K-Search
Kenyon's one-stop search tool, K-Search, is a great place tool to use if you have a particular author or title to search for; it's also a good place to start a general search for scholarly and peer-reviewed materials.
To the left of your results list, you'll see options for filtering your results:
- Peer-reviewed (under Availability)
- Publication Date
- Resource Type (e.g., Journal Article or Book)
- Subject area
Print and Online Film Reviews
"Film reviews" and "film criticism" are sometimes used interchangeably; in this context, "reviews" are articles published in newspapers and an array of non-specialist publications (for example, in trade journals or magazines instead of peer-reviewed, scholarly journals) that typically include a synopsis of the film and commentary from the reviewer. Reviews are especially useful primary sources when studying how a film was received by audiences upon its release.
Online resources
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Film and Television Literature Index with Full Text This link opens in a new windowIn addition to scholarship and theory, features reviews from its collection of hundreds of publications including Variety movie reviews from 1914 to the present.
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New York Times Film ReviewsNYT film reviews for the last several decades. Older reviews may be found in the historical archive below. If you haven't yet registered for a NYT account with your Kenyon email, read about how to do so here.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowA wide range of news sources are searchable through Nexis Uni, try searching using a film's title and the added keyword "review".
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Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and newspaper columns. Television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
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New York Times (Historical archive) This link opens in a new window
Full text of the New York Times including article-level images. Coverage is from 1851-2017
Review aggregators
Print resources
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Magill's Survey of Cinema, Silent Films byCall Number: PN1995.75 .M33 1982
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Magill's Survey of Cinema, English Language Films, First Series byCall Number: PN1993.45 .M3Publication Date: 1980
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Magill's Survey of Cinema, English Language Films, Second Series byCall Number: PN1993.45 .M32Publication Date: 1981
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Magill's Survey of Cinema, Foreign Language Films byCall Number: PN1995.9.F67 M34Publication Date: 1985
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Magill's Cinema Annual byCall Number: PN1993.3 .M34Volumes covering 1982-2019; 1982-1998 are in storage and must be requested
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Film Review Index byCall Number: PN1995 .F53 1986Publication Date: 1986Vol. 1: 1882-1949; Vol. 2: 1950-1985