Let us take you back to the movie summer of 1996, where the breadth of options were diverse and exciting. In the space of three short months, Tom Cruise produces his first blockbuster, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in one of his final action hits, Robert Altman directs one of his most personal films and biggest financial failures and Nicole Holofcener makes her first feature. Below, we highlight ten films from the summer of 1996 that were hits with a lasting cultural imprint, and ten that may not have hit at first, but are worthy of rediscovery. Read more about Dan Mecca’s selections on Journal. The Craft Twister The Rock Mission: Impossible Eraser The Hunchback of Notre Dame Independence Day Trainspotting A Time to Kill Matilda ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
From sublime coming-of-age dramas to strikingly ambitious queer odysseys and exhilaratingly bonkers science-fiction epics, our crew selects fifteen highlights from the 2026 Cannes Film Festival to add to your watchlist. Read what we have to say about each film in the full story on Journal. All of a Sudden The Black Ball Clarissa Club Kid Coward Dua Hope I'll Be Gone in June I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning La Gradiva ...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Every film ever spotlighted in Watchlist This!, our monthly Journal feature highlighting a selection of watchlist-worthy titles that are potentially slipping under the radar. All films here are listed in reverse chronological order according to article date, with the most recent selections always at the top. Read more about this month’s selections on Journal here. Blue Film Renoir The Currents Time and Water Our Land The Mountain Two Women Omaha Fiume o Morte! Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence ...plus 170 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Since the birth of cinema, mainstream filmmakers, acclaimed auteurs and European enfants terribles alike have understood the big-screen potential of newborn life. It’s no wonder films starring babies span every categorization and sometimes seem like a subgenre all their own. This month sees the big-screen debut of Din Grogu, known far and wide as Baby Yoda, in Jon Favreau’s Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu. All this Baby Yoda talk got us thinking about what other on-screen infants have been capable of commanding such awe and appreciation from audiences. They don’t stay babies forever, we admit, but the most iconic infants in cinema history have all burned brightly enough that you can rest assured that their pint-sized performances will be immortalized for all time. Without further ado, here are twenty beloved babies from the big screen. Read more about Isaac Feldberg’s selections on Journal. Raising Arizona Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance 2001: A Space Odyssey The Lion King The Incredibles The Hangover Broker Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Willow Annette ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Letterboxd Video Store is live! Here’s a list of every film that you can rent now with our major new feature. This list will be updated regularly as we add more films for rental, along with removing select titles whose availability will be for a limited time only. (Regions and prices vary by title, head to Video Store to see what’s available in your location.) Want to know more about Letterboxd Video Store? Check out our Journal primer here for the most pressing information, and our full FAQ here. The True Beauty of Being Bitten by a Tick Eugene the Marine Amoeba Lemonade Blessing Palestine 36 Mārama Dead Lover Stolen Kingdom Desert of Namibia The Legend of Hei 2 ...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 235 Get a Clue (best film detectives) Knives Out The Silence of the Lambs Se7en The Batman Who Framed Roger Rabbit Chinatown The Nice Guys Zodiac Hot Fuzz The Long Goodbye ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Kering is hosting a Women In Motion Talk today with Julianne Moore, this year’s Women In Motion Award Laureate at the Cannes Film Festival. The Big Lebowski Boogie Nights The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 Magnolia Crazy, Stupid, Love. The Lost World: Jurassic Park Children of Men The Fugitive Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Supergirl Scary Movie Disclosure Day The Death of Robin Hood Another World The Furious Power Ballad The Birthday Party Masters of the Universe Toxic ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
The erotic thriller has been a pervasive entity in cinema, domestic and abroad, for over forty years now, so one starter pack didn’t feel like enough space to devote to the wily nature of the genre, especially with so many independently produced and/or internationally financed films that are ripe for discovery for so many people. This second list focuses on films logged by between twenty and 50,000 members on Letterboxd, offering a deeper dive into the genre for those who have made their way through the initial twenty or, perhaps especially, those who had seen them before the list even dropped. Read more about Justin LaLiberty’s selections on Journal. Crimes of Passion Dream Lover Femme Fatale Poison Ivy The Last Seduction Double Lover Jade The Comfort of Strangers In the Cut Passion ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
As the 2026 Cannes Film Festival kicks off this week, here’s a look back at the films that competed in the main competition section for the Palme d’Or ten years ago. How many have you seen? American Honey Aquarius Elle From the Land of the Moon Graduation The Handmaiden It's Only the End of the World I, Daniel Blake Julieta The Last Face ...plus 11 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Over the past years, with film and television studios alike seeking to mine the realm of video game storytelling, an abundance of game adaptations have been announced, released, and sometimes abandoned. Just this year alone, we have had a Super Mario movie with Galaxy, yet another attempt at a Silent Hill adaptation with Return to Silent Hill and the indie hit Iron Lung (itself directed by game streamer Markiplier), among others, with so many readaptations (another Resident Evil, another Mortal Kombat, another Street Fighter) on the way. In honor of all the crazy attempts at bringing video games to life and telling tales that revolve around games, be they adapations or orginals, this list is here to dive into just some of the weird and wonderful ways that the medium has seeped right back into that of cinema. Read more about Juan Barquin’s selections on Journal. Super Mario Bros. Mortal Kombat Parasite Eve Pikachu's Vacation eXistenZ Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within Resident Evil DOA: Dead or Alive Animal Crossing: The Movie Summer Wars ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 234 In Vogue (best contemporary costuming in film) Clueless Barbie The Devil Wears Prada La La Land The Royal Tenenbaums Mean Girls Knives Out Legally Blonde Heathers Kill Bill: Vol. 1 ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
