There’s simply no other way to put it: Movies are simply the best and I believe the art of film is singlehandedly the most important aspect of a culture and bringing that culture together. One of the most impactful movies I had ever seen was a little film called mother! directed by Darren Aronofsky and stars Jennifer Lawerence and Javier Bardem. The movie tells the story of a couple, who live in the middle of nowhere, start having random guests show up at their house and terrible things start to arise.
I won’t go into spoiler territory, but what the movie was covering and the execution of it really made an impact on my life, and after seeing it last September, I have perceived the world a little differently. All I will say is that for a person who was struggling with faith/religion, this movie hit me right in the face like a sledgehammer. The feeling of anger, stress, violence, and hostility that one can feel is heavily featured in this movie, so much that it legitimately made me cry, not because I was sad but because I was deeply affected.
The way I see “how can film criticism impact humanity in a positive way?” I wouldn’t look at mother as the best example, but the three movies that come to mind are It’s a Wonderful Life, Life of Pi, and The Grey All three of these movies are RADICALLY different from each other, but if there’s one thing that all of them have in common is that are riddled with a strong emphasis for having empathy. 
Their sole purpose is to put bodies into seats, and as an inevitable result, they pander to the lowest common denominator, the base, unfiltered drives that cross all boundaries of race, creed, and religion.
It takes a powerful force to motivate the truly evil to change their ways. Fortunately for us, film – well-crafted, timely, and topical – can do just that by holding out the one possibility that terrifies corporate barons from ConAgra to Wal-Mart – clueless consumers will simply stop consuming.
There is no part of human creativity that film doesn’t touch. Music, images, text, speech, movement – nothing else can capture a mood, tell a story, or make a point faster and better than well-crafted film. Whether the result of many hands or only a few, a finished work corrals the efforts of every creative discipline yet conceived by mortal man and bundles it into a single, cohesive package. If it is art you seek, film will provide it, in every way imaginable.
Zane's take at the Cinema's 