Paperback. 1st edition softcover published 1989 by Dutton. Very clean; no marks or creases; pages bright; binding tight. Only light wear. 510 pages; Index. Language: English. Includes Blue Velvet, Hairspray, Beetlejuice, Shoah. 'In this, her 9th collection of reviews reprinted from The New Yorker, Kael assesses more than 150 movies released between mid-1985 and mid-1988. As usual, she is most attuned to nuances of performances and the fine points of plotting. She again directs her strongest scorn toward those overly self-conscious movies like Back to the Future and Stand By Me, and those constructed around empty technique like Top Gun, while praising the unpretentious charms of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Re-Animator, and everything by Jonathan Demme. It is her willingness, finally, to argue the shortcomings of such popular films as Platoon, Hannah and Her Sisters, Fatal Attraction, and Broadcast News that gives the collection its lasting value.'--Marshall Deutelbaum, Library Journal, 1989. Keywords: cinema, critic, critical, criticism, Eighties, 1980s, '80s.