Movie Love

With the publication of I Lost it at the Movies in 1965, Pauline Kael turned routine movie reviewing into an unprecedented popular art form, and her work remains exemplars of the genre and valuable in their own right historiographically as cultural commentary on mid-20th century mass media.

Movie Love, her tenth collection, brings together all her reviews from October 1988 to March 1991, when she chose to retire as the New Yorker’s regular film critic.

More than 80 movies receive the legendary full-length Kael treatment. Among them are Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Dangerous Liaisons, Rain Man, Batman, Let’s Get Lost, Casualties of War, Dead Poets Society, My Left Foot, The Fabulous Baker Boys, Enemies: A Love Story, Goodfellas, The Grifters, The Godfather Part III and Vincent & Theo.

Kael is not only a marvellous critic, she is also a marvellous writer, which makes her unmatchable and her books indispensable. In Movie Love, she continues to disturb, explain, entertain and enlighten