Accuracy, counted rather than claimed.

Window

the last 30 days · newest check Nov 2, 6:13 PM SF

Kept since

Aug 4, 8:37 AM SF time — the record is this old, and no older

Sample

696 checks recorded · 695 completed · 19 disagreed

Excluded

1 check could not be completed

Where only one reader has spoken

In Contra Costa, the Imperial Valley, the Antelope Valley, the East Bay, Marin, the South Bay, Sacramento, Wine Country, Monterey Bay, the North State, the Sierra, the North Coast, Central Los Angeles, the Westside, the San Fernando Valley, the LA South Bay, the San Gabriel Valley, Orange County, San Diego, the Coachella Valley, the Inland Empire, the Central Valley, Kern County, the South Valley, Santa Barbara, the Central Coast, Ventura County, Oahu, Maui, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Palm Bay, Cape Coral, North Port, Deltona, Naples, Tallahassee, Port St. Lucie, Ocala, Wildwood, every showtime is still re-read against the cinema’s own board — that is the check the pass rate above counts, and it runs everywhere. What does not run in those regions is the second reader: a separate source we consult to ask whether the whole night agrees, which today covers San Francisco only.

One reader confirming a showtime is a weaker thing than two readers agreeing about a night, and the difference is stated here rather than folded into a single number.

Where we cannot check ourselves

In the Big Island, the Peninsula, the Morongo Basin, Crestview, Gainesville, Pensacola, Homosassa Springs, Panama City, Sebastian, Lake City, Punta Gorda, Sebring, every cinema we list is served by a licensed feed rather than read from the operator’s own site. We can tell you what the feed says. We cannot independently confirm it, because there is no second source for these houses that we are permitted to read — so the pass rate above is not a claim about those regions.

That is a weaker guarantee than the rest of the board carries, and it is stated here rather than left to be inferred from a missing number.

Why some checks are not counted

A check can come back wrong for two very different reasons. Either the source disagreed with us — a title we do not list, a listing that surface has dropped, a link that opens on the wrong film — or the check never happened at all: a ticketing host answered with a bot challenge, a calendar rendered in the browser and served us an empty shell, a request timed out. The first kind is our problem and counts against the rate. The second says nothing about whether the showtime is right, so it is excluded from the denominator and reported separately, in the open, rather than folded in as a pass. A rate that quietly counts unreachable checks as successes is the easiest number in this business to inflate and the least worth having.

The rule, as the API states it: confirmed / (confirmed + missing). Unreachable checks are excluded — a bot wall is not evidence either way. null when nothing gradeable ran in the window. Read it next to first_check_at: a high rate over a young record is a young record.

How well the board is known

Confidence is stamped on every screening at publish, from where the fact came from and whether anything independent agrees. 1391 screenings are on the board now.

venue-published

624 screenings

read from the theater's own system or site

corroborated

0 screenings

two independent sources agree

single-source

767 screenings

one third-party data service says so, nothing contradicts it

disputed

0 screenings

sources disagree — published, and said so

By house in San Francisco

• Landmark Opera Plaza Cinema75 of 75

  public-feed · 49 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Marina Theatre74 of 74

  verified-scrape · 11 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Presidio Theatre73 of 73

  verified-scrape · 53 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Roxie Theater72 of 72

  verified-scrape · 78 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Vogue Theatre65 of 70

  verified-scrape · 27 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Castro Theatre68 of 68

  verified-scrape · 56 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• 4-Star Theater58 of 66

  verified-scrape · 31 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Balboa Theater56 of 59

  verified-scrape · 72 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Alamo Drafthouse New Mission55 of 58

  public-feed · 241 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Artists' Television Access55 of 55

  verified-scrape · 4 venue-published · 1 not completed

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• SFMOMA — Phyllis Wattis Theater25 of 25

  verified-scrape · 2 venue-published

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• AMC Metreon 16not checkable — licensed feed

  licensed-feed — Google showtimes, via a third-party search API · 250 single-source

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Apple Cinemas Van Nessnot checkable — licensed feed

  licensed-feed — Google showtimes, via a third-party search API · 242 single-source

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Regal Stonestown Gallerianot checkable — operator declines

  licensed-feed — Google showtimes, via a third-party search API · 191 single-source

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• AMC Kabuki 8not checkable — licensed feed

  licensed-feed — Google showtimes, via a third-party search API · 84 single-source

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• Great Star Theaternot yet sampled

  nothing on the board

  verified Nov 2, 6:13PM SF

• New People Cinemanot yet sampled

  nothing on the board

Checks rotate — a few houses are cross-checked every run and the mystery shopper walks a sample of ticket links — so a house reading “not yet sampled” is waiting its turn, not failing. Two rows never get a turn, and the difference between them matters. “Not checkable — operator declines” is a house whose own site refuses automated reads; we honour the refusal, source those showtimes through a permitted channel named in the source column, and never disguise a request to get around it. “Not checkable — licensed feed” is ours, not theirs: those showtimes come from a third-party showtimes data service rather than from the theater itself, and re-reading the same feed would confirm it against itself, so the shopper refuses them outright. Both publish as single-source, because nothing second-checks them. Screening counts and fetch health for every house are on the status board.