Zagat Movie Guide

by Zagat Survey

For many years, ZAGAT Survey has reported on the shared experiences of diners and travellers. It has since expanded to cover entertaining, nightlife, shopping and golf. Now ZAGAT brings you the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570069964
• ISBN13: 9781570069963
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Zagat Survey
• Length: 524 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.0" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Now we don't get so lost at Blockbuster!

Although Zagat's Movie Guide is short and not entirely complete, it is easy to take along when attempting to pick out a rental movie. There is a lot of information in the guide and it is very quick and easy to use. It is perfect for my purposes even though it is small.

A shorter movie guide: maybe only the best movies.

I have several behemoth movie guides, but Zagat has its own advantages. The indexing of the movies is terrific: things like best movies by director, decade and genre. (Maltin until the latest edition had no director's index! Hello?) Then too, its shorter movie list allows me to page through and see movies I want to buy. (Try that with the big Martin or Maltin guides. Impossible.) So while Zagat is not comprehensive, it is very useful. And read up on how you can be part of the Zagat survey. (I don't know how you could be a reviewer in those bigger books.)

250 MORE MOVIES THAN LAST YEAR

I just received this 2004 update of Zagat's Movie Guide.In my review of their original guide (2003), I did discuss the basics of the survey, and how to get the most out of it for choosing movies to see and/or rent. For this review, I'll discuss the changes and give a little additional information.As a reminder, the movies included in this book are all there because movie-goers who were surveyed picked them. Some 7,900 movie viewers who had seen over 900,000 films in the previous year did the picking.Changes from last year include an addition of 256 new films, up from 1,000 to 1,256. Also new is a section of the top rated new releases. There are 40 films included in this category which range from drama to musical to action to documentary to . . . . In my opinion, this list alone, along with comments by people (not critics) who have seen the films, makes the book worth while.As in the previous edition, there is an alphabetical list of all the movies included as well as 55 lists (up from 50 last year) by various category.In my opinion, this is a valuable resource when one is planning to rent a movie that has the kind of values that keeps people coming back.