5001 Nights at the Movies

The celebrated, multi-award-winning film critic's intelligent guide to the movies-with more than 2,800 reviews.

"A master of synopsis, Pauline Kael has contrived to tell us between the covers of one book what eight decades of film are about and who is in them and behind them, and to reflect, swiftly but astutely, on what they signify. No one else has done that; no one else could have done that." -Wallace Shawn, from the Foreword

Look up a movie in this guide, and chances are you'll find yours...