Movie Review Essay Examples and Topics

The article is about a thriller movie ‘Contratiempo – The Invisible Guest’, released in 2017, which is the story of a businessman, Adrian Doria, who found his girlfriend, Laura Vidal, lying dead on the floor when he regained his senses in a hotel room and…

Introduction Maleficent, a 2014 American fantasy movie directed by Robert Stromberg, is about the untold story of Disney’s most notorious villain from the classic Sleeping Beauty. Starring Angelina Jolie as the protagonist, the movie explores the elements that turn Maleficent from a kind-hearted fairy to…

Me before you is a drama and romance American film based on novel which written by Jojo Moyes 2012, it is about impossible love story between two different persons from various classes Louisa Clark and will Traynor which placed in a small city in England,…

The Searchers is one of those movies that leaves the spectators jaw dropped from the beginning to the end. There is no way to not appreciate this movie. This is a saga of cowboys, with beautiful and almost unbelievable photography, filmed at an astonishing location…

My Name is Khan broke global box office records as the largest grossing Bollywood movie worldwide in its opening weekend, including in the United States, Britain, Australia, and the Middle East, while in Mumbai itself. The film also made a critical splash internationally, receiving rave…

The monarchy was a huge part of the movie in the aspect that the army that Mulan went to was trained to prevent the Han dynasty from killing the emperor who is a monarch but of much larger kingdoms. Many argue that the emperor from…

I am reviewing the movie Shrek. Shrek is a movie that was released in 2001 and was directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. People misinterpret Shrek as being a bad person, which makes him not a people person. I picked out this movie because…

The Disney animated movie Tangled is a modern retelling of the original Rapunzel story with a musical element. Listed as one of Disney’s most popular movies, Tangled captures the audience with an adventure story involving a beautiful girl named Rapunzel with magical long hair alongside…

The Greatest Showman Plot Summary The plot of “The Greatest Showman” is quite predictable and simple, and at first, I decided to summarize it before you will read my review with detailed analysis. The movie starts when the young Phineas who saw himself being a…

In Mona Lisa Smile, professor Katherine Watson (played by Julia Roberts) feels about art and life, exactly how I feel about this film. “You don’t have to like it. But you must consider it.” Take any other approach and movie-goers risk missing a sharp, intriguing…

“Life is Like A Box of Chocolates” In the movie Forrest Gump, Forrest tells his whole life story through his eyes. He deals with some mean people picking on him because he’s different and doesn’t have as high of an IQ as most everyone else…

The Mask You Live In is a film that try to analyze the meaning of virility we have socially build and confined boys to, and in doing so, the plurality of the film pursues the illustrative mode to elaborate on this meaning and its contributing…

More and more modern films resort to geopolitical tricks to diversify the movie and increase the audience. This trend was maintained even back in the early 90s. So, the movie ‘Rocky IV’ released in 1985 from the Rocky series directed by Sylvester Stallone used parallel…

This story is about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for years, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The…

Abstract After watching The True Cost, the knowledge I have obtained is that it’s evident that the success of major clothing brands are fueled by low-level workers from developing countries. These workers are suffering at the expense of their employers and due to the low…

After watching The Birth of Nation, I couldn’t make my mind about how I feel about this movie. Although The Birth of Nation was made more that one hundred years ago it still has the power to both captivate and horrify the viewer. This movie…

Throughout time, cinema has always had the fascinating ability of connecting viewers to a story, while purposely obscuring the means by which it does so. This imperceptiveness of cinematic language has gradually evolved over time, as filmmakers are creating methods to showcase this art in…

The film The Truman Show, makes audiences more aware of modern problems surrounding mass media relating to mental illness by using a variety of film techniques. This is a parody film that touches on many aspects self-reflexivity, product placement, and the seemingly perfect suburban lifestyle,…

Throughout history, humankind all over the world at one time or another has looked up at the stars and wondered, “What’s out there? Is God real? What is the true purpose of life?” And more importantly, “How much of what they see are real or…

In this movie Bradley Cooper plays Pat Solatano. At the beginning of the movie, Pat is being released from a mental hospital after an eight month stay, and it is quite obvious that he has bipolar disorder. He was released into the care of his…

“Humans are social beings” so we find that “connecting with others is crucial” as this is “how we learn about how the world works” – Art Markman. In society, we have many connections and relationships with one another. Therefore, it is important for us to…

