Reel Views: The Ultimate Guide to the 1000 Best Modern Movies on DVD and Video

I don't always agree with Berardinelli's assessments, but his reviews always tell me why he rated a movie a particular way and give me the information I need to make my own decision. The reviews are well written, concise, and show both an appreciation of movie art and an understanding of movie entertainment.I've read reviews from just about every critic available in print or on the Web. James Berardinelli's reviews are the only reviews I read every week.

I don't always agree with his likes and dislikes in movies but I admire his writing and arguments/critique. His writing style is simple yet witty and caustic.

Granted that the reviews published in this book are available online, I am still quite pleased to own a copy of the book. You can't access the web when you go to a video store while it's easy to carry Berardinelli's book. It saves me time browsing through movie titles that I may be interested to watch. The title index is very helpful since he grouped the movies by genre. James Berardinelli is one of the best, if not the best, online film critic out there and it's about time he gets his work published. His reviews are very insightful and well-written. Although I wished he included some bad movies, those tend to be the humorous reviews.

James Berardinelli is, simply put, the best movie reviewer on the Web. His taste and temperament remind me most of Gene Siskel, the original, and now deceased, partner to Roger Ebert. I have found his reviews to be fair and objective and his recommendations almost always on target. I have been following his reviews for several years, and I'm delighted that he finally published them in book format. At last, I have a reliable source to take with me to the video store to help me wade through the mass of mediocre movies. Just last weekend, his book would have saved me four hours of valuable time I wasted on wretched movies that seemed good from the packaging but turned out on screen (and in the reviews) to be mediocre efforts at best. What a relief.