It’s time to dust off your watchlists and readjust your bowties: the time has come once again for another edition of the Cannes Film Festival. The biggest fortnight of the year for movie lovers is right around the corner, and this 79th edition is set to be a doozy. We’re spoiled for choice when it comes to European auteurs (Pawlikowski! Zvyagintsev! Dhont! Kreutzer!) and Japanese heavyweights (Hamaguchi, Kore-eda, Kurosawa, oh my!), as well as a deeply exciting slate of diverse new talent whose films we can’t wait to sink our teeth into. From stories of washed-up New York club promoters and a Catholic-Romanian family causing chaos in a tiny Norwegian village, to a Lagos-set riff on Mrs. Dalloway and a Birmingham-based picture of lifelong friendship, it’s a good time to go to the movies. Read Ella Kemp’s breakdown on Journal for more on these fifteen titles we’re looking forward to. Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma The Man I Love Fatherland Fjord All of a Sudden Coward Adieu monde cruel I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning Full Phil Hope ...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Since 2011, the Letterboxd crew has chosen up to six new releases to spotlight on the front page, ranging from the biggest blockbusters to festival favorites to deep cut indies. This is a list of all films that have been selected as a crew pick as of May, 2026. Obsession Backrooms Silent Friend Power Ballad I Love Boosters Tuner The Drama I Swear Mother Mary Wasteman ...plus 559 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Updated each month, Katie Rife highlights a selection of the best classic titles hitting physical media or with new restorations opening in theaters. Read more about this month’s selections on Journal here. Speed Racer The Headless Woman The Taste of Tea Fresh Kill Taxidermia Boyz n the Hood Poetic Justice Baby Boy Cave of Forgotten Dreams Wandering Ginza Butterfly ...plus 36 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
David Cronenberg is the king of body horror. Since the 1970s, the Canadian filmmaker has ruled over a subset of horror films that focus on the human body and all the nightmarish ways it can transform. Cronenberg’s approach to the body is transgressive, and frequently erotic; he imagines possibilities that are equally intriguing and repellent, from the sexually transmitted parasites of Shivers to the revolutionary plastic-eaters in Crimes of the Future. But while Cronenberg might have perfected body horror, he didn’t invent it. Body horror is embedded into the sci-fi genre, which was launched by the reanimation of a stitched-together collection of dead body parts in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. There are also whispers of the concept in H.G. Wells’ novel The Island of Doctor Moreau. But body horror really came into its own in the ’50s, when a wave of sci-fi/horror hybrids like The Fly and The Blob converted atomic anxieties into grotesque monsters. Another peak arrived with the gross-out ’80s, when artists like Stan Winston, Rob Bottin, Greg Nicotero and the delightfully named Screaming Mad George elevated the art of practical effects to gloriously disgusting heights. For the purposes of this starter pack, we’ll concentrate on the drippy, goopy, outrageous and edgy as we go elbow-deep into the squishy world of body horror beyond Cronenberg. Read the full breakdown of titles from Katie Rife over on Journal. Island of Lost Souls The Fly Eyes Without a Face Matango The Incredible Melting Man Invasion of the Body Snatchers Possession The Thing Re-Animator The Blob ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
The fashion industry has always seemed to exist on its own planet. Historically, it’s been regarded as this rarefied, impenetrable bubble. Because of this, filmmakers have long been attracted to its cliquish glitz and elite cultural cachet, with countless attempts to synthesise the fashion world into movies. These are films that understand fashion innately. Films that know fashion doesn’t actually exist in a vacuum: it influences and guides our lives on a daily basis. A good fashion film, whether narrative or nonfiction, requires not just impressive aesthetics; it needs to possess the same critical eye that so many of the designers apply to their work. Crucially, a fashion film has to have a point of view. For the purposes of this starter pack, we’re considering films about fashion, as opposed to films that simply offer excellent costume design. These are films, presented chronologically, that have helped audiences reevaluate the industry; that have fed back into fashion and influenced it; that tug at preconceptions; that, in some cases, downright despise it; that ultimately lift the curtain on the world’s most glamorous sausage factory. Read the full breakdown of titles from Patrick Sproull over on Journal. Funny Face Darling Blow-Up Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? Puzzle of a Downfall Child Model The Store Caprice Prêt-à-Porter Unzipped ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
With Mother Mary in theaters now from A24, writer-director David Lowery shares ten films that influenced his latest feature. Read the notes for Lowery’s words on each selection. McQueen I love Alexander McQueen, and I love this movie. With Mother Mary, I wanted to make something that made me feel the way so many of McQueen’s dresses make me feel; this documentary helped me understand why. Autumn Sonata This is the Ingmar Bergman film I find myself returning to the most often. I watched it over and over as we prepared for Mother Mary, and then we screened it for the cast and crew in Germany. My movie is far more sentimental than this one, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be able to face pain as unflinchingly as Bergman, but I felt like we were at the very least glancing in a similar direction for a second or two. The making-of documentary, which is twice as long as the film itself, is also mandatory viewing. Personal Shopper Fashion and ghosts! This movie speaks with a vocabulary I