"Stone Reader" is a debut of enormous craft, surety and resourcefulness --- a superlative, soul-baring non-fiction work that will generate torrential word-of-mouth among auds lucky enough to catch it.

"Stone Reader" sells itself as a detective story, but it's really a love story. A love story about books. Mark Moscowitz's documentary about his search for the author of an obscure, out-of-print tome ...

In his well-regarded documentary “Stone Reader,” Mark Moskowitz, an agreeable-seeming director of political commercials, endeavors to track down the author of a novel that he tried to crack at age 18.

If you grew up with parents who read to you and rewarded you with books, or if your eyes welled up the first time your own child reached for Dr. Seuss, a lilting, funny and thoroughly entertaining ...

In 1972, 18-year-old Mark Moskowitz, who has since become an acclaimed director of political spots and commercials, picked up The Stones of Summer, a well-reviewed book by first-time author Dow ...

There's a terrific short film somewhere inside Mark Moskowitz's feature-length documentary Stone Reader. Unfortunately, it's buried within a flabby 128-minute slog that feels like a rough draft nobody ...

This compelling 2002 documentary by Mark Moskowitz, an avid fiction reader who makes a living shooting political commercials, is a kind of literary detective story, though paradoxically the piece of ...