Green River LibGuides: Film, Television, and Popular Culture Studies: Find Reviews (Film &amp; TV)

Selected Retrospective Review Sources

American Film Criticism: From the Beginnings to Citizen Kane: Reviews of Significant Films at the Time They First Appeared by Stanley Kauffmann
Call Number: 791.437 K21a

ISBN: 0871405571

Publication Date: 1972

Main Collection
British Film Institute Film Classics by Edward Buscombe; Rob White (editors)
Call Number: 791.43 B862 2003

ISBN: 1579583288

Available in Reference Collection--in-library use only
Magill's Survey of Cinema: Silent Films
Call Number: 791.43 M194ms

Reference Collection--in-library use only
Magill's Survey of Cinema: English Language Films
Call Number: 791.43 M194m

Reference Collection--in-library use only
Magill's Survey of Cinema: Foreign Language Films
Call Number: 791.43 M194mf

Reference Collection--in-library use only
The New York Times Film Reviews
Call Number: 791.435 N532n

ISBN: 0362-3688

6 volumes
Available in Reference Collection--in-library use only
The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made by Vincent Canby; Janet Maslin; New York Times Film Critics; Peter M. Nichols (Editor)
Call Number: 791.43 C214n 1999

ISBN: 0812930010

Publication Date: 1999

Available in Reference Collection--in-library use only

Some websites have a paywall that limits how many reviews you view for free online each month.

Use links to ProQuest, Academic Search Complete, and Gale Power Search on this page to access some of the same content.

AMIA
Cine Savant
Combustible Celluloid
Criterion Forum
Dark Horizons
DVD Beaver
Reviews of films available on DVD (especially international films that are unavailable in the US).
Entertainment Weekly: Film Reviews
Filmsite.org
Website containing interpretive & descriptive review, commentary, and background history.
indieWIRE
New York Times: Movie Reviews
PopMatters
"PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism and analysis...with the mission to educate as well as entertain, our scope is broadly cast on all things pop culture and...bridges academic and popular writing"

Below are some links to websites useful for finding 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."
metacritic
"The site assembles about thirty reviews per movie from publications around the U.S., with links to the full reviews. "We try to include every new release, including limited releases and films that appear at film festivals and are reviewed in at least 3 publications." The About Us page explains how scores for the movies are calculated."
Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes is a good source of film reviews. Pay attention to the source of reviews you choose to use!

Use the databases linked below to search for review articles.

Try limiting to movie or film review at document type where available.
Alternatively, type in the keyword phrase film review, movie review, or television (tv) review.

ProQuest Combined Databases
Full-text newspapers, magazines, and academic journals
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
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)
Scholarly journal, magazine, and newspaper articles covering a wide range of academic fields including 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.
JSTOR
Find in-depth research and analysis in JSTOR's full text archive of academic journals in all subjects.

Gale Literature
Search for literary work overviews and author biographies plus scholarly literary criticism and analysis of authors and their works - novels, short stories, poetry, and drama including Shakespeare plays.