{"product_id":"9780226495712","title":"Movies That Mattered: More Reviews from a Transformative Decade","description":"Dave Kehr’s writing about film has garnered high praise from both readers and fellow critics. Among his admirers are some of his most influential contemporaries. Roger Ebert called Kehr “one of the most gifted film critics in America.” James Naremore thought he was “one of the best writers on film the country as a whole has ever produced.” But aside from remarkably detailed but brief capsule reviews and top-ten lists, you won’t find much of Kehr’s work on the Internet, and many of the longer and more nuanced essays for which he is best known have not yet been published in book form.\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cbr\u003e With \u003ci\u003eWhen Movies Mattered,\u003c\/i\u003e readers welcomed the first collection of Kehr’s criticism, written during his time at the \u003ci\u003eChicago Reader\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eMovies That Mattered\u003c\/i\u003e is its sequel, with fifty more reviews and essays drawn from the archives of both the \u003ci\u003eChicago Reader\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eChicago\u003c\/i\u003e magazine from 1974 to 1986. As with \u003ci\u003eWhen Movies Mattered\u003c\/i\u003e, the majority of the reviews offer in-depth analyses of individual films that are among Kehr’s favorites, from a thoughtful discussion of the sobering Holocaust documentary \u003ci\u003eShoah\u003c\/i\u003e to an irresistible celebration of the raucous comedy \u003ci\u003eUsed Cars\u003c\/i\u003e. But fans of Kehr’s work will be just as taken by his dissections of critically acclaimed films he found disappointing, including \u003ci\u003eThe Shining, Apocalypse Now\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRaiders of the Lost Ark\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Whether you’re a long-time reader or just discovering Dave Kehr, the insights in \u003ci\u003eMovies That Mattered\u003c\/i\u003e will enhance your appreciation of the movies you already love—and may even make you think twice about one or two you hated.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118578745584,"sku":"9780226495712","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780226495712_p0.jpg?v=1763675075","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780226495712","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}