SXSW 2009 Festival Genius

FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES is the first feature documentary to tell the rich, colorful, and undeniably controversial story of the American film critic. Though maligned and often misunderstood, by both the industry and the public, talented and passionate critics have reviewed, analyzed, and scrutinized the cinema for virtually its whole history, a hundred years of informed commentary about the art of the film. Curiously, filmmakers have neglected the payback of turning camera on the critics’ astonishing history. Until now.