Book, Theatre, and Film Reviews

Summon is the UBC Library's meta-discovery tool that searches the UBC Library catalogue as well as multiple databases covering newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. Enter the film title using quotation marks, director's last name, and year.

After your search results display, you can broaden your results to include newspaper reviews: on the left under Content Type uncheck the box Exclude Newspaper Articles.

Indexes the most important scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences published throughout the 20th century in North America and Europe.

Excellent source for reviews of Canadian works from newspapers, newswires, news magazines, television and radio transcripts.

Extensive array of translated and English-language news and information compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources.

Full text of almost 300 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including The Globe and Mail, National Post and the Vancouver Sun. This full text database includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials, and features. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s and 1980s. Content is updated daily.

The Times Digital Archive is a full-image online archive of every page published by The Times [London] from 1785-2008.

Useful for current newspaper, blogs and other reviews available on the Internet. Be sure to use quotation marks when entering the title of the film.