The Good, The Bad and The Multiplex

a spritely, spirited tome ... with welcome doses of spicy self-deprecation and fascinating cultural history.

The Big Issue in the North

Difficult to ignore

Good Book Guide

The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex is the film critic’s anguished cri de coeur against overpriced 3D film tickets and soulless cinemas ... often very funny and enlivened with wonderful digressions borne out of a lifetime’s movie-going

Books of the Year, Metro

Kermode sits in the stalls peeking through his fingers at what we’re served up on the silver screen and motormouthing about bad cinema in a frank and funny counterblast to all the Hollywood hype

Saga

An angry blast about the state of cinema-going

Christopher Fowler, Books of the Year: Cinema, Independent

[Kermode] clearly has a profound love of film and the depth of knowledge to go with it

Jeff Dawson, Sunday Times

Cutting and witty

Loaded

Witty and incisive

Choice

[A] laugh-out-loud account that will tickle the funny bone of any film fanatic

Star

The angrier Mark Kermode gets, the funnier he is; good news then that this book is FURIOUS

Empire

Combines historical context with hilariously barbed anecdotes

Total Film

A spectacularly well-researched and vehement argument

Sunday Times

Catching Mark Kermode in full rant is like witnessing an irate bloke slagging off an unfaithful mistress. Only funnier ... Disagreeing with Kermode is just as much fun as agreeing with him

Daily Telegraph

Frankly alarming

Metro

Expertly written, funny and fascinating

Shortlist

As impressive as it is entertaining ... Takes a wrecking ball to the studio chicanery

Word

Kermode has nutsy-boltsy knowledge, fierce and idiosyncratic enthusiasms ... and some very interesting things to say

Guardian

Very angry and very funny

Empire