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Broken
Have to be selective about when to subscribe due to high price but it’s worth it for the fantastic curation. What’s not worth $15 per month is a streaming app that can’t play for 30 seconds before quitting out of the film and bringing you back to the movie’s page. It’s not even buffering-I have to wait for it to quit out and then rebuffed before it will play again. I have good Internet and no other streaming app I use has this issue. I can skate by on downloads this month but a service this pricey has to actually function to be worth it. EDIT: this happens for downloads to so I guess it’s just wasted money.Show lessTotally not a student
Developer Response
First, we suggest reinstalling the app on your phone. If the issue continues after you’ve done so, please email us at support@mubi.com, so the team there can help improve your experience.Art over practicality - fonts & layouts impossible to read
This app needs to revisit graphic design 101. It would be nice to see what this app is all about but it’s a mishmash of styles and colors that push esthetics over good old fashion readability. They want $13 a month for the equivalent of art haus trash design. Just NO!
The app fails miserably at its primary goal which is to inform its users of great cinema. It’s extremely hard work to read. Click though to a review it quickly becomes sadistic and beyond frustrating to discover the art team made the choice to use anorexic light gray fonts more applicable to fashion models then simple block text for the body of an article. Until they embrace better design I recommend a hard pass.Show lessBanyan B
amazing app/subscription with major download issues
Mubi makes an incredible variety of films available, and their curated series are particularly impressive — easy introductions to new filmmakers, movements, or topics. That said, the download option is so hit-and-miss that it’s nearly useless. I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app, as well as tried many different wi-fi sources, but the result is always the same: more often than not, films get stuck at about 9% for weeks, or try for a while, and then fail. Given that one of the great things about an app like Mubi is being able to watch things offline, this is a huge flaw in an otherwise excellent service.Show lessINKling116
Geez this reminds me of MY college days!
So I see talk of millennials and Gen Z and I think, geez I’m a Gen X and a white girl and this looks a lot like my time at Ohio State in the 80s. True, I don’t know what it’s like to be bi racial, but still I could feel Riley’s multi dimensional self hate, being rejected not only by a white boy but by an Asian boy too (and you want to scream at her: “So what if he’s cute? He’s a skater dude, dumb, he plays video games!”). The doofus white ex boyfriend w whom she fights outside (and I too love the female passerby tells him no one asked him to talk— something I’ve wanted to tell about 4,000 white guys in the last 40 years)— this scene is great, bc she’s so angry, properly, at him, but then sees the absurdity of their situation. Her anxiety attack at home? With her parents? So real.
Again, I understand the element of racism is something I’ll never understand, but this is still the female college senior’s Every[wo]man story, finding yourself humiliated over and over without understanding why. And when her sister says, “It must be boring being so sad all the time,” you realize she just doesn’t understand…. Yet.Show lessBJeanneR
lost in translation
Mubi is unlike any other platform, with movies you can’t find in any other platforms. It opened a whole new world of cinema for me and for that I’m grateful. However, Mubi has one undeniable problem. The subtitles are bad. There’s just no other way to say it. I speak more than one language and noticed the subtitles did not translate correctly what was spoken by the characters. I could also notice this problem while watching movies in languages I didn’t even speak. Some sentences were not translated at all. The character would deliver their line and no subtitles were there to indicate whatever was being said. All of this made me very insecure while watching foreign language movies. I was always wondering if the sentences in the subtitles were actually the sentences being spoken. Or had the meaning - the subtlety of the dialogue - been lost to me? Could I trust these subtitles or were they pointing me in the wrong direction? It was almost impossible for me to know during that armenian movie last week and I also had a hard time guessing during that one in mandarin. However, I keep signing Mubi every month, a bit skeptical of the subtitles, but hopeful nonetheless. Maybe this review will reach the eyes of someone who can fix this problem. Maybe just the eyes of a casual viewer who will now be as suspicious as me. Hope it was helpful either way.Show lessLelecabozza
Tough to Review.
I love the movies they feature on this app.
I’m a writer/director, and the movies they have featured here are phenomenal. The app needs some fine-tuning but I don’t think its out of their wheelhouse so I’m hopeful they will be able to sort some of the following things out:
There is no search function on the app. Sometimes I’m in the mood for a drama. Sometimes I want a comedy. I don’t know all the titles off the top of my head, as much as I wish I did. If you are interested in making movies, producing, directing, or interested in filmmaking as an art, this app is fantastic at finding out what other people are doing, what works well. If you love going off somewhere else for 2 hours, be it sad or happy, scary or intense, the movies featured here will remind you what cinema is for many of us.
But when I have time, at the end of my day and my arthritis is acting up, I still have to fold the laundry, take a shower and catch up on work before 11pm and I was just asked the 974 question... I just need someone else to choose something for me. Please don’t make me do more work. I wanna see how Cannes winners from 2017 pair to 2021, and what people did different. I wanna search by country, or budget, or by narrative method.
Help me make decisions, don’t force me to.
Also they feature movies they don’t have available, but you cannot see that from the thumbnail.Show lessNovinje
For the true film lover who loves to discover
Let’s be real. You’re not going to love every film you ever watch and you won’t love every film mubi puts up on the platform. I can count on one hand the amount of five star films I’ve viewed on mubi among the many I’ve seen so far. I’ve used the service off and on for about a year and I have to say my most recent subscription is likely going to stick. I’ve started getting into more hidden gems and true independently made cinema and mubi is the one mainstream streaming service that is making a concerted effort to bring you movies you would never discover otherwise. On top of all that they are distributing some of the most mesmerizing contemporary cinema themselves (The Worst Person in the World, Drive my Car, Aftersun, Decision to Leave, etc.) and I adore everything they are doing. The only other service I would personally recommend is the Criterion Channel for quality programming but mubi is 100% making a play for that crown in my book!Show lessiamtheeleventh
Favorites folder is gone…
For me and many others users “favorites” folder in menu was a very important feature. It allowed you to keep films you enjoy out of any comparisons and ratings, there was a lot of them that I couldn’t just rate because each of them is very unique. I could easily switch even to this new type of order and new rules, but instead of a notice for an upcoming changes people just lost their folders with their collections. Please bring it back for us at least for a short period of time, just to allow everyone rate their films from favorites folder before you delete it, so that the films won’t be lost!Show lessthe sky trembles
For those who truly appreciate quality films.
This is the best movie platform out there for those who are looking for more than the status quo trash that Hollywood pumps out anymore. This is a well curated selection of excellent films and you’ll be pleasantly surprised each time.Nazareth Hermite
In awe
I have found the one app that scratches my cinema itch. This app has gems I’ve seen before and long forgotten and a plethora of new films that catch you and encapsulate you in their world. My only downside is that when watching on my phone, the movies do not go landscape so I am forced to watch the films in portrait mode. Other than that this app is amazing and can cast to your tv for extra large viewing!!Show lessneoneyelids
