Film Review Research (EXTRA)

(THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED EARLIER)

I have been looking at film review layouts on the internet for some time now, and i have written a post about one of them. Now i want to look at the text in an article. I want to know how to write an article and have been looking at examples from The Guardian and Heat magazine to get contrasting reviews. This opening of an article on the new film 'I Love You Phillip Morris', gives an overview of what the film is about:

"Jim Carrey's rubbery, hyperreal face achieves a sheen of panic and desperate neediness in this stranger-than-fiction comedy drawn from real life. Steven Russell (Carrey) is a fraudster, a hypnotically plausible fantasist, and a formerly married ex-cop who comes out as a gay man, before finally getting sent to jail in Texas for insurance scams, and there finding the love of his life. This is the shy, young innocent Phillip Morris, nicely played by Ewan McGregor, who, like the rest of the world, trusts the exuberant and charming Steven implicitly. Morris himself tells his own story in a seductive, honeyed voiceover, rather like Reese Witherspoon's narration in Alexander Payne's Election." - This is what i aim to do in my article, giving an overview of what it is about and also mentionaing the actors and directors, as you can see Jim Carrey's name has been put in brackets.

"Is it about a con man's criminal career? Are we, the audience, supposed to trust Steven Russell, to take him at his own estimation of himself?

Not exactly, no. Even calling him a fraudster doesn't describe the character Carrey plays."- I like the way, in this extract from the article, the writer asks rhetorical questions...but then answers them anyway. It's like a conversation with himself, but mostly with the reader. I like this style of writing, and will most certainly try and use it in my article.