Are you not entertained?

How to break down a show or a movie the way the critics do. Aka, the world's shortest film-appreciation class

-  Urvee Modwel

Films aren't just Good or Bad; that binary is Ugly (See what we did there?). Yet, most viewers, even those who chomp through Netflix's entire AwardWinning Directors selection, tend to fall back on the vaguest phrases to express how they feel. "Amazing" means nothing. "Epic" doesn't mean what the internet thinks it means. Surely, there's a sharper takedown than "Well, that sucked".

Here's how to take a closer, critical view of a film or show, with help from film critic Sucharita Tyagi.

Begin at the end.