FILM CRITICISM

MAC 417

LANRE AMODU
@olanreamodu.com
 Objectives

• Explain what film criticism is

• Describe the evolutionary phases of
film development
• Critique films based narrative
elements
• Critique films based on stylistic
elements
 Introduction

What is Film Criticism?

Film criticism is the analysis and
evaluation of films and the film
medium.

It is the comparison, analysis,

interpretation, and/or evaluation of
films
 Types of Film Criticism

Journalistic criticism: appears regularly in

newspapers, magazines and other popular mass-
media outlets

Academic criticism: done by film scholars who are

informed by film theory and are published in
academic journals. It is more likely to analyse the
film and its place within the history of its genre, or
the whole of film history