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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 48 movie theaters
Best movie theaters in Houston
The 10 most notable movie theaters in Houston, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Amc Spring 10
20115 Holzwarth Rd
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.228, percentile 100 of 48
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2
Amc Houston 8
510 Texas St
543 m from Houston station, rail
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.228, percentile 97.87 of 48
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3
The Grand Conroe by Santikos
4029 Interstate 45 N
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.227, percentile 95.74 of 48
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4
Rice Cinema
Rice University, Sarofim Hall, 6100 Main St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.188, percentile 93.62 of 48
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5
ShowBiz Cinemas Kingwood
350 Northpark Dr
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.159, percentile 91.49 of 48
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6
The Grand 14
4029 Interstate 45 N
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.159, percentile 89.36 of 48
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7
Pearland Premiere Lux 6
5050 Broadway St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.159, percentile 87.23 of 48
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8
MFAH Brown Auditorium Theater
1001 Bissonnet St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.159, percentile 85.11 of 48
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Spring 10-Sony Theatre
20115 Holzwarth Rd
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.159, percentile 82.98 of 48
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10
Reel Luxury Cinemas
9595 Six Pines Dr Ste 8200
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.159, percentile 80.85 of 48
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).