Intro
The data analyzed in this assignment was movie reviews critiques and their critiques, pulled from the New York Times API. The task included accessing the chosen information contained in the API for it to then bwe read in the JSON data, and transformed into an R DataFrame.
Importing libraries and retrieving the Data
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response <- GET("https://api.nytimes.com/svc/movies/v2/reviews/search.json?api-key=yNHI7wXwGGegzABJslljTcIvEZuAHVqp")
content <- content(response, "text")
data <- fromJSON(content)Creating the Dataframe
movie_rev <- data.frame(data$results)
movie_rev$link <- movie_rev$link$url
movie_rev <- subset(movie_rev, select = c(-multimedia, -opening_date, -date_updated))
movie_rev$critics_pick <- ifelse(movie_rev$critics_pick == 1, "yes", "no")
knitr::kable(movie_rev, col.names = c("Movie Titles", "MPAA Ratign", "Critics Pick", "Critics", "Review Headline", "Review Summary (Short)", "Publication Date", "Link"))| Movie Titles | MPAA Ratign | Critics Pick | Critics | Review Headline | Review Summary (Short) | Publication Date | Link |
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| Tori and Lokita | yes | Manohla Dargis | ‘Tori and Lokita’ Review: Precarious Lives in Exile | In the new movie from the Dardenne brothers, two underage African migrants struggle to make a home in an unkind land. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/tori-and-lokita-review-dardenne.html | |
| The Worst Ones | yes | Lisa Kennedy | ‘The Worst Ones’ Review: The Gazes of Children | In their feature, the directors Lisa Akoka and Romane Gueret build a provocative critique of filmmaking practices. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/the-worst-ones-review.html | |
| Petite Solange | yes | Natalia Winkelman | ‘Petite Solange’ Review: Coming of Age as Your Parents Divorce | Axelle Ropert’s carefully calibrated film from France follows a girl experiencing the pain of having to accept her parents as people with faults. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/petite-solange-review.html | |
| Reggie | PG-13 | yes | Glenn Kenny | ‘Reggie’ Review: Reggie Jackson on Himself, Racism and, Yes, Baseball | Jackson, a.k.a. Mr. October, was called a lot of things during his storied career with the Yankees. A new documentary goes beyond the nicknames. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/reggie-review.html |
| Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV | yes | Nicolas Rapold | ‘Nam June Paik: Moon Is the Oldest TV’ Review: Art Onscreen | A new documentary follows the ceaseless innovations of a man who made art out of television sets and found inspiration in disruption. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/nam-june-paik-moon-is-the-oldest-tv-review.html | |
| Walk Up | yes | Austin Considine | ‘Walk Up’ Review: Good Friends Make Bad Neighbors | Hong Sang-soo’s latest film traces the relationships in a small Seoul apartment building as they evolve and grow heavier with complications. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/walk-up-review.html | |
| The Lost King | PG-13 | yes | Jeannette Catsoulis | ‘The Lost King’ Review: A Royal Obsession | Sally Hawkins lights a fire under this droll dramedy about the search for the final resting place of Richard III. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/the-lost-king-review.html |
| The Five Devils | yes | Beatrice Loayza | ‘The Five Devils’ Review: The Scent of the Past | Part queer love story, part supernatural psychodrama, the uncanny second feature by Léa Mysius follows a young girl with a magical sense of smell. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/the-five-devils-review.html | |
| John Wick: Chapter 4 | R | no | Manohla Dargis | ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah | In the latest and longest movie set in Wick World, Keanu Reeves’s titular assassin visits Paris and paints the town red. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/john-wick-chapter-4-keanu-reeves.html |
| A Good Person | R | no | Brandon Yu | ‘A Good Person’ Review: Zach Braff’s New Chapter | The filmmaker behind “Garden State” has created a fully drawn female character in Florence Pugh’s grieving addict. But this recovery drama often has too heavy a hand. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/a-good-person-review-zach-braff.html |
| Ithaka | no | Amy Nicholson | ‘Ithaka’ Review: In Julian Assange They Trust | A frustrating new advocacy documentary about the WikiLeaks founder, with appearances by his father and wife, loses its footing on weak assertions and reporting. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/ithaka-review.html | |
