Books: “Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker” by David Mikics (2021)

Martin Scorsese once said, “Watching a Stanley Kubrick film is like gazing up at a mountain. You look up and wonder, how could anyone have climbed that high?”

In “Stanley Kubrick: American Filmmaker,” David Mikics dutifully examines the Kubrick oeuvre—which is a surprisingly small 12 or so films over a 45-year period. But love them or hate them, people r…