"...frustratingly elusive.... skips over Romney's childhood completely, and his Army service and pretty much everything else before his early 20s. What made the man a poet to begin with is thus missing, as is what makes him tick today."
"Gerald Peary's loving tribute to American film criticism... This rapidly paced, breezily entertaining look at a mutating field evokes nostalgia for a time when movies really seemed to matter while somehow avoiding despair about its future."