understand deeply. The shape of this film is eternally beguiling. It is always shifting, every time I watch it, impossible to fully grasp. One of the great movies of this young century. Hedwig and the Angry Inch A very important movie in my life, especially in my relationship with my own mother. Anne Hathaway and I talked a lot about Midnight Radio when we were trying to come up with Mother Mary’s sound. Would Mother Mary have played at the Menses Fair in her youth? Absolutely, and that one goth kid would have loved her. The Baby of Mâcon Maybe my favorite Greenaway film? Certainly the most unpleasant and difficult to watch, but the scale and choreography is staggering, and its message is bitter and evergreen. I am not a cynical person but I appreciate Greenaway’s scorn. I screened The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover for the cast and crew of Mother Mary—it did not go over well! Thank goodness I didn’t show them this one! But I definitely watched it on my own and tried to figure out how he and Sacha Vierney moved the camera the way they did. Marry Me This movie opened right as Mother Mary started to come together, and I was determined to see every movie that involved pop music performances for research. This was the perfect way to start! We need more movies like this in movie theaters. Portrait of a Lady on Fire Another one of the greatest films of the century. I thought about this movie a lot when I was trying to convince myself not to move the camera for the first 30 minutes of Mother Mary. Céline Sciamma taught me a lot about restraint (a lesson I didn’t necessarily heed). Pina Here is where we talk about dance, and this incredible testament to the work of Pina Bausch, which I looked at when I was trying to figure out how to capture the dance scenes in our film. It felt very close to home, too, once we decided to shoot in Germany (Cologne, to be exact, where Bausch won her first major prize in 1969). I wish I could have seen this movie in 3D. The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant I think it’s on the Grand Budapest Hotel commentary track that Wes Anderson quizzes Roman Coppola and Kent Jones on the greatest fashion film of all time. The answer, of course, is this film, which also features one of the best sets of all time, and one of the best tertiary characters in Irm Hermann’s Marlene. A key jumping-off text for Mother Mary. Peter Pan & Wendy It is perhaps uncouth to put one of my own movies on this list, but Mother Mary wouldn’t exist without this film. Making Peter Pan & Wendy was one of the most meaningful experiences of my life. No one else will ever feel about it the way I do, nor should they, but I have to acknowledge its import. My memories of making it contain exhilarating highs and devastating lows, but in the years since we finished it, all of those feelings have settled down and I’m left with great affection for it, and what it represents to me personally. There are probably a lot of very direct parallels between this movie and Mother Mary that I haven’t even picked up on yet.
Consensus for Showdown № 233 Actor’s Director (best directorial debuts by actors) Get Out The Night of the Hunter Booksmart A Star Is Born This Is Spinal Tap Citizen Kane Ordinary People Eighth Grade Promising Young Woman Monkey Man ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
14 years ago today, Letterboxd launched in beta. These are the first 20 films logged on that day. 👀 How many have you seen? Swingers Seeking Justice Caramel Starship Troopers Iron Man The Last Picture Show Puss in Boots Surrogates The Gunfighter Best Worst Movie ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
It’s so confusing sometimes to be an artist. In David Lowery’s Mother Mary, Anne Hathaway plays the titular troubled pop diva, who calls upon her estranged friend and former fashion designer Sam Anselm (Michaela Coel) to make a dress for her upcoming tour, drawing both of them back into a complex psychosexual affair. A24’s new release is just the latest film in a surprisingly long line to reckon with the destructive price of fame by focusing on a fictional pop idol in crisis; our Letterboxd community is already eagerly assessing where it falls along that cinematic spectrum. Without further ado, here’s our guide to a selection of dark portraits of pop stars and rock divas guaranteed to deliver thrills, chills and a playlist’s worth of insidiously catchy earworms. Read the full list breakdown on Journal from Isaac Feldberg. Mother Mary Smile 2 The Nowhere Inn Her Smell Vox Lux White: Melody of Death Queen of the Damned All About Lily Chou-Chou Perfect Blue Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains
The Devil Wears Prada 2 Passenger Corporate Retreat The Currents Mortal Kombat II The Breadwinner Remarkably Bright Creatures Tuner The Sheep Detectives Backrooms ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
You, Me & Tuscany star Regé-Jean Page had the right idea when he recently declared that Black love is “defined by joy”—so why is it so hard to find romantic comedies that actually fit that brief? Fortunately, the new rom-com seems poised to mend fences when it hits theaters this month, joining a small-but-mighty class of Black-led love stories that are just as swoonworthy as they are laugh-out-loud funny. Below are the twenty most essential of the bunch, each an exercise in joy in its own right. Read more about Lyvie Scott’s selections on Journal. Brown Sugar Boomerang Deliver Us from Eva Rye Lane Just Wright Hitch Love Don't Co$t a Thing Two Can Play That Game The Best Man Claudine ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 232 Ready Player One (best video-game adaptation) The Super Mario Bros. Movie Pokémon Detective Pikachu Sonic the Hedgehog 3 Sonic the Hedgehog Sonic the Hedgehog 2 Pokémon: The First Movie Mortal Kombat Silent Hill Resident Evil Lara Croft: Tomb Raider ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
With Erupcja in US theaters this week, director Pete Ohs shares 11 films that influenced his “anti-romantic” comedy starring Charli xcx, Lena Góra, Will Madden, and Jeremy O. Harris. Read the details for Ohs’s accompanying notes for each pick. Before Sunrise The romance + an American filmmaker doing something in Europe. Stranger Than Paradise The cuts to black, the simplicity, the style. Alice in the Cities The way a film can give the audience a chance to experience different places. The Zone of Interest Polish-adjacent cinema. The close ups of flowers and dissolving to a block of color. Y Tu Mamá También Apparently Cuarón also arrived at his voice over via Jules et Jim + playful adventure + homoerotic love triangles. Thelma & Louise Two women with a strong connection making their own rules. Provincial Actors Polish cinema. The raw purity of a first feature. All These Sleepless Nights First time I saw this I didn’t even realize it was Polish. This is a cinematic, youthful, modern Warsaw. A Woman Is a Woman Colors! Playfulness! A complete disregard of rules! La Pointe Courte More first film naïveté and freedom. A young couple at the end of a relationship traveling to a town and walking around ✅✅✅✅ ...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
