App Profile: MUBI GO: Curated Cinema

why did you gut the app

Rating: 5/5

This time when the prompt for an App Store review popped up I rated it 5 stars. As soon as I did that the App stopped working! I get Error 500 and I can’t use it to go to the movies today. I’ve restarted my phone and deleted and reinstalled the app to no avail. No help from the website.

makotrig

Rating: 2/5

I love movies and I got this because I thought it would encourage me to go to the movie theater more. Streaming service notwithstanding, this is really really frustrating in Chicago - there are three eligible theaters (information that was kind of difficult to find on the app), two on the near north side and one downtown. My first week, the movie was supposed to be Wildcat, but instead, I was offered “the feeling that the time for doing something has passed” for two weeks, the second of which only had two showings, total, all week. I’ve had it for five weeks now and I’ve only been able to see one film. It’s annoying to not know what’s coming next and it’s doubly annoying when the rest of the country gets a movie I want to see, like Gasoline Rainbow, and I don’t. This week the film is A Woman Under the Influence, which I adore! But I can’t see it, at all. Like, zero showings in Chicago, no alternative programming. Even though last week the programming was Hit Man (for everyone in NYC and LA) which is absolutely still showing in Chicago. I don’t know if this is more developed for NYC and LA, I know they have more theaters and more of a scene, but if you live in Chicago, it’s much cheaper to just see the two movies a month that appeal to you at the Music Box or Siskel Film Center. 2 stars.

Bill Skaleski

Rating: 4/5

The Gene Siskel Film Center was showing two MUBI GO films on the same day, ‘EO’ and ‘A Couple’. I went wanting to see ‘A Couple’ but ‘EO’ was the only selection available on the app, assumingely because it was this week’s film. It would be nice to have a choice of which films to select for that week that are eligible instead of just one.