About the book: 2018 / Anton Dolin is a journalist, radio host, film reviewer on the TV program "Evening Urgant" and editor-in-chief of the most authoritative publication about cinema, "The Art of Cinema." In the book “Shades of Russian,” perhaps the most sought-after and influential film critic in the country collected his observations of Russian cinema in recent years. Modestly called “shades,” we see a mosaic of modern reality, in which cinema is an integral part and reflection of the entire palette of social moods. For those who condemn, love, despise, don’t understand, want to figure it out, Dolin will reveal new colors in the black and white “It’s Hard to Be a God”, tell why “Loveless” is a film not about monsters, but about us, why the classic Sergei Solovyov - the youngest director, as well as what and in whom “Matilda” stirred».