Accuracy, counted rather than claimed.

Window

the last 30 days · newest check Sep 18, 3:04 PM SF

Kept since

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

Sample

941 checks recorded · 915 completed · 30 disagreed

Excluded

26 checks 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. 2040 screenings are on the board now.

venue-published

735 screenings

read from the theater's own system or site

corroborated

0 screenings

two independent sources agree

single-source

1305 screenings

one licensed feed says so, nothing contradicts it

disputed

0 screenings

sources disagree — published, and said so

By house in San Francisco

• 4-Star Theater113 of 125

  verified-scrape · 23 venue-published

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Alamo Drafthouse New Mission99 of 99

  public-feed · 189 venue-published · 17 not completed

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Vogue Theatre101 of 112

  verified-scrape · 32 venue-published

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Balboa Theater104 of 111

  verified-scrape · 79 venue-published

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Castro Theatre106 of 106

  verified-scrape · 69 venue-published · 3 not completed

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Artists' Television Access83 of 83

  verified-scrape · 7 venue-published · 6 not completed

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Roxie Theater78 of 78

  verified-scrape · 92 venue-published

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Marina Theatre76 of 76

  verified-scrape · 45 venue-published

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Landmark Opera Plaza Cinema63 of 63

  public-feed · 111 venue-published

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Presidio Theatre62 of 62

  verified-scrape · 87 venue-published

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• AMC Metreon 16not checkable — licensed feed

  licensed-feed — Google showtimes, via a licensed search API · 414 single-source

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Apple Cinemas Van Nessnot checkable — licensed feed

  licensed-feed — Google showtimes, via a licensed search API · 389 single-source

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• Regal Stonestown Gallerianot checkable — operator declines

  licensed-feed — Google showtimes, via a licensed search API · 340 single-source

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• AMC Kabuki 8not checkable — licensed feed

  licensed-feed — Google showtimes, via a licensed search API · 162 single-source

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• New People Cinemanot yet sampled

  verified-scrape · 1 venue-published

  verified Sep 18, 9:49AM SF

• Great Star Theaternot yet sampled

  nothing on the board

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

• SFMOMA — Phyllis Wattis Theaternot yet sampled

  nothing on the board

  verified Sep 18, 3:00PM SF

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: we bought those showtimes from an aggregator, 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.