MUBI: A Highly Recommended Movie App with Unreliable Offline Viewing and Poor UI

In these age of a vast sea of streaming choices, often browsing until giving up, it’s quite wonderful to have a more streamlined selection to pick from.
Try it!

There will never be a better streaming service than MUBI because they’ve fully figured it out and present the most enormous, well curated and well conceived system for serious cinephiles. Nothing else is even close!

Eclectic, wide ranging selection that surfaces vital but neglected films

…otherwise 5 stars

As in the title

the best

So much of available motion picture content is so boring. What we watch on MUBI is always stimulating. Thank you for existing!

Why is there a lot of catalog movies that can’t play? Is there a way to see them?

Mubi seems to now work for Apple: they force users to update to new iOS before Apple debugs it. Mubi used to be an enlightened distributor of independent cinema, but as soon as they discovered that they could be profitable, they became like everyone else. And like everyone else, they will keep getting worse until they stop being profitable.

MUBI is that friend who says "Hey, you gotta see this film I just watched, it was amazing". And then goes a step further and hands it to you. Everyday. Exquisitely curated selections delivered to you via a rock solid, easily navigated app. What more could you want? Popcorn?

I just enjoy the format and films.

Worth every penny!
It is a home for curated challenging obscure films from all over the globe.
A new film is added daily.
I have yet to find a film that I have not been inspired by.
This IS&T he Criterion Channel make the perfect pair!

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.

I subscribed to watch a specific title which mubi dhowed it had. After much frustration, it appears it does not have it in its catalogue

So-so selection of films, though they're getting better.

App and TV streaming is clunky, however. If you try to fast forward, it freezes and you have to start from the beginning of the film.

Separately, social media account never responds to questions, whether to help with the service or to answer questions like, "Hey, what film is that video from?" Nada.

This is why I can't really commit to this platform.

Yes tres veces yes ... lo mejor

If David Lynch did a gay film

Make it make sense.

The movies are good but I can’t watch them.

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.

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.

Mubi has changed my life -- and expanded my world.

love how the lineup changes everyday! theres always something to watch

Wonderfully curated

In the app there’s No option for lists or any recommended films. Terribly formatted