Reviews

Resources in this category:

Cinemachine: the Movie Review Search Engine
http://www.cinemachine.net/

This is a vast index of movie reviews from a broad variety of sources. All reviews are available full text, and each movie is also linked to the appropriate page in the Internet Movie Database.

Common Sense Media
http://www.commonsensemedia.org/

Offers ratings and age-appropriateness levels for parents and educators who are making decisions about media resources for children. Includes movies, Web sites, television shows, video games, books, and music. Available in Spanish.

The Dove Foundation
http://www.dove.org/

Christian site that reviews music, books, television programs, and movies to help parents identify family-friendly entertainment for younger children.

Future Movies
http://www.futuremovies.co.uk/

This is a British site with movie reviews and features about upcoming releases of American and foreign films. It also contains interviews with filmmakers and other people in the film business.

Movie Review Query Engine
http://www.mrqe.com/movies?q=

This is a vast index of movie reviews from a broad variety of sources. All reviews are available full text, and each movie is also linked to the appropriate page in the the internet movie database

Movie Say: the Film Buzz Index
http://www.moviesay.com/

Ranks and reviews movies based on how often they are discussed (the "buzz") on the Internet. Covers movies that are older, current, about to be released or being made.

Moviefone
http://www.moviefone.com/

Search for movie showtimes, theaters, and reviews from critics and users. Moviefone also provides movie and entertainment news, special features and videos, DVD release info, editors' picks, top movie lists, and movie trailers.

Pacific Film Archive--Past Film Program Notes
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/search/film

A searchable database of "over 16,000 critical and historical texts about films shown at PFA from 1979 to the present, many of them constituting unique documentation of rare films."

Rotten Tomatoes
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/

Rotten Tomatoes offers a fun and informative way to discover the critical reaction to movies from the nation's top print and online film critics, neatly summarized.