1. What questions.

What are you reviewing? The reader
What is it about?
What is the plot or storyline? A law student re-encounters his ex-lover in a trial he assists.
What is the theme?
What is the director's purpose?
What genre or classification does it fit? Drama
What is the tone? What is the point of view? What is the mood.

2. Who questions.

Who wrote, directed, or acted it? What else have they done? David Hare wrote the screenplay, Bernhard Schlink wrote the book wich the movie is based on and Stephen Daldry directed it.

Who are the main characters in the story? Michael Berg and Hanna Schmitz.
Who is the intended audience?
Who has said what about this?
Why?

3. Where and when questions.

When does the action take place? After world war II
Where does the action take place? In Germany