What is the purpose of a magazine film review

There are many purposes of a film review in a magazine. Firstly it provides the necessary information that consumers of interest to the film, would get an insight to the film and when it will be released. Of course different magazines would vary in depth of the synopsis for example a well known film review magazine is 'Empire'. 

  

 Empire is well known for adding less harsh critics to the films they review, furthermore they tend to use less textual columns than other review magazines as they keep it to a perfect brief that does not bore the consumer, it engages them more alongside being more accessible. They also tend to add more pictures and larger text just making it generally more appealing to the public. A competitor magazine called 'Total Film' also has a similar layout to 'Empire' as it is more accessible to a wider genre of the public. This is a example of Empires review about 'Avatar' just showing the layout they mostly use. 

 

 Secondly Magazine reviews tend to tell you about the plot of the film, one magazine that is renown for giving to much away is 'Sight & Sound' its one of the more least appealing film review magazines as the textual columns are much more than usual with a more formal look.

Finally magazine reviews also advertise other pieces of information alongside giving the film a rating out of 5 stars, they tend to be unbiased unless the magazine is from a cinema showing the film.