This is a literary mystery story that will have you on the edge of your seat while it thrills you with an inside look at writing, publishing, and survival for creative types.

| Jun 15, 2021

weakly copies Michael Moore's dogged pursuit and film style

| Original Score: C | Jun 3, 2013

It's rare enough when a documentary achieves cult status. Rarer still when it actually changes lives. The Stone Reader, a movie about the love of reading, manages to do both.

| Nov 1, 2007

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 16, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 16, 2005

| Original Score: 5/5 | Mar 5, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 23, 2004

It sends viewers running to the bookstore or the library.

Full Review | Original Score: 10/10 | May 7, 2004

You're not likely to see a more impassioned and heartfelt tribute to the joy of reading.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 21, 2004

Loved the discovery, but hated the man's forcing of himself on the project.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 11, 2004

It is about that almost mystical connection between authors and their readers.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 14, 2004

Stone Reader is in many ways an undisciplined home movie ... But that's OK. Little by little Moskowitz builds his airtight case that reading matters.

| Oct 24, 2003

Just as in a good read, the point is more in the journey than the destination.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2003

Worthwhile for anybody with an interest in reading or writing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 2003

Failure can take an enormous toll on a writer, but success sometimes can be just as brutal.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 6, 2003

This filmed travelogue, a cinematic one-man's-diary -- or whatever you care to call it -- never really gives a reason for the audience to care about its subjects or its central thesis.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 20, 2003

This navel-gazing documentary is too much about Moskowitz and not enough about the object of his obsession.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 19, 2003

It's an intimate look at the gears inside one person's head and a study of how an obsession, when handled judiciously, can be enlightening.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 18, 2003