Critically Acclaimed

by J. Ryan Stradal (Editor), Adam Cushman (Editor), Summer Block (Contributor)

"A large portion of this money, we of course have now learned, was put toward the scientific enterprise of discovering a new planet in the solar system and then, no other way to describe it, blowing it up."
A fun and poignant collection of real reviews of fake movies by some of today's best and brightest writers.
What seems like a funny, whimsical book, is actually an acute look at how cultural criticism works, what we find important or unimportant, and how movies shape our world to a certain extent.
Featuring writers like James Franco, Kevin Wilson (author of The Family Fang), Antoine Wilson (author of Panorama City), Comedian Sofiya Alexandra, and many, many, more.

189 pages, Paperback

Published January 9, 2018

About the author

J. Ryan Stradal is the author of New York Times bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest, which won the Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for fiction, the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for fiction, and the American Booksellers Association Indie's Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year.

His second novel, the national bestseller The Lager Queen of Minnesota, won the WILLA Literary Award and was a finalist for the Heartland Booksellers Award, as was his third novel, the instant national bestseller Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club.

His next book, Next Week When Things Calm Down, about the adventures of an extremely generous elementary school lunch lady, is coming from Atria Books in 2027.

His shorter writing has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Granta, The Rumpus, and The Guardian, among other places.