The movie,“Grease”, is one that contains no only a storyline but music, dancing, and so much more. Filmed by Randal Kleiser in 1978, it is one of the most known movies in the 21st-century. Some may say that Grease is a spin off of the…

Ethnic Notion is a documentary based on the origins and consequences of African American culture. It explains the deep-rooted stereotypes of African Americans from the 1820s to the Civil War period. This documentary explains the origin of the popular depictions of African American stereotypes such…

Looking back on watching Disney movies, the media make us imagine what it feels like to have a happily ever after. Growing up, Disney movies portray “happily ever after” as an achievement, how we need to fight for the ones we love in order to…

“Part of the journey is the end,” says Iron Man in the final instalment of the Marvel Avengers series. Avengers Endgame, a three hour long movie, is the ending to the immense avengers series including the ending to some of the most beloved characters. Though…

Avatar and Avengers Endgame are both popular Hollywood movies, which released in 2009 and 2019 respectively. Those amazing film technologies used in these two movies make them become two of my favorites film and also well worth seeing. Avatar is an American science fiction epic…

Introduction Over 17 million Asian or Asian-American people have classified themselves in the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau, yet this flourishing population has been rendered unseen and unapparent in Hollywood films. Today, only a handful of Asians invisibly comprise Hollywood’s leading roles. Since the endless beginning…

Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone While each movie introduced into society brings a new sense of reality, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone written by J. K. Rowling and directed by Chris Columbus brought a whole new world into the lives of millions. Not…

This premier episode of Stranger Things, “The Vanishing of Will Byers”, begins in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana. Taking place on November 6th, 1983, a running guy is trying to escape an unknown creature which winds up attacking him. At the same time, Will…

On a Saturday evening of October 2019. I’ve gone to an outdoor movie at Miller park in Chattanooga, TN. This was quite an experience because I’ve never been to one in the past. Hence, I was super excited also because of the free admission. The…

The Great Gatsby directed by Baz Luhrmann truly captured the essence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s book published in 1925. I personally believe this movie adaptation of the book visually illustrated the key symbols presented in the novel; for example Gatsby’s mansion, his car and the…

Introduction For this literature review, I will be analyzing the Netflix series “When They See Us,” and with support from research, I will discuss how the series depicted juvenile false confessions along with race as a secondary factor in effect. I will be also discussing…

Passion is the wind blowing in the sails, without sails, the boat can not run; Passion is the fuel of the rocket, without fuel, the rocket cannot fly to the blue sky. Life has taught us that inspiration can create immortal art and passion can…

Building family after such a life is difficult and it is tough to find a person who can accept them and love them despite everything and each of the ‘exonerated five’, except Wise, has accomplished it. Wise is still the only one who is not…

In the first episode of when they see us, we can see Korey Wise, Kevin Richardson, Antron Mcray, Yusef Salaam and Raymond Santana as everyday ordinary teenagers. It is a sad case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time when they each join a…

Stand and Deliver is a film based on real-life which from my understanding show us the reality that many immigrant students from the lower class must suffer, it also touches on how the community reject them and had played a significant role in forcing them…

In ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ Rachel Chu faces many adventures when she decides to accompany her longtime boyfriend, Nick Young, to a wedding in Singapore. She experiences a culture shock of her own upon discovering that Nick’s family is extremely wealthy. Due to his wealth, Nick…

What is the key to an all-around immense movie? All movies are immense in their own way, but some movies go beyond immense. Through its well-played dramatics, Characters craziness, and cultural diversity the producers of Crazy Rich Asians create a well-rounded movie that has all…

It has been 25 years since audiences from around the world have mainly seen an all Asian cast in a big film. With limited exposure to the big screen, Hollywood would typically “whitewash” the Asian characters by casting white actors in their roles. In certain…

Asian characters throughout cinema have been habitually stereotyped as meek, corner-dwelling folks with little to say. However, In several important ways, the 2018 film Crazy Rich Asians represents a breakthrough in popular culture. Most significantly, it is the first successful Hollywood film since The Joy…

In the movie Crazy Rich Asians, the theme is revealed through the use of mise-en-scene and editing. The major theme I was able to identify through the use of aesthetics is that no matter the situation one should always stand up for themselves and not…

