Library Guides: Draft of Finding Book and Film Reviews: Film Reviews

Discover@MU

Discover@MU
Search engine for library materials including books and articles. You will be prompted to sign in with your MU user name and password before you can enter a search. See directions below for locating film reviews.

How to find film reviews in Discover@MU and other EBSCO databases

Enter the title of the film and click search. Use quotation marks to search a phrase, e.g. "black panther"
Check off Reviews in the left column of the search results page. *If you don't see this check box, click the Show More options in the Filter by Format category.
Also check off Academic (Peer Reviewed) Journals if you only want reviews from scholarly publications.

Databases

Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than an abundance of journals and covers extensive academic disciplines and provides comprehensive content, including PDF back-files, videos, and searchable cited references.
Contains 4,600 journals, including full text for nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles.

Date Coverage:Varies; primarily 1970s-present with some titles covering earlier dates

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Art Full Text
An art research database containing full-text art journals, books, periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins published primarily in the U.S. and Europe. It covers art history, design, as well as photography, film and architecture.
Date Coverage: 1984-date

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FIAF
Indexes film and television literature.
Free account can be created for personalization.
Date Coverage: 1972-date
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Searchable full-image of the Chicago Defender (1909-2010), Chicago Tribune (1849-1999), Los Angeles Times (1881-2000), St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1874-2003), New York Times (1851-2020), Wall Street Journal (1889-2012) and the Washington Post (1877-2007).
Reader's Guide Retrospective 1890-1982
Contains comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.
Date Coverage: 1890-1982

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Newspapers

Click on the title for more information about date coverage and available formats.

New York Times Movie Reviews
A resource from the New York Times. Most useful for finding reviews for modern movies.
Variety
Coverage 1994-Present.

Web resources

Internet Movie Database-IMDB
IMDB is a free online database of information about films. View external reviews from critics by selecting the link for Critic Reviews in the Reviews section for each film.
Rotten Tomatoes
Provides summaries of film reviews by calculating the proportion of positive reviews in comparison to negative reviews to gauge its "freshness". Many of the reviews come from major media outlets.
Metacritic
Provides access to critical reviews from a variety of sources and grades each film by combining scores from individual critics.
Movie Review Query Engine
MRQE collects reviews, news, interviews, movie blogs, and other material associated with specific movies.