This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,500 journals, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed titles. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for 1,000 titles. This online database indexes cinema-related journals such as Film Comment (1984-), Film Culture (1992-1996), Film History (2000-), Film Quarterly (1990-), and Films in Review (1990-1996)
FIAF International Index to Film Periodicals
A major resource for film studies periodical research. When searching for reviews, after entering film title or director\'s name, enter "review" in article type field. (some full-text)
Film Indexes International
Actually 2 resources (Film Indexes Online and the American Film Institute Catalog), a great resource for finding production credits for a particular film. Each record includes (at the end) a "References" section which often includes reviews (no full-text)
LexisNexis Academic
Covers most of the major newspapers. A "Quick News Search" can be done: quiet city and review
Video Librarian Plus!
(primarily documentaries and education titles)
"Video Librarian Plus! adds online access, offering subscribers both the print magazine and online access to a searchable database of over 22,000 full-text video reviews, a searchable database of nearly 1,000 video distributors, breaking news, and a months in advance video release calendar."
Web & Beyond
FilmCritic.Com
..."one of the oldest and certainly the liveliest film and movie review destination on the Web! Founded in 1995, Filmcritic.com hosts more than 7,000 movie reviews and feature stories contributed by 20-some critics located throughout the world. Six of our contributors are members of the Online Film Critics Society, the Internet\'s most prestigious critics\' organization. Celebrities ranging from Owen Wilson to Russ Meyer, Jackie Chan, Val Kilmer, Jeff Daniels, Kevin Costner, Daniel Day-Lewis, John Woo, David Cronenberg, Mira Sorvino, John Singleton, Alicia Witt, and Wes Anderson have been interviewed on the site. We are based in San Francisco, with outposts in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Austin, Charlotte, Tampa, Philadelphia, and elsewhere.
MetaCritic.Com
"Since its inception, Metacritic has provided a cross-section of reviews from a carefully-screened group of the most respected critics for the latest (as well as earlier) releases in film, video, music, books and games in a clean, user-friendly manner. And only Metacritic uses Metascores to combine all of the individual critic scores into an overall grade for each item, so users can gauge the critical consensus at a glance. In fact, our scoring system is so unique (unique, complicated--what\'s the difference?) that it merits its own explanation page."
Women\'s Studies Database Film Reviews
BBC Films Archive
Online access to BBC Film Reviews
H-Net Reviews (FILM)
H-Net Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences is an online scholarly review resource.
Movie Review Query Engine
This web site will allow you to search for movie reviews in national and regional newspapers. Some of the results are far-out, but all in all its a good resource for locating current reviews.
Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies