Published in 2025
958 pages
Pauline Kael won the National Book Award for her film criticism in 1974. The film critic for The New Yorker from 1968 to 1991, she is the author of more than a dozen books on the movies.
What is this book about?
A collection of Pauline Kael’s reviews from the silent era to the 1980s. The bible of movie review collections.
The intelligent person’s guide to the movies, with more than 2,800 reviews. Look up a movie in this guide, and chances are you’ll find yourself reading on about the next movie and the next. Pauline Kael’s reviews aren’t just provocative—they’re addictive.
These brief, informative reviews, written for the “Goings On About Town” section of The New Yorker, provide an immense range of listings—a masterly critical history of American and foreign film. This is probably the only movie guide you’ll want to read for the sheer pleasure of it.
