The Complete Unofficial 85th Annual Academy Awards Review Guide

by Kevin T. Rodriguez, Emily Macadam (Editor), Chris Monks (Foreword)

The latest volume in the best-selling “Complete Academy Awards Review Guide” series, “The Complete Unofficial 84th Annual Academy Awards Review Guide” is your complete guide for every movie that received an Oscar nomination for the year 2011! This was the year of instant classics like “12 Years a Slave,” “Gravity,” “Frozen,” and “Captain Phillips.” Each movie gets reviews and graded in this book (even the short films)! Commentary has been added for each film discussing the aftermath of an award being won or not being won. Extras include Top Ten Best & Worst lists, extra editorials, and this volume also introduces a new yearly feature we’re calling “The Academy’s Terrible Three,” which will name the Academy’s worst snub, worst nomination, and worst win. Written with great enthusiasm by Kevin T. Rodriguez and presented by acclaimed movie review site The Movie Wizard.com, “The Complete Unofficial 84th Annual Academy Awards Review Guide” is a must own for your movie reading pleasure!

130 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 14, 2014

Reviews

[Giuseppe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent reviews. My problem with this book, and presumably the series, is that the other feels compelled to insert often irrelevant political discussions in his reviews, and these asides are representative of the author’s views. I think a well written review can sometimes insert politics in the summary, but only when appropriate to the movie, and the reviewer should try to remain as objective as possible. This author inserts political commentary in literally every review, and makes clear he’s more right leaning (which is fine), it just ultimately ruins the art of reviewing, well, art. It’s just off putting that the author is compelled to make every movie review an opportunity to politically rant...which does not make for good entertainment. Just describe and review the movie, and readers (and viewers of the movies) should be given an unencumbered opportunity to make their own conclusions.