Favorite Movie Reviews Samples For Students

Genre: Drama

Director: Orson Welles
Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
Objective Analysis: (give a few examples and provide text to support your examples)
1. Visual component (such as the art direction, camera angles and movement, cinematography, lighting, visual style, etc.):
Excellent use of Expressionist cinematography (canted angles), chiaroscuro lighting (stark contrast between black and white), low angles frequently used to make Kane seem larger than life, etc. Incredible use of deep focus, such as in the shot where Kane’s mother signs him away from his impoverished childhood (Kane in the background, same shot as adults in ...

Genre: Suspense

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: James Stewart, Kim Novak
Objective Analysis: (give a few examples and provide text to support your examples)
Visual component (such as the art direction, camera angles and movement, cinematography, lighting, visual style, etc.):
Hitchcock’s visual style is tense and scary, with great use of focus and top-down shots to get the feeling of Jimmy Stewart’s “vertigo.” The visual style of the opening sequence is dreamlike and unsettling, as is the dream sequence he has halfway through the movie. It really gives the feeling of losing your grip on reality.
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Genre: Horror

Director: Tobe Hooper
Stars: Marily Burns, Gunnar Hansen
Objective Analysis: (give a few examples and provide text to support your examples)
1. Visual component (such as the art direction, camera angles and movement, cinematography, lighting, visual style, etc.):
The film is very gritty, with a dark visual style, heavy use of shadows and more. The visual style is very stripped down and gory, with close-up camera angles to capture the horror.
2. Editing component (like the pacing, rhythm, transitions, etc.):
The pacing of the film is very tense, with situations and shots lingering ...

Genre: Mockumentary

Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Michael McKean, Christopher Guest, Harry Shearer
Objective Analysis: (give a few examples and provide text to support your examples)
1. Visual component (such as the art direction, camera angles and movement, cinematography, lighting, visual style, etc.):
Filmed like a documentary, Spinal Tap uses handheld camera and talking head interviews to make the documentary part feel real. The filmmaking is straightforward to let the actors improvise.
2. Editing component (like the pacing, rhythm, transitions, etc.):
The film is fast-paced, and uses flashbacks and “archival footage” to flash back to the ...

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010), Divine Comedy of Dante
It is a common knowledge that this movie is adapted from Dante Aligheri’ called The Divine Comedy. This movie is animated from the country of Japan. The story is really simple. Dante had apparently gone to the Crusades for spiritual nourishment. However, when he came back, he found that his wife, Beatrice had been slaughtered. The Dark One, the name Dante gives to grim the reaper, was nonetheless present to take to hell, the girl’s soul. Dante did not know the reason for this. He therefore followed the ...

The statement that 80 Million (2011), a Polish film directed by Waldemar Krzystek, is less a Political Drama than lively hybrid of action movie, heist thriller and dark comedy can be quite valid. On surface, it dealt with the formation of pro-democracy Solidarity in Poland of early 80s that in fact resisted the communist rule as the main subject. But, in its depiction it features solely on small heist angle planned and executed by the Solidarity leaders under the threat of secret police. It featured an incorporation of a few simple truths of the era to play out a ...

The 1970s was a decade of the public’s disappointment with the government and its policies, domestic and foreign, social and economic. It was the time of counterculture and various movements and protests that followed the example of the civil rights movement. The most important topics for the American people were the distrust for the government after the long-lasting Vietnam War that weakened not only the United States, whose economic situation was already devastating, but other countries, including Vietnam, Cambodia and their neighbors; the Watergate scandal that made Americans doubt that the county is in fact a democratic one, the state ...

Adapting a play to film involves a great deal of preparation and selective adaptation - there are unique and distinct differences in format that must be taken into consideration, including elements of style, look and performance. Of no exception is the film version of The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer; the movie deviates substantially from the source material, restaging and reinterpreting events to make them more palatable for a moviegoing audience. While these changes result in a substantially different story, it is nonetheless an admirable and spectacle-filled adaptation of the work that widens the ...

- “Earth” This film chronicles the life of several different animal families. There are four themes followed throughout the movie: seasonal patterns, climate change, individual animal stories and hunter/ hunted interactions.
- I chose to watch this documentary because I find this film to be a great example of the wonder of nature. The imagery throughout the film is awe inspiring. I was also interested in the message of conservation the film proposed.
- The central point of the film was the amazing animal life on planet Earth. The goal of the director was to promote conservation. The ...

‘Black Gold’ is film about the production of coffee in Ethiopia which is the known to be birthplace of coffee. It focuses on the plight of the Ethiopian workers who spend endless days and nights harvesting a crop that is their only source of income. The coffee industry is a multi billion industry that has seen the GDPs of International countries rise as the major exporters of this treasured commodity continue to remain impoverished (‘Black Gold’).

My take on the movie

With America being the country that consumes the most coffee in the world .This movie was an eye opener for the way the role of ...