2. Important Aspects to a Movie Review
● Introduction: Include the name of the movie/documentary, its release date, and background
information.
● Summary: Provide a brief overview of the story.
● Analysis of the events: Analyze the plot and important events like action, climax.
● Creative elements: Describe the characters, dialogues, camera work, costumes, use of
colors, genre, tone, symbols, or anything that adds to or misses from the overall story.
● Opinion: Support your opinion with facts and examples from the story
● Conclusion: Announce whether the filmmaker succeeded in his/her goal, paraphrase your
evidence. Also, explain how the film helped in developing a deeper understanding of the
course topic.
3. Good Vocabulary/Phrases to Include in your
Reviews
● Scene/ Scenery/ Backdrop
● Imagery/ Depiction
● The Climax
● Dialogue
● In my opinion/ I feel that
● In conclusion/ With all of that being said…
● It seems the director's intention was...
4. Movie Plot 1
Banker Andy Dufresne is taken to jail because of the murder of his wife and her
lover, and sentenced to life imprisonment at Shawshank prison, a very tough
place with little hope. Life seems to have taken a turn for the worse, but fortunately
Andy befriends some of the other inmates, in particular a character known only as
Red. Over time Andy finds ways to live out life the best way that one can in a
prison, leaving a message for all that while the body may be locked away in a cell,
the spirit can never be truly imprisoned. He eventually is able to escape the prison
and leaves a note for his friend Red, telling him where to meet him when he is
released from prison.
7. Movie 2
This film views the mob lives of three major figures in the 1960's and 70's New
York. Henry Hill is a local boy who turned himself into a gangster in a
neighborhood full of the roughest and toughest. Tommy DeVito is a purebred
gangster, who turns out to be Henry's best friend. Jimmy Conway puts the two of
them together, and runs some of the biggest hijacks and burglaries the town has
ever seen. After an extended jail sentence, Henry must sneak around the back of
the local mob boss, Paulie Cicero, to live the life of luxury he has always dreamed
of. In the end, the friends end up in a tough situation, and must do anything they
can to save each other, and stay alive.
