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Consistency, relevance, credibility and longevity are the hallmarks of the review sites we've listed below.
Then again, a good reviewer might simply be someone you agree with more often than not.
The following reviewers are among the best known and most highly regarded.

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Best On The Net

• Roger Ebert
  Read Roger's reviews and his answer man and great movies columns, peruse his little movie glossary, check out his commentaries (and even read his editor's notes).
• James Berardinelli's Reelviews
  Conspicuous among on-line critics by way of endorsement by Roger Ebert. Be sure to read his site's delightful FAQ page and his ReelThoughts column.

Review Databases

• Google Movie Review Search
  Click the link and enter your title.
• Movie Review Query Engine
  44,000 titles and 440,000 reviews.
• Rotten Tomatoes
  Divides the movies into two categories: fresh and rotten.

Best Of The Rest

• The Chicago Reader
  Home of Jonathan Rosenbaum's reviews and articles.
• Critics.com
  Sampling top film critics, the best reviews are pitted against the worst -- read their FAQ.
• Ebert & Roeper
  Television's most visible critics.
• Ebert & Roeper at Rotten Tomatoes
  Alphabetic listing of their movie reviews.
• Los Angeles Times
  The home of Kenneth Turan.
• Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel
  Popular Chicago critic and professor of cinema studies at the University of Illinois.
• The New Republic
  Home of Stanley Kauffmann's "Films Worth Seeing"
• New York Observer
  Read this week's review by Andrew Sarris.
• The Village Voice
  Views and reviews from the big apple -- the home of reviews by J. Hoberman.

Rest Of The Best

• Audience Magazine
  A going concern for nearly four decades.
• BBC
  Reviews with an English accent.
• Guardian Unlimited Film
  More reviews with an English accent.
• Hollywood Reporter
  The view from tinseltown.
• iofilm
  Offbeat UK filmzine with film and DVD reviews.
• Los Angeles Times
  More reviews -- direct from Hollywood.
• Metacritic
  The Internet's most statistically accurate movie guide.
• New York Times
  Free registration required.
• Online Film Critics Society
  Gathering point for the best reviewers online.


• Boston Globe
• Canada.com - the CanWest Global Communications site
• Chicago Tribune
• Leonard Maltin's Picks
• Macleans Magazine
• Rolling Stone Magazine
• Toronto Star

Getting Gigli With It

• Or, How To Spot a Bad Movie From Way, Way Off
  Audience Magazine's Robert Fontenot has the rules ... geek-compiled over the years.

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• more movie review sites
• film critic organisations
• everybody's a critic
• film content guides

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