Samir Cinema is a film criticism journal with academic and pop culture appeal. It features everything from rigorous investigations of common film aesthetics to clever film retrospectives to extended film reviews to interviews with filmmakers, and more. As it is a journal, Samir Cinema is meant to represent standards of a traditional academic journal, but it's geared towards be more accessible to the general public. Unlike traditional academic journals, which tend to be written only by and for academics, Samir Cinema features a mix of writers and guest editors from around the world with various backgrounds, including cinephiles, journalists, professors, and other proven experts in the field.