A list of the top ten films most obsessively rewatched by Letterboxd members at New Year’s, between December 30 and January 2. The date range is intended to account for global time zones, plus the family time and/or festive debauchery that cause annual traditions to shift around here and there. In other words: these ten films have been rewatched the most, by the most members, on these dates—regardless of genre. Read more on Journal. When Harry Met Sally... Dinner for One Phantom Thread The Apartment The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King New Year's Evil New Year's Eve La La Land
Now that we’ve hung up our spurs and cowboy hats after another bustling edition of the South by Southwest Film Festival, it’s time to look back at some of the highlights we saw, courtesy of our on-the-ground correspondents Annie Lyons and Jenni Kaye. More than half of our crew’s ten festival favorites tap into the coming-of-age genre; they run the gamut from a Gen-Z stoner comedy that somehow gets away with [redacted] to an intimate, poetic look at trans boyhood. Elsewhere: the return of mumblecore legend Joe Swanberg, a scrappy Texas love letter to the slasher genre and the story of an animatronic fox voiced by Olivia Colman. Looking beyond the starry headliners, here are our crew’s ten favorite world premieres from SXSW 2026. Read our full thoughts on each pick on Journal here. Pizza Movie Summer 2000: The X-Cetra Story The Sun Never Sets The Fox My Brother's Killer Their Town Brian Adam's Apple American Dollhouse Crash Land
Decades later, the very concept of the “New Hollywood” movement remains tenuous—if not outright ambiguous. Its origins, however, are fairly well-established. As the 1960s progressed, and as American culture at large became more welcoming of sex and drugs in the cultural zeitgeist, the movies that Hollywood produced needed to mirror this wave of liberation. For the purposes of this starter pack—the first of three devoted to New Hollywood—the films selected were restricted to those released from 1967 to 1980. These years serve as bookends to New Hollywood, beginning with Bonnie and Clyde and The Graduate, and ending with Heaven’s Gate. This first starter pack will focus on the most popular films of the movement, in an attempt to establish a primer. All twenty films below have at least 50,000 watches on Letterboxd. So, if your favorite isn’t included yet, don’t despair! These twenty films are listed chronologically, in order of theatrical release, in an attempt to offer an arc for the timing of New Hollywood. Only one film per director is represented. Read Justin LaLiberty’s full story on Journal. Bonnie and Clyde Midnight Cowboy Easy Rider Five Easy Pieces Klute The Last Picture Show Dirty Harry Serpico The Last Detail Badlands ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 231: Group Picture (best ensemble casting) Knives Out Little Miss Sunshine 12 Angry Men The Royal Tenenbaums Pulp Fiction The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring The Grand Budapest Hotel Sinners Ocean's Eleven Magnolia ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
With BTS: The Return streaming on Netflix now, director Bao Nguyen shares fourteen films that influenced the documentary following the band’s return. Read the details for Bao’s accompanying notes for each pick. Let's Get Lost One of my favorite films of all time, and a timeless portrait of an artist caught between myth and reality. Somewhere Loneliness, intimacy and little moments of joy, all set against the quiet alienation of LA. Dont Look Back Classic, raw and still somehow feels completely present. Stop Making Sense The best concert film ever made, and a reminder of how cinematic performance can be. Metallica: Some Kind of Monster Intimate, uncomfortable and totally unafraid of tension. Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry I loved the way it moves between personal footage and the film itself in a way that feels deeply intimate. Let It Be A portrait of a band creating something beautiful while quietly starting to come apart. Almost Famous Making this film sometimes felt a little like being William Miller. Unzipped An artist in process, full of anxiety, doubt and instinct, trying to make something beautiful before it slips away. Lost in Translation Another Sofia Coppola film—she is so good at capturing isolation and intimacy at the same time in a way that feels honest. ...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie I Swear California Schemin' The Blue Trail Bunnylovr The Drama The Christophers Normal Omaha Blue Heron ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Why go to space? NASA, in laying out its institutional vision to “explore the secrets of the universe for the benefit of all,” asks the same question that many of our most beloved filmmakers have spent decades contemplating. The answer? To find answers. Answers to the great existential quandaries of our times, like: How did this all begin? Who else is out there? Can we make our world better through discovery? With Project Hail Mary now in theaters, here are twenty movies which encapsulate that neverending quest for meaning, our mission to better understand ourselves and our place in the universe. These films also chart the evolution of visual special effects, as well as the ebb and flow of hope and cynicism that comes alongside our extraterrestrial ambitions. A few caveats: for the purposes of this feature, we’ve generally avoided space-set franchises. We’re also attempting—as mentioned above—to focus on pictures where the action mostly takes place in space, leaving behind their comparatively earthbound counterparts (apologies to Arrival, Contact and The Right Stuff). We’ve additionally excluded space documentaries, though there are plenty of those to recommend (For All Mankind and Apollo 11 among them). The same goes for animation (Fantastic Planet and WALL·E, you still have our hearts). These twenty films capture the thrill of what awaits above our heads, out there in the cosmos. Read Dan Mecca’s full list breakdown on Journal. Project Hail Mary Ad Astra High Life Aniara First Man The Martian Interstellar Gravity Europa Report John Carter ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
