Now Playing Movie Info App for iPhone

Now Playing (free, download) is simply my favorite movie info app in the iTunes App Store. Its killer feature is integration with movie review sites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. These sites gather hundreds of critical reviews and average them out to deliver a single rating score. Now Playing integrates the scores throughout its interface. For example, when browsing the local movie times, the review score is shown next to every movie title. It makes deciding which movie to see tonight so much easier.

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Another awesome feature is integration with your Netflix account (this feature has to be enabled in the menu settings). You can add movies to your Netflix queue through the app. Don’t want to pay $10 to a movie in the theater? Just add it to your queue, and you won’t have to remember later when the DVD comes out.

Now Playing can sort movie and theater information by release date, title, and overall review score, as well as by theater distance. Tapping any movie will give you a description, your favorite theaters’ play time, the ability to watch a trailer, read reviews, websites, and links to imdb and Wikipedia.

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The only feature it’s missing is the ability to search the entire databases of Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic. It’d be nice to check out movies a couple years old, then add them to my Netflix queue. The current search features only works for recently released movies and DVD/Blu-rays.

If you’re a movie junkie, this is a killer app to have on you at all times. The developer has been adding features and has updated the app 10 times so far, so keep checking for the latest update and the latest features.

Now Playing is a free download in the iTunes App Store.

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Name: Now Playing
Developer: Cyrus Najmabadi
Version Reviewed: 2.6
Price: Free
Download: Now Playing