For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism

While tanking as a viable livelihood, American film criticism is up to its eyeballs in affectionate, retrospective tributes. For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009)--a documentary mash note directed and written by the critic-scholar and now filmmaker Gerald Peary, a professor of communications and journalism and longtime film critic at The Boston Phoenix--sounds last call at the wake. (Thomas Doherty)