Getting Started Guide: Film Reviews & Criticisms: Databases

Tip:  If you are getting too many results from a search

• Try putting quotation marks around the title, for example:

"North By Northwest" instead of North By Northwest.

• Try adding the director's last name to the search, for example:

"North By Northwest" AND Hitchcock

Tip:  If you are getting too few results from a search

• Try searching only part of the title, for example:

If the exact movie title is  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, then try searching for just the main title Dr. Strangelove

• Try leaving out punctuation - especially semicolons, periods, and commas, for example

Instead of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb try Dr Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  Off campus access information

• Although most databases will have either the full-text or citations to film reviews or criticisms the ones listed here are the most likely places to find them.