Breakdown of Movie Grades from the RunPee Peeps

It sure doesn’t seem like this past year was a good year for movies, but the numbers don’t lie. The single most common grade we Peeps gave to a movie in 2023 was an A, with 26. The second most common was a B, with 17.

Grades given by Peeps

There were 45 movies with an A- or better grade. Here’s the full breakdown.

I thought I was being overly critical of movies this year. I’ll try harder in 2024. 🙂

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Here’s a breakdown of movie grades by individual Peep.

Dan

Ohhhhh, I’m starting to understand what’s going on. It must be my sister who gave away so many high grades.

Nearly half of the movies that RunPee Sis saw in 2023 got an A- or better grade. (21 with an A- or better and 23 for all other grades.) She’s such a pushover. 🙂

There were only 11 other movies added by anyone other than my sister or me; all but one of those movies got an A- grade or better.

Movie length by year

There is a popular assumption that movies are getting longer every year. Yes, it is true but not by as much as you might think. In the past 14 years, the average movie runtime has only increased by 10 minutes. In the past 10 years the average runtime has only increased by 6 minutes.

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dd33803, 07/05/2023

This is a great app. I wish more people would support it

This app provides info about movies, reviews, ratings from people who have seen it before and after viewing. It has links to info about the movies. It let’s you know when there will be a lull in the action and how long it will last. If you want to know what happens during that time, you can check the brief synopsis (you have to click a link, so no accidental spoilers). It has a timer you can set (silent) to alert you to a break. It also tells you whether there is anything extra during or after the credits. It’s really a wonderful app. I’ve subscribed for a couple of years to support the developers, but I noticed some of the links to provide feedback didn’t seem to work today. They also made it free, with voluntary donations to see the pee-times. If you haven’t tried it, I encourage you to do so, and subscribe if you like it. I really hope the app is supported so it can continue to be maintained!

Developers note: RunPee doesn’t make much money but it supports itself nicely. Donations are appreciated, but not required. We’ll add as many movies to the database as we can until there are no more movie theaters.

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Movie Runtime Count by Year

The chart above breaks down the number of movies each year with runtimes between 90-99 minutes, 100-109 minutes, and so forth.You can see from the dashed-red-line that the 100-109 range is the most common movie length. That’s the case for every year except for 2012 when the most common was 90-99 minutes, and 2016 and 2018 when the 110-119 range was most common.

Number of movies each year with a runtime over 2 1/2 hours.

You can see from the data below that starting after 2020 the number of movies each year with a runtime over 2 ½ hours has more than doubled. Prior to 2020 there are 33 movies with a runtime over 2 ½ hours, for an average of 3/year. After 2020 there have been an average of 7 movies a year with a 2 ½+ runtime. That’s probably what makes it seem like movies are getting longer. However, there’s more to it than just that. Seven movies alone are not going to increase the average runtime for movies in a year all that much.

All Movie Reviews from 2023

Dan Gardner

Creator and developer of the RunPee app. When something doesn’t work right in the app it’s pretty much his fault. 🙂

Aspiring author. Would like to finish his “Zombie Revelations” trilogy if he could break away for working on RunPee and the cottage he’s building for RunPee Mom.