“The past is incredibly vivid,” the great Irish novelist John Banville once told The Irish Times. “We think we’re living in the present, but we’re really living in the past.” This sentiment holds true in the best of Irish cinema, as well as in the greatest of films set in Ireland: An undeniable acknowledgment of what’s come before and stays with us always. The observation of lives built upon a quiet, hardened past of both agony and ecstasy. For every shallow stereotype attributed to the Emerald Isle, a deeper lore has lingered there for generations. From historical epics to folk horror, the following starter pack is an earnest attempt to capture Ireland’s cinematic heritage, past and present. Read the full story from Dan Mecca on Journal. Ryan's Daughter Barry Lyndon Poitín Cal The Dead The Field The Commitments In the Name of the Father Michael Collins Intermission ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Curation should be king on a streaming service. As much as major streamers entrust algorithms to recommend movies, nothing beats human curation and thoughtful construction that can guide subscribers on what they should watch next. BFI Player values exactly this, and fills their platform with careful selections that bring rare and essential films to cinephiles. Subscribers can watch features ranging from classics like Seven Samurai and The 400 Blows to acclaimed indies like Daughters of the Dust and Morvern Callar. Below you’ll find just ten of the movies available through BFI Player, and all ten center on the work of women filmmakers whose rich stories of self-discovery, cultural reawakening and more will have you recommending them to all your Letterboxd friends. If you feel like the bigger streaming services are just showing you the stuff you’ve already seen, then it’s worth giving BFI Player a shot as it promises to guide you towards films that are off the beaten path and well worth your time. There's Still Tomorrow The Ice Tower The Outrun Late Shift Dreamers All We Imagine as Light Santosh The Echo The Eternal Daughter April
Consensus for Showdown № 230: Asterisk City (best films with punctuation in title) When Harry Met Sally... Monsters, Inc. WALL·E Mamma Mia! Fantastic Mr. Fox Paris, Texas (500) Days of Summer E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial Airplane! Thunderbolts* ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Year in, year out, you think you know awards season and then it hurls you a curveball. That may be an underdog movie that’s quickly risen in the ranks, or a longtime fave saying something that throws all caution to the wind. If you know, you know, and it’s stressful: your predictions are off, your plans out the window, who to trust entirely up in the air once more. But then, you look a little closer: beyond the beautiful and broad big categories, there are always some unsung details worth celebrating—that’s what the Letterboxd crew is here for. We’ve sifted through your reviews and reactions and found both the titles and the tiny moments that deserve more love before this awards season is over. Read the notes to see which category each film has won (and who awarded the prize), and check out our Journal story for words on each selection. Urchin Best Karaoke Scene Black Bag Most Erotic Use of a Lie Detector Final Destination Bloodlines Most Irrational New Fear Unlocked (The MRI death scene) Twinless Best Needle Drop Using a Song Featured on Now That’s What I Call Music: Vol. 6 Caught Stealing The Flow Award for Best Movie Cat (Tonic) If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Best Visual Metaphor for a Character’s Imminent Psychic Collapse (The Hole) The Testament of Ann Lee The Laurie Laurence Awards for Best and Worst Feminist Men: Lewis Pullman as William Lee in The Testament of Ann Lee (Best), Christopher Abbott as Abraham Standerin in The Testament of Ann Lee (Worst) Predator: Badlands Biggest Daddy Issues Die My Love The Mia’s Cat Brad Award for Best Feline Performance by a Human Actor The Chronology of Water The Claire Denis Award for Achievement in Body Fluids ...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Whether you watched it with your BFF—the one you were secretly in love with, of course—or on TV at grandma’s house, we all remember the movie that made us gay. For zillennials, those of us born in that awkward generational valley roughly between 1992 and 2002, those movies had a very specific flavor. The candy-colored, high-femme aesthetics of flicks like Jawbreaker reigned supreme, but baby goth looks and cargo pants were also in, giving fledgeling butches and the soon-to-be-emo hope for the future. This list celebrates the movies that made us feel something, even if we didn’t know what that something was yet. Read more about Payton McCarty-Simas’s selections on Journal. Jennifer's Body Aquamarine Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Bring It On Howl's Moving Castle Freaky Friday Cruel Intentions Cadet Kelly Bend It Like Beckham Matilda ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
There’s nothing more compelling than watching a woman find herself on-screen. Whether the results are triumphant or tragic, hilarious or heartfelt, there’s a thrill to watching women take hold of their own personal strength and break from the bonds of being a wife, mother, caretaker and other supportive roles. Starting in the 1930s and ending in the 2010s, this list combs through the decades to highlight films about women from all walks of life: they leave their husbands, cut their hair, get divorced, and even sometimes abandon their children for a freer life. As long as patriarchy persists, these stories will never go out of style. Read the full breakdown on Journal. The Women Wanda Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore An Unmarried Woman Losing Ground Yentl Desert Hearts Married to the Mob Sleeping with the Enemy The Piano ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 229: Lonely Hearts Club (best underseen romance films) Mississippi Masala Holiday Somewhere in Time Now, Voyager A New Leaf Design for Living Ball of Fire Dogfight Rafiki Beautiful Thing ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett share the films that influenced their new film. Make sure to read the notes to learn more about their inspirations. Midnight Run The pitch perfect tone Martin Brest creates in both this and Beverly Hills Cop has been huge for us since we started making shorts together almost twenty years