The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Source- The Sun

Is the critic positive or negative?
* The critic is positive

• What angle does the article take? (what is it discussing?)
* It discusses the movie, it also relates to the love side of the movie.

• Which elements of the text do they like/dislike?
The element of the text that i liked is where at the end of teh review they had a little summary where they tell you what was the best line was, best charcter, family rating, rating out fo five... gives you a wider rangeof imformation.

• Do they make reference to any other texts?
No, it didnt make any reference to any tetxs.

• Who is the critic – could this affect their position?
There was no reference to the review, this makes the source more unrelible as where unable to tell you who wrote it.

• What is the original source (not Rotten Tomatoes) is this reliable?
It it from the sun online

• Could this affect the comments?
This could affect the comments beacuse its no relible therfore the information may not be accurate.

• Did you find the comments useful?
I didnt find the comments that useful beacuse the review wasnt long and didnt give out much imformation that an audince would llike to read.

• Have you learned anything from the critics’ comments?
The critics used stats, its told us the budget of the movie, which i didnt no.



Empire Magazine

Is the critic positive or negative?
The critic was not baised it gave postivie and negatives reviews as it shows other peoples opionions on the movie. however more of it was positive.

• What angle does the article take? (what is it discussing?)
The dicussion is mostly about the

• Which elements of the text do they like/dislike?
The elements of the text i liked was the way the review was set out, it gave a good indepth knowledge of each scene properly .

• Do they make reference to any other texts?
Yes, it did it compared Button to Forrest Gump, also spoke about the film Benjamin Button was perhaps most resembles to Titanic.

• Who is the critic – could this affect their position?
lan Freer is the reviewer, this make sthe source more reliable as it has the name of the crtic and also say that its is one of the "top critics"

• What is the original source (not Rotten Tomatoes) is this reliable?
The source is from Empire Magazine, this is realible as it had alot to say about the movie itself

• Could this affect the comments?

• Did you find the comments useful?

• Have you learned anything from the critics’ comments?