Film reviews are short overviews that tell a general audience information about a film. There is often minor critique. Film reviews can be useful because it gives you a sense of how a film was received at the time it premiered. In the pre-internet world, film reviews were often written by arts or film critics and published in magazines or newspapers.
Some of the magazines or newspapers listed below are in print and some are online.
Film criticism is an analysis or an evaluation of a film or films. There are broadly two types of film criticism. Journalistic or popular criticism is meant for popular audiences and published widely on the internet or in newspapers or magazines. Scholarly or academic criticism engages with film theory and the scholarly conversation in film studies. The databases below are places to look for film criticism.
Indexes critical literary and language scholarship and provides access to journals and serials, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.
Search by keyword or topic for book chapters from Cambridge's collection of introductory texts. Topics include literature, poetry, theatre, philosophy, religion, history, and culture. Chapters include synopses and further reading.
Contains full text critical literary commentary from several well-known resources: Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism, Shakespearean Literature Criticism, and Short Story Criticism.
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