Essays on Movie Review

From its gripping start to its touching finish, this high-grossing blockbuster film is the film everybody has been eagerly waiting for. The third big-screen adaptation of Richard Matheson’s “I Am Legend” novel (1954) this box office hit is sure to have you gripping your seat …

aI always enjoy watching a documentary. It makes me to discover a new world. Especially logically well-developed documentaries give me a new stream of thoughts and allows me to discover another way to look at the world. The movie Man on Wire gave me this …

Tens of thousands of movies have been made in this country. But not many have had as much talk around it as Marvel’s Black Panther. Black Panther was written and directed by Ryan Coogler, released on February 16, 2018 it was an instant hit with …

The entire “you can’t start a fire without a spark” moment in banking came with Lewis Ranieri unveiled his idea for revolutionizing the bond market, what’s portrayed in the movie as being “comatose”. He had created the mortgage-backed security for the housing market, which then …

Citizen Kane is often viewed as one of the best films ever made. The film contains many remarkable scenes and cinematic techniques as well as innovations. Within this well-known film, Orson Welles portrays many stylistic features and fundamentals of cinematography. This partly because of how …

Every epic hero has certain heroic characteristics, and have been challenged and pushed to the extremes. “Black Panther” is a superhero movie that broke box office sales. It tells a story of the challenges of T’Challa trying to take his rightful place as king. T’Challa, …

Rohana and Rohani experiences were attributed by their father and their step-mother. There is a main locus of causality attributing to their experiences. The two sisters ran off home as the father was being abusive, mainly towards Rohani where she was bald by him and …

Memento is an extremely unique ‘film noir’ drama directed by Christopher Nolan, famous for his recent re-birth of the Batman series and currently at the helm of the long awaited ‘The Dark Knight’. Most of his films are difficult to put into a set genre, …

Normal is a spectacular movie which encompassed both a war and unity of emotions, standards, and ideologies. It showcased the play of sexuality, understanding, anger, transformation, ostracism, and most especially, love, depicted in the lives of the characters that compose the film. How all of …

1/8/12 Period 6 The Young Victoria Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee Produced by Martin Scorsese, Graham King, and Sarah Ferguson Production date: December 18, 2009 Movie Length: 105 minutes In a gripping romantic tale, The Young Victoria is a movie based on the turbulent first years …

Finding Forrester The film, “finding Forrester”, was a good quality film, with a great theme and moral lesson. The film has two main characters, Jamal Wallace and William Forrester. Jamal Wallace is a talented 16-years old African American basketball player in Bronx, New York, whose …

Movies such as Chicago, Moulin Rouge, and Singin’ in the Rain are part of a file genre that places emphasis on music, dance, and song.  This genre is known as the Musical.  The power of the songs in Musicals explains why many people who have …

Movie Review Essay “Inception” is a 2010 science fiction summer blockbuster filmed in various locations, such as Tokyo, France, Los Angeles, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The box office hit was directed by London-born Christopher Jonathan James Nolan, who is well-known for the cult classic, …

In 2018, Ryan Coogler directed on of the most sensational and inspiring Marvel movies I have ever seen, “Black Panther”. From the incredible cast to the costumes to the effects, everything about this movie is able to hold your attention from beginning to end. This …

Air Force one is movie released way back in 1997. It is about how a president was able to save himself, family, and allies from the people who hijacked his plane. In the world of terrorism, the USA president, James Marshall portrayed by Harrison Ford, …

Everyone has heard the saying “girls will be girls and boys will be boys”. Clichés like these depict social norms in many communities. Social norms are defined as “established rules of behavior or standards of conduct” (Kendall 74). In the United States, these norms are …

HIV/AIDS is a curious acronym. HIV or Human Immunodeficiency Virus is commonly known to cause AIDS, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. The public has heard this for decades, even the acronym visually sets this theory as conclusively linked. But is the science settled or could this …

Becoming Insane? Or Simply Hearing a Story? Stranger Than Fiction, directed by Mark Forster, is an unusual movie. I personally liked the movie very much, but it was definitely out of the mainstream of movies today. The main character, Harold Krick (played by Will Ferrell) …

Is a biography/ drama HBO film. The movie Stalin Is about the life of Stalin from the time Lenin became ruler to when Stalin died. It shows the life and career of the leader of the Soviet union, Joseph Stalin. Stalin is portrayed as a …

A Film Review November 27, 2007 Title: American Gangster Genre: Gangster Writer: Steven Zaillian Director: Ridley Scott Date and Place of performance: November 21, 2007 at my house On November 21, 2007, I was home for break and watched an interesting-historical film titled American Gangster. …

Most modern romantic comedies all follow a very simple, but proven model that we all know, that we all can relate to, and that will continue to sell us tickets. Boy meets girl, boy falls in love with girl, and crazy things happen along the …

Sophia Sullivan FLM2009-630: The Art of Film M. Brown Melodrama Stella Dallas (1937) Dir. King Vidor. Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, John Boles, Anne Shirley, Barbara O’Neil, Alan Hale. MGM (DVD) This film follows our protagonist, Stella (Barbara Stanwyck) through her journey of courtship, marriage to loss. …

This movie tells us the story of a Pakistani migrant who experiments troubles finding a compromise between his integration and keeping his roots. Indeed, we understand his will to impose his family a strict Pakistani culture at the very beginning of the movie, when he …

The movie I choose to write my review on is not one of my all-time favorites movies but the person who the movie is based on has been huge interest to me since I heard his story. The movie is titled “Jobs”; it is based …

Brad Davies Sociology 11:00-12:15 a. m. MW 2/20/2010 Swanson Movie Paper 1) In the movie The Matrix, Keanu reeve stars as a character whose world is based on a futuristic reality. This fact plays the role to why this movie demonstrates social imagination. The basis …

JC Life of Pi: A Movie Review The movie “Life of Pi” is a story of survival. In order to survive, the protagonist, “Pi”, draws his inner strength from his spirituality and practicality. A scientist once said, [i]“A man, as a general rule, owes very …

Discuss some of the labor and living condition issue in this film In the film, Mexican miners were living under terrible situation. They had been treated inhumanly. Their living environments were extremely unhygienic, there was no fresh running water or appropriate place to dispose garbage. …

Marvel’s Black Panther received critical acclaim not only because of portrayal of a superhero’s journey but more so about the black cultures journey. Not only was the film a box office hit but it was dubbed as a cultural phenomenon. The movie celebrates the black …

Casablanca Film Review Hollywood shifted from an outspoken denial of any overt promotion of the U. S. involvement in the war to an active on-screen support of that involvement. The cast was very international, of all the principle and supporting actors in the film came …

How to Write a Movie Review Writing a movie review is a great way of expressing your opinion of a movie. The purpose of most movie reviews is to help the reader in determining whether they want to watch, rent or buy the movie. The …