LibGuides: Composition: Film Reviews

Library Search Tools

Use an "exact phrase" search with the name of the film in quotation marks. Film titles that are a single word, like Parasite or Joker, do not need quotation marks.

Not finding it? Add the word REVIEW: "Film Title" AND review

Still nothing? Try switching out the word "review" for the name of the director: "Film Title" AND Director's Name

Film & Television Literature Index With Full Text This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive bibliographic and full-text database covering the entire spectrum of television and film.
Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window
Cross-search the content of multiple Gale databases (including the content of Gale eBook titles) at one time through a streamlined, common user interface.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
A power search tool for researchers at all levels.

Search Everything
NWACC Library's "super search" tool

Web Sites

IMDb
Look up film & select “critic” under reviews.
Movie Review Query Engine
Links to 100,000+ movie reviews
RogerEbert.com
Movie reviews written in the spirit of one of America's most respected film critics. Ebert's historic reviews for older films are included, for example Mel Gibson's Hamlet.

Trade Journals

Hollywood Reporter
A trade journal focusing on Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries since 1930.
Variety
Reporting on the film industry since 1933.

Scholarly Articles & Academic Journals

Ibsen on Film
Scholarly article from Scandinavian Review considers some of the 112 film versions of Henrik Ibsen's plays.
Oedipus in Cinema
Examines the history and variety of film adaptations of the Oedipus myth based on the work of Sophocles.
Film Criticism
A peer-reviewed publication bringing together scholarship in the field of cinema and media studies since 1975.
Journal of Cinema and Media Studies
A peer-reviewed, scholarly publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. *This is a Traveler resource. The Traveler Statewide Resource project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window A multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study including: computer sciences, engineering, physics, chemistry, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, ethnic studies, and many more.
Gale Power Search This link opens in a new window Cross-search the content of multiple Gale databases (including the content of Gale eBook titles) at one time through a streamlined, common user interface.

eBooks

Novels into Film - Adaptations and Interpretation by Salem Press Editors (Editor)
Call Number: PN 1997.85 .N68 2018
ISBN: 9781682179079
Publication Date: 2018-09-01
100 concise essays on significant novels and movie adaptations, ranging from classics to contemporary favorites.
Cinematic Hamlet by Patrick J. Cook
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9780821443651
Publication Date: 2011-03-01
Scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda to translate Hamlet into highly distinctive and remarkably effective films.

News Articles

Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 40 U.S. and international newspapers. The database also contains full text for more than 300 regional newspapers. In addition, full-text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, and more.
US Newsstream This link opens in a new window Search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format. Includes access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and The Wall Street Journal. *This is a Traveler resource. The Traveler Statewide Resource project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Access World News This link opens in a new window NewsBank's Access World News database features full-text articles from national and world newspapers and transcripts of broadcast news reports. The database includes full text from the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (2015-present), Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (1994-present), Arkansas Times (2004-present), Arkansas Traveler (2004-present), Benton County Daily Record (2001-2015), Morning News of Northwest Arkansas (2004-2009), Northwest Arkansas Times (2001-2015), Rogers Morning News (2009-2015), and Springdale Morning News (2009-2015).

Composition: Film Reviews