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Academic Film Criticism
If you are looking for academic film criticism here are a few places to look.
1. Albertsons Library contains many books on film criticism. Search the library catalog and use MOTION PICTURE as one of your search terms. The catalog can be searched from this link: http://catalog.boisestate.edu/
2. The library database Communication & Mass Media Complete contains many articles on film and its relation to society and culture.
3. MLA International Bibliography : Contains academic film criticism often as it relates to literature.
Current Movie Reviews
Consult the resources below for film reviews
- National Newspapers Use the advanced search to limit to FILM REVIEWS
- Custom Newspapers Over 452 national, regional and local papers. Include: MOVIE, FILM, FILM REVIEWS, MOVIE REVIEWS as search terms to narrow search.
- Lexis Nexis Academic 1. Select the News category under the red Search tab 2. Enter the name of your movie in the first search box 3.Set the Select Source box to Book, Movie, Music, Play, and Video Reviews 4.Set the Specify Date box
Older Movie Reviews
- NY TIMES - Historical Contains the NY Times back to 1853. Limit DOCUMENT TYPE to REVIEW
- Los Angeles Times Historical Coverage 1881-1986. Limit to REVIEW in DOCUMENT TYPE - or use FILM REVIEW as search term.
- Variety Film Review (PRINT) -ref PN1993 .V36 The library owns 3 volumes - v.6(1938/1942),v.23(1993/1994)-v.24(1995/1996)
- The New York times Film Reviews (PRINT) Volumes: 1913/1931-1975/1976 + 1913/1968:index
Internet Movie Database
The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) is a free internet database of film information. Search for the movie you are interested. Look for the external reviews link from the menu on the left. This will link out to reviews of each film available across the internet.
Search from this link: http://www.imdb.com/
Movie Review Websites
- Movie Review Query Engine A search engine for movie reviews
- Rotton Tomatoes Over 7 million readers each month use RT globally as a dependable, objective resource for coverage of movies and DVD.
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