Rob Garver's Wonderful "What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael"

I saw Rob Garver’s What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (2019) last night at City Cinema. I enjoyed it immensely. A lot is packed into its one hour and thirty-eight minutes. Swatches of dozens of great movies are artfully interwoven with clips of Kael talking, and of others commenting on her life and work. I particularly enjoyed the way it’s structured around key Kael pieces like “Hud, Deep in the Divided Heart of Hollywood,” “Shoeshine,” “Breathless,” “The Come-Dressed-As-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties,” “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Trash, Art, and the Movies,” “Raising Kane,” and “Tango.” For Kael, it was all about working out her responses. And she did that right there on the page. As she said in the Introduction to her superb For Keeps (1994), 

A friend of mine says that he learned from reading me that “content grows from language, not the other way around.” That’s a generous way of saying that I let it rip, that I don’t know what I think until I’ve said it. The reader is in on my thought processes.