Nice! Yeah, I wish letterboxd was free somehow without ads and they made their beta api public.

Yeah, I bet there's not a great standard for normalization/corrections of tiles, making a distinction of like when a movie was made and when a movie was released and translations and imports.

Good work.

I ended up using the director and cast that are listed for most reviews on Ebert's site for matching the right movie. Even that required some tricks due to spelling errors or differences in how names were listed. I then flagged any matches that weren't unique or where the title wasn't similar enough for me to manually review. I think I only had to double-check about a hundred or so.

I didn't use the letterboxd api. Instead, I generated csv files for the letterboxd importer. I then did a csv export from their site I could reconcile to look for import errors.

Trivia: Ebert reviewed a few adult films which I couldn't import to letterboxd because the site officially doesn't allow those.

BTW, it's only $19/year for an account. I have my own account I pay for which follows the re2 account. That way I can easily see any of the re2 reviews for movies in my own watchlist.

Yep, I caved and got an account last month too

I've added Buster Keaton's silent films from 1920-1929 since those are the ones Ebert is referencing in his review. That brings the total number of Great Movies available on Prime up to 43.