3 Tools to Help You Write a Great Movie Review

by Daniela McVicker

You’d be surprised, but writing a movie review can be a daunting task. Not only you will need to research the movie itself, but you will also have to study the story and the intention behind it. And if a movie is a screen adaptation of a book, you’d also need to analyze the similarities and differences between the two, and whether these differences significantly impacted the plot of the movie. 

Just from the looks of it, writing a great movie review can take you hours or even days. Luckily, there are a few steps of writing a movie review that you can get helped with, thanks to the abundance of different online tools. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at 4 tools that can help you in different stages of writing a great movie review. 

1. SEO Tools

Your more review can be as great as it’s going to get, but if it’s not optimized for the search engines, it’s likely that it will get lost in the myriad of similar reviews. 

That is why it is important to do keyword research before you start writing your movie review, so you could seamlessly incorporate the keywords in your text and make them sound natural. 

What are the best free keyword research tools for movie review writers?

• WordStream Free Keyword Finder – this tool requires you to enter a keyword or a URL, choose your country, and browse keywords according to the industry. 

• Ubersuggest – this tool also allows you to search for keywords for your movie review based on the country where your target audience is located. Here, you can also enter your competitor’s domain to find better keywords.  However, if you want to add more features and make your keyword research broader, you need to sign up with your email. 

• KeywordTool.io – with this tool, you can not only search for keywords on Google, but other search engines like Bing, as well as Amazon and different social media platforms, including YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. 

• Answer the Public – here you can search for keywords based on the location and language that your target audience speaks. The keywords are visualized in the form of a diagram based on different questions in Google search that involve this keyword. 

In the majority of these tools, you’ll get information about keyword competition. Try to aim for keywords with medium or low competition to help Google rank your movie review higher.

2. Headline Generators

How hard could it be?

You just type in “The Pacifier: Movie Review” and you have a ready-to-use headline. 

That’s true. However, among the abundance of similar movie reviews with the same title, yours is more likely to get lost. 

A great solution here is to use a headline generator, who will provide you with a few ready-to-use headlines, and if not, you’ll get a bunch of good ideas to get you started. 

• Semrush Isaac Newton Title Generator – this tool allows you to generate a title with two keywords and more with one click. 

• Hubspot Blog Topic Generator – this tool requires you to enter the minimum of 4 nouns to get the idea where your title is heading to. As a result, you get more than a dozen headline ideas for your movie review.

• FatJoe Blog Post Headline Generator – this tool also works well for generating headlines for movie reviews. You can add the initial title of your review, and get 10 headline suggestions. For more headline ideas, this tool requires an email subscription. 

You can also browse for headline ideas by doing competitor research and websites that do reviews of companies with similar content. There, you may find things that your competitors’ headlines lack and add them to the title of your movie review.  

As for the automated headline generators, with the majority of these tools, the more keywords you add, the better. As a result, you can get more precise results. If you don’t see a headline that would fit your movie review well, you can still collect the ideas and use them in your original movie review headline. 

3. Proofreading Resources

A great movie review is not complete without thorough proofreading and editing. At the end of the day, how can you call your writing great if it speckles with grammatical and punctuation mistakes?

If earlier you’d need to proofread your text several times or even give someone your review to proofread, today there is an abundance of proofreading tools that can do the job for you in no time. 

Here are a few of our suggestions:

• Website Planet: Spell Checker

• Wrtiter.com Grammar Checker - This site makes grammar checks with no character limits and takes it a step further with the addition of helping users simplify their language for more precise writing, suggesting sentence breaks to improve readability, and checking for language redundancies.

• Grammarly – With this tool, you can not only proofread your text, but also set the tone, audience, and level of formality before you proofread it. The report is broken down into 4 categories – Correctness and Clarity are for free, but Engagement and Delivery are only available with a Premium subscription. 

• PaperRater – this free tool works well for proofreading movie reviews as well. You can also pick ‘movie review’ as a category to help the tool proofread your text according to its main purpose. The tool also has free plagiarism checker. 

• Hemingway App – one of the key aspects of writing a great movie review is its readability. The majority of proofreading tools focus on grammar or style, not paying much attention to the level of readability of the text. Hemingway App will do exactly that, helping you avoid wordiness in your movie review. 

Skipping editing and proofreading is one of the most common mistakes to avoid while writing a movie review. You risk posting the text that looks unprofessional and amateurish. 

We also recommend you to combine several tools. This will help you proofread your text more thoroughly. Reviewing the text several times yourself should also be an important step of your proofreading routine, as the machine won’t always do a good job ad assessing the style of your movie review. 

Wrapping Up

A truly great movie review requires a lot of research and analysis. It’s likely that you will spend hours or even days writing it, that’s why you might need some help if you start running out of ideas or losing concentration. 

Luckily, in the age of technology, you can delegate some of the tasks in your movie review writing routine to a few online tools. 

We selected the most essential tools to help you write a great movie review, optimize it for search engines, catch the reader’s attention with a great headline, and proofread your review to make it look spotless. 

Do you have more tools to suggest? Share them with us in the comments! 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Daniela McVicker is a freelance writer and blogger. She graduated from Durham University and has an MA in psychological science. Her passion is traveling and finding ways to enrich students’ learning experiences. You can check her last Grabmyessay review.