Asian Educational Media Service
Presented by the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, one can search for materials (including audio cassettes, CD-ROMS, and videos) on this site by region/country, media type, subject, audience, and title. The site also provides a K-12 resource list, video guides, and film reviews.
Expanded Academic Index
Includes the International Index to Film Periodicals (1973+), International Index to Television Periodicals (1972+), Treasures from the Film Archives, and several other resources. Particularly good for international films.
FIAF International Filmarchive Database
Indexes articles in approximately 1500 scholarly and general interest periodicals in the humanities,
social sciences and sciences. Includes full text of some articles. Good for finding film reviews.
Film Review Annual
Contains reviews of full-length films released in major markets in the United States over the course of the year.
Also provides listings of major film awards, nominees and winners
Film Review Index
A two volume retrospective bibliography of articles and books on selected films. Provides citations to reviews, histories and critical commentary for over 7000 films.
Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe
Provides access to the full text of many newspapers and magazines. Good for recent releases' reviews and industry information. Search the Entertainment Stories source material section within General News Topics.
metacritic.com
Links to full text reviews of current movie releases, videos, DVDs, music, and video games.
MRQE - Movie Review Query Engine A movie review index with links to over 120,000 full-text reviews covering more than 17,000 films from international, national, and local newspapers, arts and entertainment journals, and other sources. In addition to the index, includes prepared lists of reviews in the following categories: recent releases in the U.S.; upcoming releases in the U.S.; top 10 at the U.S. box office; U.S. video releases for the current month; U.S. video releases from the previous month; AFI's 100 greatest American movies; most popular title (last week, previous day, past 12 hours, past 3 hours); most reviewed titles; Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999); Gene Siskel (1946-1999); the 1990s in review; 1999 in review; 1998 in review. Also includes links to related services such as the Internet movie database and online vendors.
New York Times
Full text, 1851-2003. Use the Advanced Search option and limit by Document Type, Review.
Video Librarian Online An electronic supplement to the print edition (available in Suzzallo Reference, Z692.V52 V52), this site provides film reviews, the latest film news, and a searchable database of reviews and distributors.
Created by: Glenda Pearson
Last modified: Friday August 28, 2009 (pearson)
Expanded Academic Index