ago. He’s so adept at grounding thrills and humor through character and it all holds together in such a perfect way. Fantastic characters at the center of a thrilling and offbeat journey. DeNiro as Jack Walsh and Charles Grodin as Mardukas give performances that are so natural, so fun and that hint at a very full off-camera life and story. Their relationship is so rich and nuanced. Complex, hilarious and deeply emotional. They’re both right and they’re both wrong. They’re both flawed. And it’s because of this that we love them. Along with Thelma & Louise, Midnight Run was the gold standard for us while making our movie. Thelma & Louise A lot like Midnight Run, Thelma & Louise is the other movie we discussed the most while making the movie. We love everything about this movie. We love Thelma and Louise as characters, we love the characterizations and the ebbs and flow of their relationship along the road. They’re both such complete characters that push against each other but also complete each other. They make mistakes but they’re just trying to do their best, like all of us. They’re guided by something deeply human the entire time and it makes you root for them and love them. They’re good people in a bad situation but they’re not perfect people. They’re both so fully human and the love you feel between them the entire movie is palpable. We wanted to make sure Grace and Faith had similar traits, that they were coming from an understandable but flawed place. That they could be in real conflict but no matter what, through anything, deep down they truly love each other and will go to the end of the earth for each other. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Like Thelma and Lousie, Butch and Sundance have their differences but when threatened from the outside they’ve got each other’s backs no matter what. Them against the world. The adventure is fun and thrilling but the reason we watch Butch and Sundance over and over (and this is true for almost every movie on this list) is because we love the characters so dearly and want to spend time with them and we want to go through it with them time and time again. Characters like Butch and Sundance (and Thelma and Lousie or Walsh and Mardukas) illuminate something about how we exist in our own relationships and how we’ll fight for someone we love. Each in their own way, the characters ground their movies and are the gravitational force of the tone. They’re what holds the whole thing together. Die Hard With a Vengeance The original Die Hard was one of our biggest influences while we were making the original Ready or Not, but the third Die Hard was a huge inspiration for this Ready or Not. Like everything on this list so far, it’s in large part because of the character dynamics. Samuel Jackson and Bruce Willis and their evolving relationship throughout the insane peril of the movie are so fun to watch. And the action is fantastic. It’s one of our favorite sequels ever. Aliens Along with Terminator 2, Aliens sets the bar for what a sequel can be. There are lots of incredible sequels, but Aliens and Terminator 2 evolve the world and a character in such an exciting way, while also shifting tone just enough to feel fresh without abandoning what made the original feel special. We thought a lot about Ripley’s introduction and evolution in Aliens while figuring about how to introduce Grace in this movie. Terminator 2: Judgment Day Similar to Aliens, T2 is a touchstone for us in so many ways in terms of its expansion of the mythology and characters. Now that Sarah Connor has been through it, her son grounds the movie’s point of view to the real world and audience reaction. Their relationship and dynamic is something we thought about a lot while figuring out how to keep Grace at the center of the movie while also continuing to ground it emotionally to the real world through Faith and her reactions and introduction to the heightened world of the movie’s mythology. True Romance Tony Scott has always been a massive influence on us and we reference his movies a lot. His use of atmosphere is unrivaled and the way he naturally interweaves music into his films is something we’re always chasing. But paramount for this movie was the fight scene between Patricia Arquette and James Gandolfini. While we were crafting ballroom and hallway fights, we constantly turned to that scene for guidance. How do you make something simultaneously difficult to watch and also entertaining? We wanted to cross the line without making the audience turn on the movie and the North Star for us was that fight scene. Friday Friday is one of our all-time favorite two handers. The interplay between Craig and Smokey is so relatable, natural and hilarious. They feel like best friends and despite the drama between them they’re there for each other at every turn, even when it’s their own fault they're in the mess they’re in. Making sure Grace and Faith’s off-camera relationship felt as real and complete was incredibly important to us, its one of the key ingredients that we hope will make you want to revisit the movie, and Friday is one of the most rewatchable movies ever in large part because of the Craig and Smokey relationship, that lived-in nuanced relationship. It’s something we really tried to emulate with Grace and Faith. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Spielberg again. And another one of our all-time favorite movies for a million reasons. The introduction of a co-lead who has to stand by and go toe-to-toe with Indiana Jones, one of the greatest characters ever, is no small feat. And to do it in a way that feels so effortless and like a natural evolution for the story is incredible. The set pieces are amazing, we have turned to many Indiana Jones set pieces over the years to study how they evolve, how to continue to up the ante and twist the knife while always keeping the focus on the characters and their peril and relationships. Also, the look of the Holy Grail influenced the rundown look of LeBail’s ring. And them riding off into the sunrise was a feeling we wanted to capture at the end of our movie. This is a movie that is so deeply embedded into our DNA that there are probably countless influences from it that work their way into our movies both conscious and subconscious. Saving Private Ryan Spielberg movies have always been a big part of our lives and we reference them often (Jurassic Park in Scream VI for the bodega scene there’s even a “clever girl” nod in this movie) but we discussed Saving Private Ryan a lot while we were designing the Ingancio sniper sequence. How to make it feel visceral and terrifying for the MacCaullay sisters.
