FILM REVIEW RESEARCH
Use the following print resources
When using print resources, determine when your film was released and then look in the appropriate volume for your film review. Always use the year after the film was released .
Title
Author Call Number Movies and TV : the New York Public Library book of answers.
Corey, Melinda.
REF 791.4 COR
Cinema.
Magill, Frank Northen.
REF 791.43 CIN
Cinema great directors
Magill, Frank Northern,
REF 791.43 CIN
Encyclopedia of European cinema
Vincendeau, Ginette,
REF 791.43 ENC
Magill's Cinema Annual. Covers 1982 to present
Banks, Michelle, Ed.
REF 791.43 MAG
Magill's survey of cinema: English language films.
Covers films from 1920’s to 1980’sMagill, Frank N.
REF 791.43 MAG
Magill's cinema annual 2001
Tomassini, Christine.
REF 791.43 MAG
Magill's Cinema Annual 2002.
REF 791.43 MAG
100 years of American film
Beaver, Frank Eugene.
REF 791.43 ONE
The Oxford Companion to Film.
Bawden, Liz-Anne.
REF 791.43 OXF
Forbidden films :
Sova, Dawn B.
REF 791.43 SOV
The encyclopedia of novels into film
Tibbetts, John C.
REF 791.43 TIB
Novels into film
Tibbetts, John C.
REF 791.43 TIB
Encyclopedia of movie special effects
Netzley, Patricia D.
REF 791.43 NET
Use the following online resources
Internet movie database, the best film review
source on the net - http://www.imdb.com/
Movie reviews from Roger Ebert - http://www.suntimes.com/index/ebert.html
Reviews for current movies from the New York Times - http://www.nytimes.com/pages/movies/ Must register to use.Includes both current movies and a film archive -
http://www.pluggedinonline.com/
Tons of reviews of tons of movies, old and current.
Highly recommended- http://www.mrqe.com/
Short film reviews on both old and new movies - http://rinkworks.com/movies/search.shtml
General reviews - It seems like the site hasn’t been updated in a while, since all the movies marked as “Currently in Theaters” were in the theater a year or two ago - http://www.filmreview.com/s/filmreview/reviews.html