Film Review Essays

Back to God’s Country: The Call for Equitable Treatment of All Living Beings

Back to God Country movie, fascinating animals command human beings’ full focus while negotiating the precarious web of life. Kay Armatage’s “Back to God’s Country” (1919) review examines the protagonist’s interactions with animals in the film. David Hartford directed the 1919 drama film Back to God’s Country. The film stars Canadian actress Nell Shipman, who plays the role of ... Read More

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Twelve Angry Men

Introduction The film Twelve Angry Men is a cinematic masterpiece featuring a compelling drama about the American judicial system. In the film, twelve people play the roles of jurors deciding a young man’s destiny on murder charges. The jurors’ passionate arguments demonstrate the nuances of interpersonal interaction, group dynamics, and persuasion. For this Honors Project, ... Read More

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The Wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming

“The Wizard of Oz” by Victor Fleming follows the life of Dorothy, a young woman from Kansas who is swept away by a tornado and taken to the magical Land of Oz. In her quest to return home, she comes across different characters who help her find her journey back to Kansas. These characters include ... Read More

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The Untouchables Film Review

The Untouchables film is a remarkable American criminality drama film released in 1987. The film was written and directed by David Mamet and Brian de Palma, respectively. The storyline behind the untouchable was constructed based on real-life historical events. The subject matter film, the unattainable, revolves around the US treasury agent Eliot Ness and his ... Read More

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Lack of Originality in the Film: Inception

Inception is a science fiction/action movie released on July 16th, 2010, directed by Christopher Nolan. The film follows the main protagonist, Dominick Cobb, a seasoned and powerful thief who can read minds. Especially capable of infiltrating the dreams of others when their mentality is at the most vulnerable stage, then stealing valuable secrets and information ... Read More

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Errol Morris’s Film, Mr. Death

Summary: Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr. is an Errol Morris film about a horrific subject, a man’s daily life who creates and repairs equipment to execute criminals. The mousy son of a prison worker, Fred Leuchter, is in high demand as a maker and fixer of execution equipment. Leuchter justifies ... Read More

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Film Transformation – Wonder

Wonder is a 2017 American drama film directed by Stephen Chbosky and written by Jack Thorne, Chbosky, and Stephen Conrad. The film was based on the 2012 novel Wonder by R.J. Palacio. The film followed the character August Pullman and was released on November 17, 2017. The boy, August “Auggie,” the main character in the ... Read More

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Film Review: Elysium

Introduction A dystopian science fiction film called Elysium was written, produced, and directed by Neill Blomkamp in 2013. The socioeconomic gap between classes has widened more than ever in the year 2154. The affluent and influential developed a new place to reside because Earth was overpopulated and dirty. Elysium’s space station has all the resources ... Read More

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Major Themes in the Film Dark Knight

Lee Smith, assisted by Nolan, edited the Dark Knight film. The Dark Knight develops characters that people come to care about. Perhaps, the film is entirely created with technical quality that attracts more people to watch. The Dark Knight is performed by various actors who illustrate both good and evil. For instance, Batman is good, ... Read More

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Harriet Hollywood Film

Introduction Harriet remains to be a flash et informative film. The film grabs a historical reality and takes it beyond the imagination of a canvas of old-fashioned stories of adventure. The movie attempts to cover all the other basics of a life lived b Tubman, not forgetting her escapades to Philadelphus in 1849. Besides, there ... Read More

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Black Swan Review

Swan Lake, a ballet performed by the New York City Ballet, is central to Black Swan (Aronofsky & Medavoy, 2010). Nina Sayers is a petite, bashful dancer who wishes to be the lead in “Swan Lake,” which requires her to play the white and black swans. But, to fully immerse herself in character and please ... Read More

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Film Review: 12 Angry Men

Setting and Overall Storyline of “12 Angry Men” The movie “12 Angry Men” tells the story of twelve angry men. These men are angry because they are bored. Also, some are angry because the Courtroom is hot. The movie starts in a Courtroom in New York where fourteen are charged to deliberate the fate of ... Read More

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City Lights Film Review

Introduction City Lights is a silent film written, produced, and directed by Charlie Chaplain and released in 1931. He also starred in the movie, which stars him as Chaplin Tramp, who gets to love a blind child and makes friends with an intoxicating millionaire. In the film, Tramp encounters the drunken millionaire as he tries ... Read More

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The Jazz Singer

The film is a redo of the 1927 AI Johnsons Jazz Singer, which is among the triumphant talking movies (Abbott, 2020). The film places its characters in a time capsule despite its story set in the present (1980). This movie seems to be confusing to other western films, which are meant to portray some virtuous ... Read More

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Tuesdays With Morrie Film Review

In this paper, we take up our film review to Tuesdays with Morrie. The book is fascinating; right from the title, why choose Tuesday with Morrie as the title of the movie? We find that this results from Morrie referring to how they used to meet up often on Tuesdays, and he says, “we’re Tuesday ... Read More

Pages: 4       Words: 950

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