Powerful and even emotional ... probably one of the best books about what it's like to be a Famous Person's Friend. And it's almost certainly the definitive Weller biography.

Fascinating... Hewitt pries into the dark corners of a personality that has long been kept under lock and key.

A one-off... an intimate picture of a seemingly arrogant man

Entertaining insight and audacity - Dessau has been reviewing comedy for more than 30 years, and knows his stuff ... A fascinating look at the dark side of stand-up

Its sporadic vulgarity leavened by wit and insight, the book mirrors the mood of a late-night gig.

Catching Mark Kermode in full rant is like witnessing an irate bloke slagging off an unfaithful mistress. Only funnier ... Disagreeing with Kermode is just as much fun as agreeing with him

A spectacularly well-researched and vehement argument

Combines historical context with hilariously barbed anecdotes

The angrier Mark Kermode gets, the funnier he is; good news then that this book is FURIOUS

[A] laugh-out-loud account that will tickle the funny bone of any film fanatic

Witty and incisive

Cutting and witty

[Kermode] clearly has a profound love of film and the depth of knowledge to go with it

An angry blast about the state of cinema-going

Kermode sits in the stalls peeking through his fingers at what we’re served up on the silver screen and motormouthing about bad cinema in a frank and funny counterblast to all the Hollywood hype

The Good, the Bad and the Multiplex is the film critic’s anguished cri de coeur against overpriced 3D film tickets and soulless cinemas ... often very funny and enlivened with wonderful digressions borne out of a lifetime’s movie-going

Difficult to ignore

a spritely, spirited tome ... with welcome doses of spicy self-deprecation and fascinating cultural history.