Reviews round-up
A Sudden Flicker of Light
by David Thomson
3 of 4 critics positive
9 reviews: 1 rave, 2 positives, 1 pan; 5 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies”
A Sudden Flicker of Light by David Thomson review – a brilliantly eccentric history of the movies
“delivers an insightful history of filmmaking”
A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of the Movies by David Thomson
“the opinionated, punchy David Thomson looks back on his five”
Mad directors and erotic sharks: my fifty years as a film critic
“Rarely has David Thomson been more wrong.”
Movies Are Good, Actually
Film historian David Thomson’s A Sudden Flicker of Light casts an eclectic thread from Norma Desmond to Donald Trump
A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of the Movies – big screen questions
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