Apr 26, 2012 Cinema Web Exclusive

Richard Linklater has traversed a stunning stylistic breadth over a sublime filmmaking career spanning more than two decades. Bernie, the director's 15^th feature film, feels oddly safe for the iconoclastic visionary. More

Mar 22, 2012 Cinema Web Exclusive

A publishing phenomenon with over 26 million copies in print, The Hunger Games trilogy seemed bound to become a film from day one. Despite the books’ popularity, The Hunger Games series contains an incredibly difficult story to get right. More

Mar 20, 2012 Cinema Web Exclusive

Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are father and son scholars; each a well-regarded researcher within the field of Talmudic studies with their own individual idea of what should qualify that distinguishment. This familial rivarly is at the center of director Joseph Cedar's absorbing and often darkly comic Footnote, Israel's Academy Award nominee for best foreign picture. More

Mar 02, 2012 Cinema Web Exclusive

When Erma Bombeck said that there was a thin line between laughter and pain, she probably never even imagined the lengths to which Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim would take their comedy. And now that we've quoted a writer who couldn't be at a further end of the comedy spectrum from those two, we can focus on the closest thing in Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie that resembles a plot. More

Mar 01, 2012 Cinema Web Exclusive

Sean "Pellet" Pelletier giddily describes the sensation of being a huge music fan and hearing the band Pentagram for the first time. "It's like being a devout Christian and walking down the street one day and bumping into Jesus, and he knows your name and shakes your hand and asks you over for dinner and drinks." More

Dec 24, 2011 Cinema Web Exclusive

It's not that the amateurish directing is at fault in Angelina Jolie's debut as a writer/director: it borders on competent. But her atrocious script and misguided approach to the subject matter render In the Land of Blood and Honey odious. More

Dec 21, 2011 Cinema Web Exclusive

Based on the first book of the immensely popular Millennium trilogy by the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson, the English-language The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo comes on the heels of the Swedish film version, which was a global blockbuster before reaching the States in a limited but long-running theatrical release last year. More

Dec 09, 2011 Cinema Web Exclusive

Even an ensemble cast of a very high pedigree can't overcome a plot that's been compacted into near-incomprehensibility. John Le Carré's bestselling Cold War thriller Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy was previously adapted as an acclaimed seven-part BBC miniseries. More

Dec 09, 2011 Cinema Web Exclusive

Andrea Riseborough, a chameleonic English actress who earned a BAFTA nomination for her lead performance in the 2008 BBC film, Margaret Thatcher: The Long Walk to Finchley, is bewitching as Wallis Simpson in Madonna's second directorial effort. More