Editors for films and editors for television programmes jobs differ however, the basic concept for both is for them to accumulate the footage of the film or scenes for the episode in a show and create the final cut. Their job entails altering plots, audio…

Casablanca, by Michael Curtiz 1942, Shows the sides of love and sacrifice in the context of World War Two. These themes are propagated by the selfless actions of Rick, a cynical night club owner, and Ilsa, who must suppress her love for Rick in order…

The Documentary Before the Flood go through this issue of climate change and global warming issue and how this climate change is affecting the Nature. They focus on ice, the sweeping views of earth, seeing the rushing waterfalls in the glaciers, and, massive land mines…

The documentary begins with a reflection about “The Garden of Earthly Delights” painted, by Bosch, which shows “a paradise that has been degraded an destroyed”. Climate change is a danger that has the potential to do that to our Earth. In the documentary, newly appointed…

It is 1985. It will be on weird summer of for the town of Hawkins, Indiana. On Wednesday, Netflix dropped the primary full-length trailer for this current summer’s exceptionally foreseen third season of Stranger Things. Furthermore, it appears our most loved gathering of bicycle riding,…

Stranger Things set in 1983 and focused on a group of children in the little Indiana town of Hawkins. Their quest for their companion ‘Will’ who disappears as he cycles home one night. The group of kid discovers Eleven, a nearly quiet young lady with…

Saving Private Ryan is an American War movie written by Robert Rodat and directed by Steven Spielberg. The movie sets on Omaha Beach as a part of the Normandy Invasion in World War II. Starring Tom Hanks as John H. Miller, captain of U.S. Army…

I must concede, this is the most incredibly vicious film I have ever observed. The film’s overly sensible depiction of men in fight left me and other individuals from the theater audience paralyzed. This is completely the best American war motion picture at any point…

The world you know today may not be the world your children and grandchildren will get to live and experience. Through out time color and life, itself begins to fade just by the simple fact that we don’t know how to take care of Earth….

Created by Matt and Ross Duffer, the science fiction Netflix Original Series, Stranger Things, is one of the most talked-about shows within the last three years. The first season began in July of 2016 and its current third season in July of 2019, Stranger Things…

It is often said that “The Godfather” is an ironic interpretation of the American Dream. The film is an obvious reflection of the immigrant experience in America. The film focuses on one of the darker aspects of this experience. Throughout history, there have been many…

Saving Private Ryan was first released September 11th 1998. It was directed by Steven Spielberg whose other famous films include Jaws Jurassic Park and Schindler’s List. The main stars of the film are Tom Hanks, Edward Burns, Barry Pepper and Matt Damon. The film won…

Hacksaw Ridge is an American war movie, directed by Mel Gibson and released in 2016. It is based on the life of the military medic Desmond Doss. Desmond grew up in a small village in Virginia. His father had fought in the first world war…

Some events, like losing a friend or a child, need little translation. Others, like what happens to Will Byers in Stranger Things, stand as analogies. Events like those should not happen, but they do, sometimes more often than any would like to admit. Though people…

The world as we experience it ourselves is constrained in its extension to the solitary viewpoint. In film, in any case, utilizing a similar setting with the utilization of a wide range of camera points and positions, creating shots that are arranged with fresh stable…

The plot of the movie Saving Private Ryan is soldiers are assigned to find Pvt. Ryan and bring him home. The Army Chief of search and rescue has ordered them on the mission for search and rescue, Ryan’s return will boost morale on the home…

The determination to find a silver lining in everything makes people unrealistic. This is true in Silver Linings Playbook. Impractical dreams lead to a skewed sense of reality. Furthermore, the recognition and acceptance of mistakes are vital to one’s success and personal development. In and…

Dunkirk, a movie released in 2017, is a film portraying the historical Battle of Dunkirk. This battle occurred in the year 1940 on a French beach. This beach was surrounded by Nazi Germans. This is evident as the movie shows flyers falling down from the…

Zombie apocalypse movies are movies in which characters survive in a destroyed society full of infected or cursed creatures who used to be humans. From this type of movie, the audience can easily feel many different feelings such as sadness, fear, thrill, comfort, and more….

