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Book Review: Before, During, and After — A Look Back at Patriotic and Paranoid American Cinema
Informative new books look at a pair of tumultuous periods in American history — the Second World War and the Cold War — when Hollywood rode a particularly rocky political roller coaster.
Book Review: “Rainer on Film” — Indispensable Movie Criticism
With a good critic like Peter Rainer, the opinion itself is the least interesting part of the review. It’s the contextualizing of the opinion. And the choice of words on paper.