Movie review sites

At first I wandered blithely from review to review as found on assorted search engines.
Then I found the list of Top 100 Movie Sites list. Some of these I recognised from my wanderings.
Here's my review of the movie review sites. Please mail me your favorite movie review site.

URL (reviewer)	Number of titles	Quality of review	Search engine	Index
Internet Movie Database (user, external and newsgroup reviews; awards &nominations; recommendations)	most cult, foreign and popular	user and newsgroup reviews are sporadic; external reviews can be good	yes (plus more which is by title, cast, character, quotes, etc.)	by year, genre, etc.
Q Network Film Desk (James Kendrick)	popular	v good	(all listed on index page; use "find")	(alpha by decade, on index page)
Roger Ebert & the Movies (Siskel and Ebert)	popular	good	yes (only simple)	Best/Worst (by year)
Movies at Netscape (both critics and users)	recent popular	sporadic	yes	yes (alpha)
Cranky Critic® (Cranky, aka Chuck Schwartz; if he "isn't the demographic target, we lug friends in. Chicks, gays, little kids, whoever.")	recent popular	good (cynical - not afraid to give a $0 rating)	yes (whole of site)	no
Internet Film/Movie Guide (theirs and users)	popular	sporadic	yes (plus advanced)	yes (by alpha)
ReelViews (James Berardinelli)	popular and some foreign	sporadic	yes	yes (by alpha, rating or year)
VideoEzy Au VHS, DVD store (none)	popular and some other	(synopsis only)	yes	new, top20, upcoming
Softcom Au movie distributor (user)	current popular	sporadic	no	top30, trailers, now showing (by cinema)
Ain't It Cool (theirs)	some current popular	sporadic	yes (plus advanced)	yes (alpha)

Test films (suggestions welcome)

cult: Guest House Paradiso
foreign (non-U.S.) test films: Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, The Visitor, Nikita (1990)
popular test films: Blade Runner, La Femme Nikita (1993, aka Point of No Return)

Quality of review

v good and good -> I seem to agree with what they say most/some of the time!
sporadic -> you never know whether they'll accidentally get it right or wrong
"user" reviews (i.e. by random Internet users) have the highest dynamic range: they are least to be trusted but perhaps most to offer in original opinion, with the freshest point-of-view
"their" reviews are written by some faceless hack, who probably does it for a living and may have a clue
named reviews are written by someone who's living depends on being professional and trustworthy (though how can you please all people?)

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Last updated 14 May 2001