Thank you for sharing your thoughts @justinlaak. As a serious steemit movie reviewer myself - i am off course very interested in hearing opinions about reviewing in general.

Movies vs film(s): I have been struggling a bit with this one myself. Movies refers to the cinematic or theatrical presentation, the "moving pictures", while literally taken "film" refers to the physicality of the celluloid strip. A "film" is something thin and probably transparent. Now "movies" has an air of popcorn and cola about it, while "films" have a more Café Latte attitude i would say. So with myself being attracted more to the latter segment, i suppose i should call it "film(s)" consequently from now on :-)

I agree with the division into acts and it is a good standard way of dividing a film roughly. But not all are fit for it to well, and some are just too weird to fit at all. There is usually a start, setting up who, when, where and then a middle part that develops the plot and story, followed by an "ending" that rounds it off. Personally i think that the "second act" is usually the biggest part and what happens in the first and third usually are not that important or interesting. The best movies are those with a great big middle :-)

References to accents, famous actors, directors, philosophers and so on, can be of use, but should not be over done, as it makes you look pretentious, unless it is an essential part of the movie and would seem weird to omit.

Thats my 2 steem-cents :-)