Subject Guides: Film &amp; Media Arts: Reviews

Film Reviews Online

Films in Review
A joint project between BYU's Department of Theatre & Media Arts and the Harold B. Lee Library, this database features thoughtful critical responses to a wide range of film productions. We are interested in both invention and documentation, the old and the new, the near and the far. We are interested in short and long, easy and hard, ubiquitous and obscure. The contemplation of all these things together makes for a database that suggests film’s many times and places, that reflects wide ranges of cinematic possibility, both in the production and the receiving. In this we seek to contribute to readers’ cinematic and cultural awareness, as well as to their cinematic and cultural sensitivity.

American Film Institute Catalog This link opens in a new window
AFI Catalog is the premier national filmography and is produced in collaboration with the American Film Institute. It documents more than 46,000 American films from 1893-1958 and 1961-1970. Extensive plot summaries, full production and cast information, and notes are provide. AFI Catalog can be searched in conjunction with Film Index International through Film Indexes Online.
Art & Architecture Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Art Source covers a broad range of related subjects, from fine, decorative and commercial art, to various areas of architecture and architectural design. Providing over 600 full-text journals, more than 220 full-text books, and a collection of over 63,0000 images, it is designed for use by a diverse audience, including art scholars, artists, designers, students and general researchers.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish) and comprehensive full text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses. This current database begins its coverage in 1990.
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
This essential tool for film studies, created by the International Federation of Film Archives, indexes more than 300,000 articles from 300 of the world's foremost academic and popular film journals, dating from 1972 onward. The database also incorporates the International Index to TV Periodicals (1979 - 1998); Treasures from the Film Archives, which identifies silent film holdings in archives around the world, and the International Directory of Film/TV Documentation Collections.
Humanities Source (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
The collection includes full text for more than 1,400 journals, with citations to over 3.5 million articles, including book reviews. Coverage in Humanities Source includes worldwide content pertaining to literary, scholarly and creative thought.
MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
MLA International Bibliography offers a detailed bibliography of journal articles, books, book chapters and dissertations about literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Produced by the Modern Language Association (MLA), the electronic version of the bibliography dates back to the 1920s and contains over 1.8 million citations from more than 4,400 journals & series, and 1,000 book publishers.
New York Times Archive (1851-2006) This link opens in a new window
Performing Arts Periodicals (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window Indexes and abstracts more than 140 international periodicals covering nearly all aspects of the world of performing arts. Formerly International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)
Readers' Guide Retrospective (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window 1890-1982. Indexes the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States. Subjects covered include archaeology, astronomy, biographies, business, education, environment, fine arts, foreign affairs, history, journalism, literature, medicine, news, popular culture, religion, science, and travel.

Film Reviews in Print

These are located in the Humanities Reference area, level 5.

Indexes with references to reviews:

Film Literature Index (1973- ) quarterly HumRef PN 1993.7.X1F45

International Index to Film Periodicals (1972-) annual HumRef PN 1993.X1 I49

Media Review Digest (1971- ) annual HumRef PN 1993.7.X1M85

Indexes containing reviews:

Film Review Annual (1982-) HumRef PN 1993.3 .F55x

Magill's Cinema Annual (1982-) latest vol. indexes all HumRef PN1993.45 .M34

Motion Picture Guide (1927- ) annual HumRef PN 1995.N346

New York Times Film Reviews (1913- ) biannual PN 1995.N4

Retrospective reviews:

Film Review Index (1882-1985) 2 vols. HumRef PN 1995.X1F34

Magill's Survey of Cinema several vols. HumRef PN 1993.45 .M3

Variety Film Reviews (1907-1986) HumRef PN 1993.V36

Index to Critical Film Reviews in British and American Film Periodicals. 1975. 3 vols. HumRef PN 1994 .X1B64

Film Criticism: An Index to Critics' Anthologies. 1975. HumRef PN 1995.H4

Index to Short and Feature Film Reviews in the "Moving Picture World" (1907-1915) HumRef PN 1993.M88 D33

Penguin Film Review. 2 vols. HumRef PN 1993.P45 1977

Selected Film Criticism(1896-1960). 7 vols. HumRef PN 1995 .S456

Film Reviews on the Internet

Critics.com
Includes great lists of reviews for each film.
Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
Fully searchable movie database with detailed information on thousands of films.
Movie Review Query Engine
Movie database and search engine.
MovieWEB
Movie information about upcoming and currently released motion pictures.
Reelviews
Strong coverage of foreign and independent films as well as mainstream films.
Rotten Tomatoes
Dependable resource for movie reviews, giving objective coverage of more than 100,000 movies and videos. Includes over 360,000 review links.
All-Movie Guide
A website that lists over 160,000 films with production information, cast and crew credits, synopses, reviews, etc. Includes a glossary where you can search a wide variety of film-related terms written by experts in the field.

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