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
| Grade | Count |
| A++ | 2 |
| A+ | 9 |
| A | 26 |
| A- | 10 |
| B+ | 4 |
| B | 17 |
| B- | 12 |
| C+ | 7 |
| C | 5 |
| C- | 8 |
| D+ | 4 |
| D | 6 |
| D- | 2 |
There were 45 movies with an A- or better grade. Here’s the full breakdown.
| Grade | Count |
| A- to A+ | 45 |
| B- to B+ | 33 |
| C- to C+ | 20 |
| D- to D+ | 12 |
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.
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| Grade | Count (57 total movies) |
| A++ | 1 |
| A+ | 3 |
| A | 7 |
| A- | 4 |
| B+ | 1 |
| B | 9 |
| B- | 6 |
| C+ | 6 |
| C | 4 |
| C- | 7 |
| D+ | 1 |
| D | 6 |
| D- | 2 |
Ohhhhh, I’m starting to understand what’s going on. It must be my sister who gave away so many high grades.
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| Grade | Count (41 total movies) |
| A++ | 0 |
| A+ | 4 |
| A | 14 |
| A- | 3 |
| B+ | 3 |
| B | 6 |
| B- | 6 |
| C+ | 0 |
| C | 1 |
| C- | 1 |
| D+ | 3 |
| D | 0 |
| D- | 0 |
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.
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 106.5 |
| 2010 | 106.6 |
| 2011 | 106.8 |
| 2012 | 108.6 |
| 2013 | 110.5 |
| 2014 | 110.4 |
| 2015 | 111.3 |
| 2016 | 109.6 |
| 2017 | 110.2 |
| 2018 | 110.4 |
| 2022 | 116.8 |
| 2023 | 116.3 |
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.
| Year | Value |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 4 |
| 2010 | 1 |
| 2011 | 2 |
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 4 |
| 2014 | 4 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2 |
| 2017 | 3 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2019 | 6 |
| 2020 | 2 |
| 2021 | 8 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2023 | 9 |
All Movie Reviews from 2023
| A++ | Dan Gardner | A Man Called Otto |
| A+ | Christene Johnson | Cocaine Bear |
| A+ | Rob Williams | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 |
| A+ | Christene Johnson | Elemental |
| A+ | Rob Williams | The Great Escaper |
| A+ | Christene Johnson | Trolls Band Together |
| A+ | Dan Gardner | Godzilla Minus One |
| A+ | Rob Williams | Wonka |
| A+ | Steven Blackman | Poor Things |
| A+ | Christene Johnson | The Iron Claw |
| A | Christene Johnson | M3gan |
| A | Dan Gardner | Knock at the Cabin |
| A | Ginger Gardner | Jesus Revolution |
| A | Christene Johnson | Creed III |
| A | Dan Gardner | John Wick: Chapter 4 |
| A | Steve T. | A Good Person |
| A | Christene Johnson | The Super Mario Bros. Movie |
| A | Christene Johnson | The Pope’s Exorcist |
| A | Christene Johnson | Mafia Mamma |
| A | Christene Johnson | Evil Dead Rise |
| A | Christene Johnson | Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. |
| A | Dan Gardner | Sound of Freedom |
| A | Rob Williams | Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One |
| A | Dan Gardner | Barbie |
| A | Dan Gardner | Bottoms |
| A | Christene Johnson | Saw X |
| A | Christene Johnson | The Exorcist: Believer |
| A | Christene Johnson | After Death |
| A | Dan Gardner | The Holdovers |
| A | Rob Williams | Anatomy of a Fall |
| A | Steven Blackman | Dream Scenario |
| A | Christene Johnson | Wish |
| A | Christene Johnson | The Shift |
| A | Dana Simone | RENAISSANCE: A FILm by BEYONCÉ |
| A | Christene Johnson | Migration |
| A | Dana Simone | The Color Purple |
| A- | Dan Gardner | Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse |
| A- | Christene Johnson | Insidious: The Red Door |
| A- | Christene Johnson | Last Voyage of the Demeter |
| A- | Rob Williams | Gran Turismo |
| A- | Christene Johnson | The Nun II |
| A- | Dan Gardner | Dumb Money |
| A- | Dan Gardner | The Creator |
| A- | Rob Williams | The Miracle Club |
| A- | Steven Blackman | Dicks: The Musical |
| A- | Dan Gardner | What Happens Later |
| B+ | Dan Gardner | Paint |
| B+ | Christene Johnson | Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken |
| B+ | Christene Johnson | Talk to Me |
| B+ | Christene Johnson | The Retirement Plan |
| B | Dan Gardner | 80 for Brady |
| B | Jill Florio | Magic Mike’s Last Dance |
| B | Jill Florio | Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania |
| B | Dan Gardner | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves |
| B | Christene Johnson | His Only Son |
| B | Dan Gardner | Air |
| B | Dan Gardner | Book Club: The Next Chapter |
| B | Dan Gardner | Fast X |
| B | Christene Johnson | About My Father |
| B | Christene Johnson | The Boogeyman |
| B | Unassigned | The Flash |
| B | Dana Simone | The Blackening |
| B | Dan Gardner | No Hard Feelings |
| B | Christene Johnson | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem |
| B | Christene Johnson | Five Nights at Freddy’s |
| B | Christene Johnson | Priscilla |
| B | Dan Gardner | The Boys in the Boat |
| B- | Ginger Gardner | Marlowe |
| B- | Dan Gardner | Champions |
| B- | Dan Gardner | Renfield |
| B- | Dan Gardner | Love Again |
| B- | Dan Gardner | Oppenheimer |
| B- | Christene Johnson | The Hill |
| B- | Dan Gardner | The Equalizer 3 |
| B- | Christene Johnson | It Lives Inside |
| B- | Dan Gardner | Freelance |
| B- | Christene Johnson | Inspector Sun |
| B- | Christene Johnson | Saltburn |
| B- | Christene Johnson | Anyone But You |
| C+ | Dan Gardner | Plane |
| C+ | Jill Florio | Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre |
| C+ | Dan Gardner | Shazam! Fury of the Gods |
| C+ | Dan Gardner | Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant |
| C+ | Dan Gardner | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts |
| C+ | Dan Gardner | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny |
| C+ | Dan Gardner | A Haunting in Venice |
| C | Christene Johnson | MISSING |
| C | Dan Gardner | Big George Foreman |
| C | Dan Gardner | Asteroid City |
| C | Dan Gardner | Haunted Mansion |
| C | Dan Gardner | My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 |
| C- | Christene Johnson | Scream VI |
| C- | Dan Gardner | Beau Is Afraid |
| C- | Dan Gardner | Hypnotic |
| C- | Dan Gardner | The Little Mermaid |
| C- | Dan Gardner | Killers of the Flower Moon |
| C- | Dan Gardner | The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes |
| C- | Dan Gardner | Silent Night |
| C- | Dan Gardner | Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom |
| D+ | Christene Johnson | Infinity Pool |
| D+ | Christene Johnson | The Machine |
| D+ | Dan Gardner | Meg 2: The Trench |
| D+ | Christene Johnson | Thanksgiving |
| D | Dan Gardner | Kandahar |
| D | Dan Gardner | Expend4bles |
| D | Dan Gardner | The Marvels |
| D | Dan Gardner | Next Goal Wins |
| D | Dan Gardner | Napoleon |
| D | Dan Gardner | Ferrari |
| D- | Dan Gardner | 65 |
| D- | Dan Gardner | Blue Beetle |
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