Movie Finder Applications on Android

I wanted to evaluate some of the Movie Searching Applications for Android, and this is just a quick intro to some of the ones that I have used in order of my preference.

All of these applications use your location and the internet to give you more information to help you find movies and show times.

1. Movie Finder
   
   • Has a very clean main page, showing newly released movies first . You can sort by title or rating on the main screen. The ratings come from Google movie ratings.
   • Also easily accessible is the theater view and the upcoming movie view. The theater can be sorted by name or distance.
     
   • When you drill down on a movie, you can see the movie posters, links to trailers and the IMDB page, as well as show times in your area.
   • Nice clean application, and my number one. I wish they had rotten tomato ratings because I think this is a better source for movie ratings than Google.
     
2. Flixster Movies
   
   • Gives you information on the main window about box office movies, upcoming movies, theater information and show times, and dvd movies.
     
   • It's a pretty clean page which is visually appealing and gives you ratings that come from flixster users and rotten tomatoes, although at the moment, you have to drill down to see the rotten tomatoes rating. I wish this weren't the case because I think rotten tomatoes is a great source of accurate ratings.
   • Also has a drill down for trailers and show times which is nice and clean.
3. Movies and Showtimes
   
   • This feels more like a browser window than a client application.
   • It provides ratings based on IMDB movie ratings, and really just shows a list view with very little information on the main navigational page.
     
   • You really have to drill down hard to find information about the show times.
     
   • This also seems to be the most popular application in the Android market for finding movies. I don't exactly know why, since I don't think it is that great.
     
4. Where
   
   • Seems to list movies in alphabetical order which is inconvenient since you would probably be searching for movies based on popularity or release date.
   • Has a local theaters and local movies tab and defaults to the local theaters tab when it would be nicer to default to the movies tab.
   • There aren't any pictures, trailers, or visuals to help you with the movie. It is all text based and fairly ugly.