I am interested in seeing the NYT movie reviews for movies that were released in 2019. I am particularly interested in seeing how many of the movies that were reviewed, were ‘critic picks’.
library(jsonlite)
library(dplyr)
library(stringr)
library (ggplot2)I identified the Movie API from the NYT developer site and got my API key for it. Since I am only interested in looking at the reviews for movies that were released in 2019, I modified the API to only include movies that had an opening date between 2019-01-01 to 2020-01-01.
url <- "https://api.nytimes.com/svc/movies/v2/reviews/search.json?opening-date=2019-01-01;2020-01-01"
key <- "OkVf8SLjqbsAbQAvVbiJBn6yRY7azROI"
addurl <- paste0(url, "&api-key=")
# fetched using json + key call
data <- fromJSON(paste0(addurl, key))
summary(data)## Length Class Mode
## status 1 -none- character
## copyright 1 -none- character
## has_more 1 -none- logical
## num_results 1 -none- numeric
## results 11 data.frame listdf <- data$results
knitr:: kable (df)| display_title | mpaa_rating | critics_pick | byline | headline | summary_short | publication_date | opening_date | date_updated | link | multimedia |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Devil Has a Name | R | 0 | Ben Kenigsberg | ‘The Devil Has a Name’ Review: A Little Guy Takes On Big Oil | A farmer sues an oil company in this well-meaning but muddled drama directed by Edward James Olmos. | 2020-10-15 | 2019-08-04 | 2020-10-15 11:04:07 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
| The Cuban | 0 | Glenn Kenny | ‘The Cuban’ Review: Memories Lost and Reignited | Louis Gossett Jr. plays a musician with Alzheimer’s disease whose new nurse helps him reach back into his past. | 2020-07-30 | 2019-12-07 | 2020-07-30 11:04:04 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| Spark | 0 | Ben Kenigsberg | ‘Spark’ and ‘The Observer’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Past, and China’s | A pair of documentaries serve as an introduction to Hu Jie, a documentarian whose films memorialize the horrors of the Mao era. | 2020-07-02 | 2019-12-31 | 2020-07-02 15:16:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America | 0 | Ben Kenigsberg | ‘Unsettled: Seeking Refuge in America’ Review: Embracing a New Home | A documentary on L.G.B.T.Q. refugees becomes progressively engaging as its subjects’ paths diverge. | 2020-06-29 | 2019-04-01 | 2020-06-29 20:02:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| Parkland Rising | 0 | Teo Bugbee | ‘Parkland Rising’ Review: A Close-Up on Activism After a Tragedy | A documentary profiles students and parents who became organizers after the school shooting, but doesn’t provide a lot of fresh insight. | 2020-06-04 | 2019-10-04 | 2020-06-04 11:04:03 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| Citizen K | 0 | Ben Kenigsberg | ‘Citizen K’ Review: Trying to Pin Down a Russian Oligarch | A detailed documentary on Mikhail Khodorkovsky proves slightly unsatisfying. | 2020-01-14 | 2019-11-22 | 2020-02-12 17:44:01 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| Ghost Stories | 0 | Bilal Qureshi | ‘Ghost Stories’ Review: Bollywood Aims for Frights | With this Netflix anthology, four directors from Indian cinema draw horror from a country’s lived reality. | 2020-01-02 | 2019-12-31 | 2020-01-02 12:04:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| One Cut of the Dead | Not Rated | 1 | Elisabeth Vincentelli | ‘One Cut of the Dead’ Review: A Fresh Take on the Zombie Flick | A one-take movie stunt is justified in the Japanese director Shinichiro Ueda’s fast and furious backstage comedy. | 2019-12-25 | 2019-09-24 | 2019-12-25 14:04:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
| Clemency | R | 0 | Manohla Dargis | ‘Clemency’ Review: No Place for Mercy | A tremendous Alfre Woodard plays a warden at a prison whose world is upended by the fate of death-row inmates. | 2019-12-25 | 2019-12-27 | 2020-01-17 17:44:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
