A film review is a piece of writing that's purpose is to deliver to your reader your opinion on a film. Throughout your review, your job is to evaluate the film and all of its pieces.
A film review is highly structured. It goes a little bit like this:
Before you start writing, a good thing to do is to check out some examples of what other people have written. So check out these ones below to give you some ideas about HOW to write a review. Look out, and keep a note of, how the author is putting their opinion across - what words are they using? What sentence starters are they employing? Interesting words?
The film that you review needs to be at NCEA Level 3 and appropriate for school (and if you are under 18, it cannot be R18). Some examples include:
But, to be fair, pretty much any film could be a goer, just check in with your teacher.
While you watch your film, you should take notes on:
Then use those notes to help you to draft up your review using the structure mentioned at the top of this page.