What Is A Film Review?

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory.
Many people use film reviews to create a judgement, or back up their own opinions. Others use film reviews to decide what they're best of watching at Orange Wednesdays. However, all film reviews inform the reader a little about the film and its plot, and more importantly a biased judgement on whether it is worth going to see!
Some magazines are dedicated to film reviews such as Empire Magazine, and Total Film Magazine. Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Consumer Media. From the first issue in July 1989, the magazine was edited by Barry McIlheney and published by Emap. Bauer purchased Emap Consumer Media in early 2008. It is the biggest selling film magazine in Britain, and is also published in Australia, Turkey and Russia. In common with most British film magazines, Empire is populist in both approach and coverage unlike less irreverent and more 'serious' magazines such as Sight and Sound. It reviews both mainstream films and art films, but feature articles concentrate on the former. Our own film review could feature in Empire magazine as their is an interest in arthouse films, however I don't think this would be the most relevant magazine for our films review to be published in.
Total Film, published by Future Publishing, is the United Kingdom's second best-selling film magazine. It offers film and DVD news, reviews, and features. The magazine was launched in 1997 and is published every four weeks. Each month, TF provides a range of features, from full-length interviews, with established and up-and-coming actors and directors, to major film previews, from Top 100 lists to retrospective pieces — all illustrated with film stills and profile shots. All issues contain The Total Film Interview — an in-depth chat with a celebrated actor or director, along with a critique of their body of work and a rating of each major film to date. I feel our own film could feature in this magazine as their is a strong focus on up and coming productions.
As well as these two leading film review magazines there is also many independant reviews, as well as those in newspapers and gossip magazine, as well as on blogs and other parts of the internet.