Students Can Be Critical

I was wondering what you think of this idea:

Students can be critical (mostly to each other) so let's allow them be critical. I once took a class in high school that was called Film Critiquing. We had to watch films and write critiques about them. It helped me be more analytical and use higher thinking skills. It was a lot of fun and I learned a lot at the same time. Consequently, it has become a hobby. My husband and I love watching films with an analytical perspective. We tear them apart, picking out what we like and don't like, but mostly focusing on how it is directed or the predictability of the screenplay.

I think our upper elementary students would love doing this as a writing assignment. We would have to make up rubrics, but that is pretty easy using Rubistar One rubric would be used by the students to evaluate the film and another would be applied to their writing assignment. The students could even come up with their own rubrics for evaluating the films, since that would require using higher thinking skills.