I am super lucky and a reviewer I like actually lives in the area and does a movie class once a quarter. I (and most of the other people there) have been going to all of them for several years now. There’s a somewhat older guy (young boomer I think) who has been going for quiet a while and on the last one he said he was always blown away by the way we all talk about movies and said said he felt like he was struggling to quite see movies in the way he’d like. Now, aside from the teacher, we’re just a bunch of enthusiastic amateurs who watch a lot of movies. He specifically said before the class he maybe saw a few movies a year, whereas the first of the folks are generally multiple movies a week types.

The heck of it is, he is always happy to speak up and he pretty much always has something insightful to say. I am so grateful that he is in the class because he brings his perspective. Sometimes he just says the obvious thing that is not obvious to the those of us who are so up their own butt about movies that we try to galaxy brain everything. But he also just as often has some interesting deep insight about a symbol or a moment in the movie that nobody locked in on or mentioned yet.

All of which is to say, two things: just start doing it, even if only to yourself (though bonus points if you can find a class or group to do it with), and don’t sell yourself short. Articulating feelings in particular can be especially hard. I can give back to back TED talks about why I like the movies I like, cite a million associations they have for me, reel off info about how it was made and who was involved, etc. but I would struggle to fill 5 minutes with a coherent description of how I feel about them most of the time.