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View All (19) audience reviews. s r An overview of film critics over history. Informative and simple. Saw it on TCM. Rated 2/5 Stars • Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review dave s...
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- Gerald Peary
- Documentary
Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. MaryAnn Johanson Flick Filosopher. [W]hat we see here is that film criticism as an intellectual free-for-all is not something new to the Internet...
Mar 28, 2009 · By Joe Leydon. Very much like a survey course for college freshmen, “For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism” briskly covers a great deal of ground, and...
Aug 31, 2007 · Okay movie hopelessly out of date. This is an affectionate look at American film critics and the rise of criticism that was already out of date when it came out. It's not the movies fault, but it does make a viewing a quaint experience. Also, any time Harry knowles is on screen is cringeworthy.
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- Documentary, History
- Gerald Peary
- 2007-08-31
Apr 5, 2010 · For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism should be required viewing for anyone who wants to comment on the state of film criticism today: as critic turned filmmaker Gerald Peary’s documentary demonstrates, the field has been chock full of personality clashes, political posturing, conflicts of interest, and damned ...
For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism is a 2009 documentary film dramatizing a hundred years of American film criticism through film clips, historic photographs, and on-camera interviews with many of today’s important reviewers, mostly print but also Internet.
For the Love of Movies is an interesting, if rather dry, history of film criticism. It starts from the beginning of cinema going to the present day. Overall, it is a mixed bag with difficulties in pacing.
