My answer is about like Sandra Basgall's earlier answer.  The "Times" and

"Variety" reviews are useful if available.  I also depend on other sources

readily available in the United States.  Most useful, I think, are the

contemporaneous reviews published in the periodicals cited in the biblio-

graphic volumes "The Readers Guide."  For me the whole point to the exercise

is to get a sense of what people were exposed at the time the films were

released and "Readers Guide," by definition of their mission, catalogs mass

circulation periodicals.