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Universal acclaim- based on 6 Ratings

  • Summary: In this documentary, a filmmaker discovers a great unknown book and set out on a quest to learn why the book and writer vanished. (JETFilms)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 18 out of 24
  2. Negative: 1 out of 24
  1. 100
    Moskowitz may soon find himself in the same boat as many of the artists he is analyzing, because Stone Reader is going to be one tough act to follow.
  2. A marvelous literary thriller that gets at the way books can stay with people forever.
  3. 60
    There's a terrific short film somewhere inside Mark Moskowitz's feature-length documentary Stone Reader. Unfortunately, it's buried within a flabby 128-minute slog that feels like a rough draft nobody had the heart to edit down.
  4. The film is a disappointment, and at more than two hours' running time, a very long disappointment.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 6
  2. Negative: 0 out of 6

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