| What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? | no | Calum Marsh | ‘What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?’ Review: What Goes Up | The rise and fall of a classic-rock band is chronicled (shakily) in this documentary. | 2023-03-23 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/what-the-hell-happened-to-blood-sweat-tears-review.html | |
| Kubrick by Kubrick | no | Ben Kenigsberg | ‘Kubrick by Kubrick’ Review: Stanley Plays Himself | A primer on the filmmaker’s career and interests won’t offer much that will surprise even mild obsessives, but it does pierce some of the mystique. | 2023-03-21 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/21/movies/kubrick-by-kubrick-review.html | |
| Rimini | yes | Beatrice Loayza | ‘Rimini’ Review: Just an Austrian Gigolo | The director Ulrich Seidl’s unsettling drama tracks the exploitative behaviors of an aging lounge singer, his fans and family members. | 2023-03-16 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/movies/rimini-review.html | |
| Drylongso | R | yes | Lisa Kennedy | ‘Drylongso’ Review: Extraordinary | Cauleen Smith’s 1998 movie, set in Oakland in the mid-90s, remains a vivid and prescient feature debut. | 2023-03-16 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/movies/drylongso-review.html |
| The Innocent | yes | Claire Shaffer | ‘The Innocent’ Review: A Heist With a French Accent | A light, enjoyable confection of a film that is built upon an amusingly absurd premise. | 2023-03-16 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/movies/the-innocent-review-a-heist-with-a-french-accent.html | |
| Moving On | R | no | A.O. Scott | ‘Moving On’ Review: Cracking Jokes and Settling Scores | Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda team up in an awkward comedy about two women contemplating the murder of a predatory man. | 2023-03-16 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/movies/moving-on-review-lily-tomlin-jane-fonda.html |
| Inside | R | no | Amy Nicholson | ‘Inside’ Review: Tortured Artist, Meet Tortured Man | Willem Dafoe stars as an art thief who gets trapped in a penthouse in this drama. | 2023-03-16 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/movies/inside-review-willem-dafoe.html |
| The Spirit of ’45 | no | Ben Kenigsberg | ‘The Spirit of ’45’ Review: Here Comes Nationalization | A documentary from Ken Loach sees the end of World War II as a brief moment of possibility for socialism in Britain. | 2023-03-16 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/movies/the-spirit-of-45-review.html | |
| Shazam! Fury of the Gods | PG-13 | no | Amy Nicholson | ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods’ Review: Yells Like Teen Spirit | The problem with this sequel is that the character used up his best ideas in the first movie. | 2023-03-16 | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/movies/shazam-fury-of-the-gods-review.html |
Analysis
This analysis dives into how each critic critics their reviewed movies. The dataset was filtered to only analyze those who critiqued more than 1 movie to recognize any pattern that may arise.
repetitive_critcs <- movie_rev %>%
arrange(byline) %>%
filter(duplicated(byline) | duplicated(byline, fromLast = TRUE))critiques_count <- repetitive_critcs %>%
group_by(byline, critics_pick) %>%
summarize(count = n())## `summarise()` has grouped output by 'byline'. You can override using the
## `.groups` argument.##Visualization
ggplot(critiques_count, aes(byline, count, fill = critics_pick)) +
geom_col() +
scale_fill_manual(values = c("#C80404", "#C804B2")) +
labs(x = "Critics", y = "Count", fill = "Critic Pick", title ="Diversity in Critics Recommendations") +
theme_minimal() +
theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 45, vjust = 1, hjust = 1),
plot.title = element_text(hjust = 0.5))
repetitive_critcs %>%
filter(byline == "Manohla Dargis")## display_title mpaa_rating critics_pick byline
## 1 Tori and Lokita yes Manohla Dargis
## 2 John Wick: Chapter 4 R no Manohla Dargis
## headline
## 1 ‘Tori and Lokita’ Review: Precarious Lives in Exile
## 2 ‘John Wick: Chapter 4’ Review: There Will Be Blood, Yeah
## summary_short
## 1 In the new movie from the Dardenne brothers, two underage African migrants struggle to make a home in an unkind land.
## 2 In the latest and longest movie set in Wick World, Keanu Reeves’s titular assassin visits Paris and paints the town red.
## publication_date
## 1 2023-03-23
## 2 2023-03-23
## link
## 1 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/tori-and-lokita-review-dardenne.html
## 2 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/23/movies/john-wick-chapter-4-keanu-reeves.html##Conclusion As shown in the visualization, we see that most critics who analyze movies are unannimous in their decision as to whether they would recommenend said movie. The only critic to have some diversity within their answers is Manohla Dargis where from the 2 movies she reviewed, she recommended 1 (Tori and Lokita) and not the other (John Wick: Chapter 4.