After several decades since the production of Citizen Kane, it is considered as one of the most influential movies developed in the United States. Notably, the theory of film attests to the centrality of Kane’s stylistic invention instead of the originality of the narration. Particularly,…

Fences is a 2016 drama film starring and directed by Denzel Washington, based on the 1987 play written by August Wilson. The film follows a 53-year-old black man, Troy Maxson, in 1950s Pittsburgh who struggles to support his family as a waste collector. Instead of…

Rashomon is a famous Japanese film from the 1950’s about a man who dies after his wife was raped by a bandit (Module-7, Rashomon Lecture, 5:41). Point of view in the film is where the scenes are made so that the audience can view a…

In the movie Mona Lisa Smile, the main theme of the movie relates to Simone de Beauvoir thoughts about how women are stuck in immanence by men and society. A non-traditional woman name Katherine Watson, the university’s art history teacher tries to show the young…

Paz Vega is a brilliant Spanish actress, best known for her outstanding performance in the 2004 American romantic comedy film, Spanglish. She is undoubtedly one of the few Spanish actresses currently making waves in the Hollywood industry. In addition to her acting prowess, Paz is…

As the son of celebrity movie director Stephen Gyllenhaal and his wife Naomi Foner – a famed writer cum producer, it would not come as a surprise that Jake Gyllenhaal has been active in entertainment since childhood. Jake was featured as a child actor on…

In the film, ‘Dead Poets Society’, a discourse conveyed by entertainer Robin Williams alluded to as ‘Hold onto the Day’ directions investigation in light of its impact and viable conveyance. In his discourse to a class of young men in an all-kid tuition based school,…

The film selected for this topic essay is “Fences,’ directed by Denzel Washington and based on August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The plot takes place in the 1950s in Pittsburgh, where the characters are part of the Afro American community, rising…

The movie Mulan is a Disney animated film released in 1998, which portrays a Chinese girl of the same name who disguises herself as a male soldier named “Ping” in order to take her father’s place in the war. While tradition demands that she becomes…

The James Cameron movie, Avatar, is a cinematic jewel that uses brilliant 3D technology to captivate the audience by not only pushing pictorial boundaries but by also displaying underlying themes of militarism and the power of nature. This film will forever be known for creating…

Introduction In the entertainment world, there are different types of film and genre that are breathtaking. No matter the differences of the movies c, there’s one element that ties them all together. A film is noticed with the aspects of Mise-en-scene by following an order…

Over the years, our society has evolved with the first silent films, and how we have evolved the different types of genres. Different types of films have a rebellious outlaw and an official hero. Robert B. Ray’s article The Thematic Paradigm explains the difference between…

In the movie Citizen Kane by Director Orsen Welles the mise en scene was integrated in the movies very we. Mis-en-scene refers to everything present in a filmed image – sets, scenery, actors, movement, props, lighting, costumes, etc. In one of the scenes of Citizen…

In Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller Black Swan (2010), Nina Sayers is a female in her mid to late twenties with a career as a ballerina in a renowned New York City Ballet company. The film portrays Nina Sayers in her efforts to achieve perfection through…

The movie Fences captures the turbulent relationship between Cory and Troy. The most notable scene that captures this relationship is, act two scene four. Cory brings up Troys failing to him as a father and as a husband. This commotion is intensified through emotive language…

His Girl Friday, directed by Howard Hanks, is an inspirational and revolutionary film which was ahead of its time. The film broke the gender stereotype that women in the 1940’s were expected to live a domesticated life, and therefore did not need to work. From…

Adam Sandler may have made a career out of playing goofballs but there is nothing funny about his bottom line. The comedic superstar is one of the highest grossing actors in Hollywood. He also remains one of the highest paid despite his several decades in…

The Divergent Series is a science-fi action film that has three installments, Divergent,  Insurgent and Allegiant. The trilogy was adopted from the various science fiction novel The Divergent Series as written by Veronica Roth. In the trilogy, five key characters made the lead and supporting appearances…

Do both works have the same characters? Which are different? For example, in the film, the commoner to whom the tale of the murder is told. If the main characters are the same, do they share the same traits? For example, the woodcutter. Akutogwa’s stories;…

The Dallas Buyers Club is a movie of Woodroof, an electrician, and the Casanova cowboy who contracted AIDS in the 1980s. He found out that he has only 30 days to live refused to accept the reality and began to try all forms of treatments…