Guides: WRIT 1150 (Tomlinson): Writing &amp; Culture Seminar: Review Sources

Recent Reviews (online databases)

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Full-text publications from all academic areas of study, including the sciences, social sciences, humanities, education, computer science, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) provides access to more than 17,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. Nexi Uni has three primary collections: 1) full-text access to thousands of news sources in the U.S. and abroad back to the 1970s; 2) aggregated economic data on businesses, corporations, and industries in the U.S. and abroad; 3) full-text legal documents, including U.S. Federal and State court cases, and law reviews from the late 18th century to present.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
Combines several of the Library's heavily used databases, including ProQuest Research Library, into one easy-to-search interface. Thousands of journals, newspapers, magazines, dissertations, working papers, and other scholarly content on a very broad range of topics and sources.

Internet Movie Database (imdb)
A database of information on over 420,000 feature films, television shows and movies, direct-to-video movies, and video games. Includes movie credits, filmographies, biographies (of directors, actors, writers, etc.), plot summaries, quotations, and trivia. Reviews are linked at the bottom.
Metacritic
Compiles critical reviews and assigns each movie an overall score.
Movie Review Query Engine
Links to reviews from a wide variety of newspapers and magazines, including Variety, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Times of London, and Entertainment Weekly.
Rotten Tomatoes
Links to both professional and amateur reviews. Gives an overal critical and audience rating for each movie.