Research Guides: Cinema and Television Arts: News, Reviews & Box Office

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Screen Magazine
Covers creative efforts in the Midwest’s film and television community. Screen Magazine also publishes a weekly newsletter with late-breaking news and events. Follow the links to more information and organizations.
indieWIRE
Covers independent filmmaking business, filmmakers and their films.
Deadline: Hollywood
A blog for film and television industry news. Offers information on current box office performance, television ratings, and industry insider information. Considered a leader in up-to-the-minute news, but the tone is casual and sometimes gossipy.

Variety Film Reviews Online
Offers complete recent reviews. Use the search box to locate the review for a particular film. Additional and older reviews can be found in the database Film & Television Literature Index or in a library search.
New York Times Film Reviews Online (1960-present)
Offers the complete reviews for 1960-present, as well as all the Best Picture Oscar winners and the films selected by the paper as the "Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made." Reviews can be browsed by title, year, critic, country of origin, and genre.
Rotten Tomatoes
Collects reviews from a wide range of sources, including the New York Times. Use this site to identify reviews and then, if you can't access it, use the Library's web site to find the original publication.
Movie Review Query Machine
Collects reviews from a wide range of sources, focusing more on print sources and established websites and less on bloggers than Rotten Tomatoes.

Variety Film Reviews (1907-1996)
These volumes are the print edition of the reviews that appeared in Variety.
New York Times Film Reviews (1913-2000)
These volumes are the print edition of the reviews that appeared in The New York Times.
Film Review Annual
This set, with volumes published yearly, compiles movie reviews from major publications around the country for significant films published that year. Publications featured include Newsweek, The New Yorker, New York, Commonweal, and The Los Angeles Times.

Top Entertainment Rankings
Latest box office and ratings rakings for movies and television.
The Numbers
The Numbers: Box Office Data, Movie Stars, Idle Speculation
Includes historical figures.
Box Office Mojo
Includes box office information for films, actors, and genres from 1980 to the present. You can also find movie forecasts, reviews, Oscar winners and more.
Box Office Online
See weekly box office reports and reviews for currently showing films.