats off to Adam Yauch's Oscilloscope Laboratories for picking up this potent 2009 Sundance selection starring Ben Foster and Woody Harrelson as Army Casualty Notification Officers, whose duty is to report the deaths of soldiers to their next of kin. More

Oct 30, 2009 Cinema Web Exclusive

Whatever or whoever is killing students in Death Bell is that much more terrifying because it's probably not a ghost. More

Oct 27, 2009 Cinema Issue #28 Fall 2009 - Monsters of Folk

With Antichrist, director Lars von Trier becomes a late entry in the contest against M. Night Shyamalan to see who can fall the farthest the fastest. More