After 23 years of screening animated shorts before their feature films, Pixar takes a break for Toy Story 4. They assure us the shorts will be back, but we’ll miss those li’l treasures. So, to celebrate the art of Pixar shorts, Letterboxd list maestro Jack Moulton has picked through Pixar’s animated short films, ranking them by our community’s average rating. He also hunted through your reviews to find out why these wee stories rank where they do—read the notes for the lowdown. For this list, only shorts that preceded features in theaters are eligible; some of the company’s earlier shorts are therefore missing and there are no DVD extras. (Olaf’s Frozen Adventure is Disney's fault so it’s not included, but, no surprises, it’s last.) Piper Played before Finding Dory. Won the Oscar for Animated Short. What started as a simple animation test grew to become the most beloved of Pixar’s shorts on Letterboxd. Featuring the most impressive sand animation ever conceived, it’s the attention to detail and immersive perspective that makes Piper stand out. Anyone who has experienced separation anxiety can relate to the coming-of-age story inspired by longtime animator Alan Barillaro’s observations of sandpipers at the Emeryville beaches close to the production campus. It’s part nature-doc, part-trademark Pixar personality as we watch a young sandpiper overcome its fears of ocean waves to hunt on its own. Some lament the latter aspect, claiming “this could have been a new sort of genre: an entirely imagined nature documentary”. Nevertheless, all agree that it’s the “CUTEST. THING. EVER.” Sometimes, that’s all you need. While the studio may rake in every animated feature Oscar, the competition is apparently fiercer for animated shorts. This marked the largest gap between wins—15 years since the also-fowl-related For the Birds. La luna Played before Brave. Nominated for an Oscar for Animated Short. Italian director Enrico Casarosa—who got his start as a storyboard artist and would later become head of story for The Good Dinosaur and Incredibles 2—was inspired by his childhood when he was devising La Luna aka ‘The Moon’. There’s a transportive sense of wonder in the Hayao Miyazaki and Osvaldo Cavandoli-inspired trip to a moon full of stars. Its watercolor backgrounds give the film an essential human touch. While many of Pixar’s shorts can feel insular, La Luna achieves a satisfying resolution to a generational conflict between son, father, and grandfather, telling a universal story in a wholeheartedly unique way. “Georges Méliès would have been proud” raves Blake, who admits they can’t resist giving it five stars for the imagination alone. Bao Played before Incredibles 2. Won the Oscar for Animated Short. It took too long, but after nearly 35 years of producing shorts, Pixar finally had a female director at the helm. Domee Shi’s idiosyncratic Chinese-Canadian perspective was a culture shock to audiences slumped in for Incredibles 2 last year. Watching an animated representation of Shi’s mother suffering through empty-nest syndrome eating her dumpling ‘son’ was weird yet utterly endearing. “I love when any form of medium is able to make an entire audience gasp and laugh out loud because of how uncomfortable they are,” raves Artpig, “and they were able to pull that off in this beautiful little thing that is also strangely heartwarming.” Shi’s risk paid off. It made us cry, it made us laugh, but it mostly made us hungry. Day & Night Played before Toy Story 3. Nominated for an Oscar for Animated Short. Back in 2010, it was worth the cost of admission for Toy Story 3 in 3D just for the short that preceded it. Day & Night marries traditional 2D animation with the 3D modeling Pixar became famous for in an absurdly creative way as we watch anthropomorphized versions of day and night discover each other’s splendors. You know, like this could possibly be the first time they ever met. While it’s caught some flak in hindsight for its most perverse male gaze scenes, it’s the rare example of vocals in a Pixar short, taken from a talk by motivational speaker Dr. Wayne Dyer at the film’s close about overcoming prejudice. “Snappy, funny, thought-provoking, downright adorable,” writes loureviews. Director Teddy Newton was primarily a character designer for Pixar, working on The Incredibles and Ratatouille, but brought his best work to Day & Night. He’s currently working on his first feature for Lengi Studio called Sneaks. Geri's Game Played before A Bug’s Life. Won the Oscar for Animated Short. Occupied by production on Toy Story, there was an eight-year gap between Pixar’s Geri’s Game and its previous short film Tin Toy (not eligible here). As the company’s first feature film would focus more on the freedom afforded by having its primary characters be toys, shortcuts were taken for all the human characters, infamously using the same model as Andy for everyone. Geri’s Game served as preparation for Toy Story’s sequel, as the studio experimented with more realistic skin and human movement effects. Not that the copying and pasting stopped. Geri would later re-appear in the most satisfying movie scene ever