Essays on Movie Review

The Truman Show is a metaphor for modern society, it focuses on the way the media manipulates reality. We are complicit in that manipulation and also victims of it. The film challenges us to critique the media and extricate ourselves from the “reality” it surrounds …

I haven’t laughed this hard at a movie in a long time. When I saw this movie in theater for the first time I came out with my face hurting I was laughing so much. Everything about this movie just clicked. Perfect cast with great …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

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, …

Through out the years we have seen director Nick Cassavetes produce amazing masterpieces and tear jerking films that ignite every feeling you wouldn’t think could be possible to feel all at once. Films such as The Note Book, a love warming but also heart breaking …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

“Gladiator” is a movie meant to be remembered for many years to come. It is an actionpacked; historical, tragic, emotional, vengeful, moral, amazing, exciting, breath-taking, and thrilling ride into the era of the Roman Empire. Maximus was the most honorable, respected, and skilled general Rome …

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) …

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 …

Michel Gondry’s groundbreaking film, “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” presents a mesmerizing blend of romance, science fiction, and psychological introspection. Within this innovative narrative framework, the character of Clementine Kruczynski, portrayed by Kate Winslet, emerges as a complex, multi-faceted entity whose exploration invites profound …

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 …

Nurul Hazwani Bt Hatta M12L THE OTHERS Movie Review The Others is one of the psychological horror movies that impress me with its good story plot and suspense elements. It was written, directed and scored by Spanish director Alejandro Amenabar, starring Nicole Kidman and Christopher …

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 …

90 minutes worth of seductive Jessica Alba parading around wearing nothing more than just knickers and bra, one might think they were in for an enjoyable ride. My dear friend, how very wrong you are! As we watch Honey progress from club dancer to music …

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 …

The movie Coach Carter is based on a true story about Ken Carter, a man who is asked to coach the basketball team at Richmond High School, a public school in a poor neighborhood of California where he also played and was a star player. …

Romeo + Juliet Film review The film “Romeo + Juliet” was released in 1996, with Baz Luhrman as director. This is one of the most famous love plays written by Shakespeare, screenplay was by Craig Pearce. Romeo and Juliet is a film about forbidden love …

In the movie, The Education of Little Tree, the young boy learns many of life”s most important lessons. Three of the lessons that I feel are most important are; “The Way”, how to learn from ones mistakes, and finding your secret place. In the personal …

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 …

The “Lord of the Flies” film, which I am studying, was made in the 1960s. The director of this film made it in black and white for effect. In my essay I will be focusing on how the director’s use of pictures and sounds help …

Casablanca: A Reflection of American Values In an age where the world was in turmoil, where terrible, imperialistic powers sought to control it, the people needed a call-to-arms to give them a reason to fight. Under the backdrop of a romantic story of lost love, …