Yes.
I saw Justice League using it last Thursday, the night before it opened (many theaters around here play new movies the night before opening).
This next bit is in spoiler tags not because it’s a spoiler for anything, but because it’s a lot of text about how MoviePass works and so people can easily skip it.
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Movies are pre-approved before loading into the app. You can only see 2D movies, so no 3D, IMAX, or special presentations like Fathom Events, though once in a great while a Fathom movie will be approved. I don’t know if it was a mistake but if a showtime is “hot” I’ll take advantage and have never been called out on it.
You can only use MoviePass for one movie a day, but they don’t have to be 24 hours apart. I could see a movie at 10:00pm then use MoviePass again for a movie at 1:00am. I’ve never tried seeing movies that close together but it should work in theory. I’ve often seen movies at, say, 8 or 9pm, then seen a movie at 6 or 7pm the next day.
You must have a smartphone, either iPhone or Android. If you don’t have a smartphone you should close this thread now. You have to use an app, and if you can’t use an app you can’t use your MoviePass card. There’s no getting around it.
You should have a data plan. If you’re on WiFi you’d better make sure there’s a McDonalds or Starbucks or other reliable WiFi source right next to the theater, because you have to “Check in” to the movie you’re seeing and you have to be within 100 yards of the theater to check in. So you could theoretically use an iPod Touch, for example, but I wouldn’t try it.
First you join and pay the subscription fee. Temporarily they’re only offering a yearly rate of $89.95, but normally it’s $9.95 a month.
Then you wait for your card. It could take a week, it could take several weeks. Their customer service, once excellent, was sent into disarray when they lowered the price to $9.95 and hundreds of thousands of people all joined in the space of a few days. It took them months to recover and they’re still mopping up. Be patient though, and don’t throw away any plain white envelopes you get in the mail.
The card itself is an empty debit card.
You download the MoviePass app to your smartphone and register the card in the app once you get your card.
Once your card is registered, go see a movie. Log into the app, use the '“hamburger menu” to choose your location. Use the menu again to choose your theater. They will be listed in the order of proximity.
Click on the theater you’re going to and the list of movies playing there, and their showtimes, will appear. Approved movies will show the times in red (on my Android app, anyway). Non-approved movies have their showtimes in grey and the buttons are not hot, so nothing happens if you click on (touch) them.
Find the movie and showtime you want that’s approved. They used to say you couldn’t check in more than 30 minutes before the start of the movie but they must have relaxed that a little. I’ve only tested it a couple of times, checking in around 45 minutes before, and wasn’t called out.
Click on the showtime and it takes you to a page to check in. Don’t check in until you’re sure the movie you want is not sold out. If I’m going to a big movie I usually wait to check in until I’m at the box office, standing in front of the ticket agent. I have the app all ready to go so when I’m told it’s not sold out I check in. If I’m told it’s sold out I use the Back button to back out of the Check in page and rethink my options. So no, I’m not going to be able to see a prime time showing of The Last Jedi. I’ll try at a weird time. I saw a 6 pm Justice League and it was only 3/4 full. It took me a few days to see Thor: Ragnarok but I didn’t try for any odd times.
You’ll get a screen that says Purchase your ticket.
When you see that you’ll know that MoviePass has loaded the price of the ticket onto the MoviePass debit card. You don’t have to tell them the price via the app. MoviePass will know. Just have the ticket agent swipe the card just like any normal credit/debit card, and you should be good to go.
Next time you look at your app use the hamburger menu and choose Viewing History, and the movie you just saw should be listed. It’s a fun little perk though it might go away. It’s a relic from the days when you could only see a movie once using MoviePass, a way to remind yourself that you’ve already seen that movie using MP. That’s no longer a rule. You can use MP for a movie as many times as you want, as long as it’s on a different day.[/spoiler]There’s more but I’m tired of typing on my phone. Any question, just ask.