"All I want to be is someone who makes people think. Whether they agree with me or not is not important. If I can make them think about theater and, by thinking, develop their tastes and increase their concern with the theater, that's all I care about."

– John Simon, theater critic

Like the book review writer, the art, movie and theater critic is helping the reader to decide how he or she will spend time and money. As theater critic John Simon states, the movie and theater columnist is also developing tastes. We would add to that job description the role of educator.

Read Adam Grossi's movie review which he wrote for his Advanced Placement Journalism class and which was published in Threshold 1999, his school's magazine for the arts and sciences.

He has skillfully reviewed more than one film of the year by grouping those of the same genre together. He has made use of the rhetorical strategy of comparison and contrast to structure his review. His examples, illustrate his points, educate the computer and technical novice as well as the avid computer artist and persuade us to at least take another look at his favored movie.