‘Movies That Mattered’ Captures Dave Kehr’s Astute Film Criticism
Dave Kehr is one of the best long-form essay writers people read for clear and sometimes brutally honest indictments of film.
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Preston Sturges: A Woefully Underrated Filmmaker
One of the Golden Age of Hollywood's most richly complicated and woefully underrated figures gets the critical attention he deserves in this essay collection on his life and movies.
‘Political Animals’ Is a Rich and Wide-ranging Study of Contemporary Feminist Film
“Girls to the front!” Sophie Mayer’s superb study of contemporary feminist filmmaking is provocative, critically insightful and addictively readable.
Order, Chaos, and Faith: The Themes and Form of ‘The Dark Knight’
Originally a story about the perils of combating organised crime, The Dark Knight makes radical departures resulting in tonally disparate contexts whose relevance is not always evident.