If you need to find a handful of articles on film from respected journal and magazine sources, especially academic/scholarly journals, the databases listed below are excellent places to begin. 

Examples of searches:

• Here is a link to a search for articles on the French New Wave from the Academic Search Complete database:  "new wave" AND (france OR french)
• Here is a link to a search for articles on music in Stanley Kubrick's films from the Humanities International database:  kubrick AND music*
• Here is a link to a search for articles on documentaries on race from the Art Full Text database: documentar* AND (race OR racial)

Several of the "article databases" to which we subscribe contain large numbers of references to reviews, essays, and other articles about particular movies.

• If you are looking for information on a movie with a very distinctive title, that title probably is the only search term you need. Examples: "big lebowski" or "chimes at midnight"
• However, if the title is not unique and/or it also might be the title of a book, you probably will need to refine your search by including some cinematic terms.   Example: crash AND (movie* OR film* OR motion OR cinema)

The asterisk in the above examples generates a search in most databases for various forms of a word (singular, plural, etc.).

If you want to search for a multi-word phrase, as in the Big Lebowski and Chimes at Midnight examples above, enclose the search terms within quotation marks.