In this critic's-eye guide to the cinema, Christopher Tookey mixes his own viewpoint with those of leading British and American critics to present a selection of their most laudatory and most merciless judgements on actors, directors and films in the English-speaking cinema and on video. The book exposes occasions when the critics' judgements have been wrong, and each entry explores a film's critical reception at the time of its release, and how it has subsequently been re-evaluated - or reinforced Tookey writes for both The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Mail, and is Vice-Chairman of the British Film Critics' Circle.