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Critical Review Help: How to Write a Movie Critique

A movie critique is a complete informative review of a movie. Writing a movie review is an art by itself. It requires one's understanding, patience and unbiased opinion about the movie. The main idea of a good movie critique is to give the readers information about the movie, so that they can determine whether to watch the movie, buy or rent it.
The writer needs to include in his/her movie critique details of what the movie is about, personal assessment of the success failure ratio, based on the evidence from the film. Therefore it is more than a film synopsis or other interesting publicity aspects of the film. For the writer, a movie critique is his/her opportunity to share his/her personal opinion about the film based on the pleasure, frustration, surprise or disappointment that the film offers.

First and Foremost, Watch the Movie that is to be Critiqued

The first step that one should take before writing a movie review is to watch the movie. A movie review would not be genuine if written without watching it. The writer needs to watch the film in a peaceful environment and make notes about the details of the film or even watch it a second time to focus more on the movie.

Make An Effort to Write an Unbiased Review

Movie reviewers give their opinion about the film. Care needs to be taken, as these reviews should be unbiased or impartial. It is better not to use superlative words like "extra-ordinary, excellent, worst" or the like. Opinions should be detailed and explained in a way that the reader is in a position of making their own opinion of the issue being liked or disliked. The reader should be able to determine if he/she would agree or disagree with the opinion. If readers find a movie reviewer with a similar taste and agree with the opinions of the movie reviewer, they develop a following and blindly go by the recommendations of the movie reviewer.

Identify Your Audience

The next important aspect about writing a movie critique is identifying your audience. One needs to know exactly who the target audience is for the movie critique. If it is being written for children then aspects to be highlighted would be different and also the standard of the language would be different when compared to other readers. Approach should be made as per the readers in order to keep them connected.

Maintain the Desirable Length

An ideal movie critique should not be less than three pages and more than five pages in length. It is desirable to give a sketch of the plot of the movie so that the reader knows what to expect in the film and has an idea of what the film is all about. It should only be an outline and not the entire movie scene by scene. Care should be taken not to reveal any essentials, surprises or twists in the plot or the end of the film. An attempt of recounting everything and penning it down will not only bore the reader but also frustrate the writer. One might state that something interesting happens in the movie without revealing what it is, to keep the readers excited about the film.

Throw Enough Light on the Actors in the Movie and Their Performances

Actors are an essential part of any movie critique owing to the fact that many watch movies just to see their favorite actors perform. Details about the actors, their roles and their performances have to be included in the movie review. A convenient way to introduce the actors in the movie critique is to address the character name and provide the actor's name in parenthesis next to the character name. It should be more of a plot and character aptness. One can use the actor's real name when describing about the actor's performance or special contribution towards the film. Since movie critique gives details only about the actor's role in the film, as a gesture of good journalism one should use the character name when describing the plot with respect to the character.

Discuss the Storyline and Structure in Detail

The structure of the film can be discussed next in the movie review, whether the story line was focused or not, whether it was a predictable plot like many other previous movies or had something new. The story line is the deciding factor of the movie to be a success or a failure and the opinion about the story line is the deciding factor whether to motivate the readers to watch the movie. Therefore the structure has to be detailed carefully.

Make Sure You include Your Opinion on the Important Aspects of the Movie Such as Direction, Screenplay and Music

The other essentials of a movie are screenplay, lights and music. Therefore the movie critique should include details about how the film was directed, any flaws in the screenplay, the effective or ineffective use of lights, background score and music. Again the writer's opinion about the above has to be what he feels personally and not other's opinions.

Below are few basic questions, finding answers to which might help one in writing a good movie critique.

  1. Is the film based on a true story, a book or an original idea? If the story is adapted from a true story or a book/novel, has the story maintained the sync with the original throughout the movie?
  2. Is the casting appropriate?
  3. What is the basic theme of the movie?
  4. Do the characters, story line and screenplay impart the theme of the movie?
  5. Are the locations appropriate?
  6. Is the music and background music appropriate as per the moods of the scenes?
  7. Are there any special characters?
  8. What are the highlights of the technology used in making the film?
  9. How effective or ineffective is the cinematography?
  10. How is the action sequence placed?
The list of such questions is not limited to the above ten. Once answers to such questions are included in the movie critique, one can be assured of writing details on all the essential aspects. Basically anything one can virtually think of or react to is valid enough to be included in the movie critique. The writer has to be careful about the tense being used; present tense has to be used when writing incidentally. Before publishing the critique one has to check, and recheck for any errors or mistakes.

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