Subject Expert
Ielleen Miller
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Contact:
Office: JFK Library, U02C
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Find Film Reviews
Online Resources
- MasterFILE Premier (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new windowCovers around 1,700 periodicals with lots of full text content. Very useful for finding film reviews in magazines (not in newspapers or scholarly journals). Type in the name of the film, and then in the box Document Type, choose Film Review.
- Rotten Tomatoes
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Portal to online film reviews from magazines, newspapers, and miscellaneous websites. To limit to reviews from major news outlets, click Top Critics. Does have some historical reviews from Variety, New York Times, and Time Magazine. - Metacritic
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Compiles reviews from critics and publications for films, games, TV, & music. - MRQE: Movie Review Query Engine
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Links to online film reviews, including sometimes historical reviews from Variety and New York Times.
Print Resources
The New York Times Film Reviews (Multiple volumes)Call Number: REF PN1995 .N4Print set located in the JFK Main Level Reference area. Contains reprinted reviews from the New York Times. For more recent films, have online back to 1980. NOTE: Hyperlink just goes to the catalog record, not the full text of the print index.
British Film Institute Film Classics (2 volumes)Call Number: REF PN1995 .B7315 2003Publication Date: 2003NOTE: Click on the URL to see a list of the films included. There are only 47!
Print set located in the JFK Main Level Reference area. This is a compendium of more than 50 monographs published by the British Film Institute since 1992. Each entry focuses on a single great film of world cinema, presenting an essay by a prominent critic, novelist, academic, or filmmaker. You will read Camille Paglia on The Birds, Richard Schickel on Double Indemnity, Salman Rushdie on The Wizard ofOz, and many more.- Film Review Index, 1882-1985 (2 volumes) by Call Number: REF PN1995 .F52Publication Date: 1986-1987Print index located in the JFK Main Level Reference area. Very useful for finding film reviews of classics written at the time the film was released.
