As my copious citations of McDonald prove, he honed a kind of cultural criticism-personal but outward-looking, raunchy yet brainy, funny and furious-rare in his era and barely in evidence today, when we are overrun with professional (and paraprofessional) opinionators whose writing rarely rises above plot synopses with some adjectives and adverbs thrown in. -Bookforum Cruising the Movies ... Read moreis film writing that delivers that magic with verve, wit, and self-deprecation. It is, against all odds, a piece of film criticism that is as entertaining as the movies that it looks at, and contemporary film writers would do well to take a page from Boyd's book. -PopMatters Show Less