Movie Reviews API

Name: Movie Reviews API API
Brand: Movie Reviews API
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For Agents

Search NYT movie reviews by keyword, filter Critics' Picks, and look up NYT film critic profiles.

Quickstart

Get started with Movie Reviews API in minutes using your preferred integration method.

# Add to your MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf)
{
  "jentic": {
    "url": "https://api.jentic.com/mcp",
    "auth": "oauth"
  }
}

# Then ask your agent:
"search NYT movie reviews"

# → Jentic returns the GET /events tool with parameter schema, agent executes.

Capabilities

What an agent can do with Movie Reviews API API.

Search NYT movie reviews by free-text keyword across title and headline

Filter to NYT Critics' Pick reviews using the critics-pick query parameter

Restrict reviews by opening date or publication date range

Retrieve the roster of NYT film critics with bio and image

Look up a single NYT film critic by reviewer name

GET STARTED

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View OpenAPI Document

The New York Times Movie Reviews API exposes the NYT film criticism archive through three GET endpoints. Agents can search reviews by keyword, filter by Critics' Pick status, opening date, or publication date, and look up the roster of NYT film critics with their bio and profile image. Each review record includes the film title, MPAA rating, byline, headline, summary short, link to the full review, and an opening-date flag, supporting film discovery, recommendation, and editorial integrations.

Use Cases

Patterns agents use Movie Reviews API API for, with concrete tasks.

★ Movie Recommendation Feed

Build a recommendation feed that surfaces NYT Critics' Picks released within a chosen window. The /reviews/search.json endpoint accepts a critics-pick=Y filter alongside opening-date or publication-date ranges, returning ranked review records with summary short, MPAA rating, and a link to the full NYT review.

Call /reviews/search.json?critics-pick=Y&opening-date=2024-01-01;2024-12-31 and return film titles with MPAA rating, summary short, and review URL.

Film Detail Enrichment

Enrich a film detail page with its NYT review when one exists. The search endpoint accepts a query parameter against title, returning the most relevant NYT review with byline, headline, summary short, and full URL. Useful for streaming guides, cinema sites, and entertainment news pages.

Call /reviews/search.json?query=Oppenheimer and return the byline, headline, summary short, and review URL of the matching review.

Critic Profile Browser

Build a critics directory listing every active NYT film critic with bio, headshot image, and link to that critic's reviews. The /critics/{resource-type}.json endpoint with resource-type=full returns the roster, while resource-type set to a critic name returns a single profile.

Call /critics/full.json and return each critic's name, bio paragraph, and seo_name for profile-page slugs.

Agent-Driven Movie Lookup via Jentic

An AI movie recommendation agent uses Jentic to find NYT reviews at runtime when a user asks about a film's critical reception. Jentic returns the matching /reviews/search.json operation, the agent loads the schema and executes the call without manually wiring auth or query parameters.

Search Jentic for 'search NYT movie reviews', load the /reviews/search.json operation, and execute it with query='Killers of the Flower Moon'.

Key Endpoints

3 endpoints — the new york times movie reviews api exposes the nyt film criticism archive through three get endpoints.

METHOD

PATH

DESCRIPTION

GET

/reviews/search.json

Search NYT movie reviews by keyword, date, or Critics' Pick

GET

/reviews/{resource-type}.json

Get reviews scoped to a resource type or critic

GET

/critics/{resource-type}.json

Look up NYT film critics individually or as a roster

GET

/reviews/search.json

Search NYT movie reviews by keyword, date, or Critics' Pick

GET

/reviews/{resource-type}.json

Get reviews scoped to a resource type or critic

GET

/critics/{resource-type}.json

Look up NYT film critics individually or as a roster

Why though Jentic?

Three things that make agents converge on Jentic-routed access.

Credential isolation

The NYT api-key is stored encrypted in the Jentic vault and injected into the api-key query parameter at execution time. A single credential authenticates every NYT API in the workspace, so rotating once updates Movie Reviews, Books, Top Stories, and the others together.

Intent-based discovery

Agents search Jentic for 'search NYT movie reviews' or 'find NYT Critics Picks' and Jentic returns the matching operation with its parameter schema, so the agent calls /reviews/search.json without reading the date-range syntax in NYT docs.

Time to first call

Direct integration: a few hours to wire the api-key, learn the YYYY-MM-DD;YYYY-MM-DD date-range syntax, and parse the review payload. Through Jentic: under 15 minutes.

Related APIs

Alternatives and complements available in the Jentic catalogue.

Complementary

NYT Books API

Sister NYT API for book reviews and Best Sellers alongside film criticism.

Use when the user asks about books rather than movies — the same NYT credential covers both.

Complementary

NYT Top Stories API

Includes the Movies section front alongside review-level data.

Combine with Movie Reviews to surface today's NYT film coverage alongside Critics' Picks.

Complementary

NYT Semantic API

Resolves film titles and director names to NYT controlled-vocabulary tags.

Use to enrich a movie record with the NYT person tag for the director before linking out to article coverage.

FAQs

Specific to using Movie Reviews API API through Jentic.

What authentication does the NYT Movie Reviews API use?

Authentication is an API key sent as the api-key query parameter on every endpoint. Provision a key at developer.nytimes.com. Through Jentic the credential is held in the vault and injected at execution time, so the agent never sees the raw key.

How do I find only NYT Critics' Picks?

Call GET /reviews/search.json with critics-pick=Y. Combine it with opening-date or publication-date ranges in the format YYYY-MM-DD;YYYY-MM-DD to scope to recent releases. The response returns review records with summary short, byline, headline, and the full review URL.

What are the rate limits for the NYT Movie Reviews API?

NYT enforces 500 requests per day and 5 requests per minute per API key, shared across all NYT developer APIs. Cache critic rosters since they change rarely and cache search results for the publication week to stay well within the limit.

How do I look up reviews by a specific NYT critic through Jentic?

Search Jentic for 'get NYT movie reviews by critic', load the /reviews/{resource-type}.json operation, and execute it with resource-type set to the critic's seo_name returned by /critics/full.json. The response returns that critic's reviews.

Is the NYT Movie Reviews API free to use?

Yes. NYT offers the Movie Reviews service at no cost on the developer portal for non-commercial use within published rate limits. Commercial or high-volume use requires direct contact with the NYT licensing team.

Can I retrieve full review text through this API?

No. The API returns review metadata, byline, headline, and a summary short, but not the full critic text. To display the full review, use the link field to direct readers to nytimes.com where the article is hosted.