| The 21st Annual Animation Show of Shows | 0 | Glenn Kenny | Review: Animated Shorts of Every Stripe and Feather | Find a pen-and-ink dog, stop-motion girl and a C.G.I. fox in “The 21st Annual Animation Show of Shows.” | 2019-12-24 | 2019-12-25 | 2020-01-13 17:44:01 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael | 0 | Jeannette Catsoulis | ‘What She Said’ Review: Pauline Kael, Screen Queen | Kael’s distinctively passionate voice, competing with movie fragments, is disastrously muffled, as are those of her admirers and detractors. | 2019-12-24 | 2019-12-25 | 2020-01-15 17:44:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| 1917 | R | 0 | Manohla Dargis | ‘1917’ Review: Paths of Technical Glory | Sam Mendes directs this visually extravagant drama about young British soldiers on a perilous mission in World War I. | 2019-12-24 | 2019-12-25 | 2020-01-24 17:44:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
| Spies in Disguise | PG | 0 | Glenn Kenny | ‘Spies in Disguise’ Review: Smug Agent Meets Gadget Geek | Will Smith and Tom Holland are an action odd couple in this animated comedy. | 2019-12-24 | 2019-12-25 | 2020-01-24 17:44:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
| The Song of Names | PG-13 | 0 | Ben Kenigsberg | ‘The Song of Names’ Review: A Prodigy, a War and a Mystery | A young violinist goes missing in London in 1951. The eventual answer as to why is powerful. | 2019-12-24 | 2019-12-25 | 2020-01-17 17:44:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
| Little Women | PG | 1 | A.O. Scott | ‘Little Women’ Review: This Movie Is Big | Greta Gerwig refreshes a literary classic with the help of a dazzling cast that includes Saoirse Ronan, Florence Pugh, Laura Dern and Meryl Streep. | 2019-12-23 | 2019-12-25 | 2020-01-23 17:44:01 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
| Dabangg 3 | 0 | Rachel Saltz | ‘Dabangg 3’ Review: A Hero From the School of Knock ’em Hard | In this Bollywood action flick, Salman Khan is a one-man wrecking crew. When not knocking heads, he dances. | 2019-12-22 | 2019-12-20 | 2020-01-09 17:44:01 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| Invisible Life | R | 1 | Glenn Kenny | ‘Invisible Life’ Review: Sisterhood Is Stronger Than Patriarchy | Two sisters living in 1950s Brazil are kept apart by their father but can’t be spiritually separated. | 2019-12-19 | 2019-12-20 | 2020-01-19 17:44:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
| Togo | PG | 0 | Jason Bailey | ‘Togo’ Review: A Man, His Dogs and a Very Bad Storm | Willem Dafoe stars in the latest addition to Disney’s sled dog canon. | 2019-12-19 | 2019-12-20 | 2019-12-19 12:04:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
| She’s Missing | 0 | Jeannette Catsoulis | ‘She’s Missing’ Review: Gone Girl | An ominous atmosphere of impermanence marks this story of a New Mexico waitress who embarks on a perilous search for her vanished friend. | 2019-12-19 | 2019-12-20 | 2019-12-19 12:04:03 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 | |
| Cats | PG | 0 | Manohla Dargis | ‘Cats’ Review: They Dance, They Sing, They Lick Their Digital Fur | Tom Hooper’s movie is not a catastrophe. It’s not even an epic hairball. | 2019-12-19 | 2019-12-20 | 2020-01-19 17:44:02 | article | mediumThreeByTwo210 |
I would like to clean the results up a bit and get rid of the last two columns,
df = subset(df,select=-c(link,multimedia))nrow(df)## [1] 20The critics pick column indicates if a movie was picked by critics or not (1=yes,0=no).
critics_pick <- df %>%
filter(critics_pick==1)
nrow(critics_pick)## [1] 3Out of the 20 movies released in 2019 that were reviewed, only 3 were critic picks.
knitr::kable(critics_pick$display_title)| x |
|---|
| One Cut of the Dead |
| Little Women |
| Invisible Life |