Stranger Than Fiction: Movie Review

1. I read a movie review of Stranger Than Fiction, written by James Berardinelli on reelviews.net. The review praises the unique premise, the acting, and the overall experience. Berardinelli starts out by stating their opinion of the film, that it did a lot of things will, and almost none poorly. After his opinion paragraph, he writes two paragraphs of the plot. He does not give away the ending, which I appreciated. Instead, he ended the description with the discovery of the theme. He then has a paragraph on the actors, and a final paragraph about the cinematic experience. This reviewer focused mainly on the acting and plot aspects while not touching cinematic aspects at all. This is written in a funny and casual tone, with humorous descriptions of parts of the plot. The reviewer rates the film as 3.5/4 and recommends it as "a welcome way to spent a chilly autumn evening".

2. I think that we should structure our quarterly movie review in a free and casual way to accomodate creativity. We should be given the options of our own for of review, be it posters, videos, written work, radio report, etc. We should not have a specific format, except for usual ideas of noting cinematic techniques, plot, actors, etc. I think that we should receive a lot of freedom, because our creativity and expression is the root of truly good understanding of what we're reviewing.

My annotated review is here: http://diigo.com/0sx9l

Have a lovely day!