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Find Films Reviews & News in Holman Library Databases

Find Reviews of films and comics in Library Databases:

Some databases allow you to search specifically for movie reviews.

Note: REVIEWS are NOT SCHOLARLY.

To do this:

In ProQuest, Alt-Press Watch, and Ethnic NewsWarch: On the "Advanced Search" page, scroll down to the "Document Type" option and select "Review"
In Academic Search Complete: Select "Entertainment Review" or "Film Review" as the Document Type.
In other databases look for filters or try typing in "review" as a keyword.
In the Holman Library One Search review is a source type you can refine by.

To find news & analysis of films and comics

Search in library databases and try limiting to newspapers and magazines.

Find Reviews Online

Rotten Tomatoes - Top 100 Movies of All TIme
Filmsite.org
Website containing interpretive & descriptive review, commentary, and background history.
RogerEbert.com
National Public Radio (NPR): Movie Reviews
BBC: Film Reviews
The Guardian: Film Reviews
Metacritic
Metacritic is a good source of television reviews, as well as film reviews.
MRQE
MRQE.com – the Movie Review Query Engine, founded in 1993 by Stewart M. Clamen, is the Internet’s largest database of movie reviews for over 100,000 titles. The continually growing site provides a searchable index of all published and available reviews, news, interviews, and other materials associated with specific movies. The unique combination of reviews, news, and user discussion—all accessed through MRQE’s search portal—allows any user to read and add to the Internet’s most comprehensive collection of opinion about film. MRQE.com is commonly abbreviated as MRQE and pronounced "marquee."

Library Databases

ProQuest Combined Databases This link opens in a new window Search millions of articles from ProQuest's electronic collections, including a digital newspaper archive, thousands of academic journals, and popular magazines like Newsweek and Rolling Stone.
Database Tutorial: ProQuest Advanced Search
Database Tutorial: How to Select & Cite Sources in ProQuest (and more)
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window Search more than 18,000 academic journals and magazines from a wide variety of disciplines including more than 7500 full text peer-reviewed journals.
Academic OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window Search over 17,000 scholarly journals and other authoritative sources covering biology, chemistry, criminal justice, economics, environmental sciences, history, marketing, political sciences, and psychology. Access articles from Nature, The Economist, New York Times, and thousands of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN as well as videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Database Tutorial: Academic OneFile Advanced Search(Gale)
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Search 2,000 full-text scholarly peer-reviewed journals in Science, Social Sciences, Humanities and Health Sciences
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window For viewpoints not covered by the mainstream press, a bilingual (English and Spanish) database of ethnic, minority and native newspapers, magazines and journals.
Alt-Press Watch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window A full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from alternative and independent presses. "Challenge mainstream media coverage" for new perspectives on your topics.

Holman Library One Search (Advanced Search)
Use the advanced search options to select source type (books, videos, scholarly peer-reviewed articles), online format, date ranges and more .
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Tips: How to Use the Holman Library One Search