However popular and important film critics may be to today’s average film-goer, their contributions to the history of film and even the simpler issue of what to watch on a Saturday night are often ignored or glanced over. FOR THE LOVE OF MOVIES, the new documentary from writer-director Gerald Peary, is a pro-critic approach to film criticism. A long-time critic himself, Peary offers an insiders’ look at a profession under-siege. He provides interviews with critics (Ruby Rich, Andrew Sarris, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Roger Ebert, Elvis Mitchell, to name a few) from sources that you may (or may not) know intimately from blurbs on the back of DVDs at your local Blockbuster. Critics are academics, critics are thinkers, and critics are important literary stylists, with a rich history as old as film itself. Critics are in it ‘for the love of movies,’ but film is still the job of a critic; they don’t simply watch movies for pure enjoyment. A thoughtful documentary, and a love letter to the criticism industry, and a must for cinephile.  “Gerald Peary has spent a lifetime watching movies. Now he’s made one – about people who watch movies.” (Mark Feeney, Boston Globe, September 3, 2009)