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Movie Reviews
INFOTRAC:
http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lehigh_main/
Citations, abstracts and some full text of movie reviews. (Choose
Expanded Academic ASAP.) Choose Keyword Search and enter film name;
citation will contain the words "movie review" in parentheses. Covers
1980 to the present.
LEXIS/NEXIS:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe
Choose News, then Art & Sports to search 'reviews' section by
title; or General News, and search by movie title (try adding 'and
reviews' to narrow it down). Coverage may extend back to mid 1980's
Contains full text of reviews from newpapers, magazines.
Internet Movie Database: http://us.imdb.com
Searchable web site for reviews, plot summaries, ratings, technical
info.
Metacritic Film:
http://www.metacritic.com/film/
Assembles reviews from different online news sources, with rankings.
Strongest for films available on VHS/DVD.
Movie
Review Query Engine: http://www.mrqe.com/
Indexes a good selection of movie-reviewing web sites. You won't find
major journals here, but you will find reviews and essays from a wide
variety of viewpoints.
New York Times Film Reviews: http://movies.nytimes.com/ref/movies/reviews/index.html
Search and read NYT film reviews back to 1983. Free registration required.
TV Guide, Motion
Picture Database: http://www.tvguide.com/movies/database/
According to the Librarian's Index to the Internet, these 40,000 or
more mostly upbeat reviews originally came from The Motion Picture
Guide by Cinebooks, and Ephraim Katz's Film Encyclopedia.
Movies.com: http://movies.go.com/
Search by title, personnel, etc. to get profiles of movies with
overview, sometimes photo gallery and other information. For relatively
recent movies, the site lists and attempts to link to movie reviews in
the Internet-equivalents of a number of print sources-- reviews are
categorized as positive, negative or mixed.
AllMovie Guide:
http://www.allmovie.com/
Searchable by movie name, theme or personnel. Data and plot synopsis
for all movies listed, reviews for some.
last updated 5/6/01