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's NYT bestselling debut, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, won the 2016 American Booksellers Association Indie's Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year, the 2016 SCIBA award for the year's best fiction title, and the 2016 Midwest Booksellers Choice Award for debut fiction. His second novel, The Lager Queen of Minnesota, was an instant national bestseller.

Born and raised in Minnesota, he now lives in Los Angeles. He likes books, craft beer, wine, root beer, sports, and peas.