Q&A for How to Write a Critical Analysis

I would say give yourself at least five days. The first day you can spend researching and brainstorming. The next day, develop a really well-crafted thesis. After that, focus on your outline to put all the pieces of the puzzle together. From there, write your rough draft and revise it until you feel satisfied and ready to turn it in.

Begin by reading or examining the work you're going to be critiquing. Identify the argument or message the author or creator is trying to make. This is the first step of analyzing the work.

The critical analysis should be done in a review style but with a more critical inputs, such as the point of view of the original author of the statement as well as the point of view of the writers of the critical analysis. All the references should be quoted down in critical analysis.

Yes of course, as long as you mainly focus on what they/you could have improved on or what to work on.

The same way you critically analyze a literary text. But remember, try to balance the positive with the negative.

You should re-work your essay to include points from both sides. Otherwise you are leaving out important information from your analysis.

You can do it basically the same way as described in the article. Try to figure out what the filmmaker was trying to say with the film. Did the film's story have a moral? Did the filmmaker establish any themes or symbols? Were the characters themselves symbolic of anything? Did the film remind you of any other films you've seen, books you've read, etc. that might have served as inspiration for the filmmaker?

A critical appreciation tends to answer the questions that generate from the issue involved. And so, it should not be in a question-answer form except using the rhetorical question.