Hooked - Pauline Kael

This is the ninth collection of film reviews from Pauline Kael, maintaining the high standards of perception and incisiveness that made her the world's most renowned film critic.Hooked runs from July 1985 to June 1988 and discusses over 100 films from Mona Lisa to Robocop and from Beetlejuice to The Unbearable Lightness of Being. As Kael herself admits in her foreword, she was 'hooked' on films - she watched each one for pleasure - and when she finds a good one she writes about it with a sense of celebration. Critical or laudatory, her reviews are always constructive and intelligent.