performing maintenance on Woody in Toy Story 2. While some viewers find the story of Geri playing chess against himself too light, Xoch finds it an interesting study of loneliness and “why it’s good to be lonely sometimes”. Almost exactly a year after its premiere, it was paired before A Bug’s Life and began a sacred tradition to be continued after this brief break. Director Jan Pinkava would later co-direct Ratatouille with Brad Bird, picking up another Oscar. After a brief stint at Laika, he now works for Motorola. Presto Played before WALL·E. Nominated for an Oscar for Animated Short. The fast and furious gags of Presto worked in contrast to the gentle, foreboding approach that WALL·E would take in the feature that followed. While Andrew Stanton’s opus would be more Chaplin-esque, Presto was a taste of Pixar doing Looney Tunes. With “exceptional comic timing”, it has fun with the way magic and slapstick violence can be portrayed in their trademark 3D animation. Director Doug Sweetland was a veteran animator for Pixar, going all the way back to Toy Story. However, he left shortly after releasing Presto to join Sony Pictures Animation and later Warner Animation Group, where he co-direct 2016’s Storks with Nicholas Stoller. Partly Cloudy Played before Up. You were in for a very sky-oriented evening in 2009 as Partly Cloudy was paired with Up. Taking the prologue concept from Dumbo and exploring a comic relationship between a stork and cloud that only produces dangerous baby animals, it’s a story of “acceptance and duty—we’ve all been both,” writes Sarah Jane’s Husband passionately. While almost all of Pixar’s shorts were in the Academy’s top five in their category, Partly Cloudy is our highest rated to be snubbed. Poor awards fortune would follow director Peter Sohn as his feature debut The Good Dinosaur is one of the rare Pixar features to miss out at the Oscars. At least he had another good gig in 2009 directing the English dub of Miyazaki’s Ponyo. The Blue Umbrella Played before Monsters University. Letterboxd’s favorite Pixar meme goes “What if toys had feelings, what if cars had feelings, what if feelings had feelings, etc”. The Blue Umbrella takes the Pixar mantra to the next level, giving every inanimate object on a rainy day feelings, following the meet-cute between two umbrellas. “There’s something just so magical seeing animated objects falls in love,” writes aweena. The film was an experiment in more photorealistic lighting, which works in contrast to the doodled faces. It was inspired by director Saschka Unseld, a layout artist for Pixar, recognizing the faces and personality on everyday objects on his city strolls. Lou Played before Cars 3. Nominated for an Oscar for Animated Short. You’re caught up on the Cars trilogy, right? Lou may be one of the more skipped shorts on the list, but those who watched it before Cars 3 found the story of a schoolyard bully learning compassion and understanding from a lost-and-found box “terrific and fun and creative and touching,” as Demi notes. “Offering important lessons on bullying and childlike happiness,” writes Travis Lytle, “the short will [elicit] laughter and, perhaps, a tear or two.” While not among the studio’s finest, it’s still a regular better-than-the-feature Pixar special. For the Birds Played before Monsters, Inc.. Won the Oscar for Animated Short. One of Pixar’s briefest and goofiest shorts on offer, it doesn’t waste time with a social issue, delivering a “a simple message against segregation” according to Oscar Rosales. But otherwise it’s “an outstandingly funny short, everything from the physical comedy to the noises the birds made had [me] smiling and at times laughing at loud,” raves Paul Robinson. While the animation has perhaps dated and some find it one-note, the bird imagery has become part of Pixar’s go-to iconography with the lineup appearing in Cars and Inside Out. That said, the technology to achieve the look of the feathers was well ahead of its time in 2000. No match for Sully’s fur in the feature-pairing however. ...plus 7 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
A stalwart presence in cinema for six decades, Robert Duvall brought a fearsome grace to his roles that made them terrifying, tender and always memorable. Matt Goldberg highlights a selection of the actor’s best performances, and the Letterboxd community’s love for each. Read the full story on Journal. Tender Mercies The Godfather The Godfather Part II Apocalypse Now Network The Apostle THX 1138 Open Range Lonesome Dove Get Low ...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Project Hail Mary Hoppers The Bride! Slanted Reminders of Him Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man undertone Ready or Not 2: Here I Come They Will Kill You Alpha ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Kink has had a challenging history in cinema—that’s what happens when the most popular example of a kinky representation at the movies this millennium is the Fifty Shades of Grey series. There are plenty of problems with those movies, but the most egregious is that they fundamentally misunderstand sex and kink, conflating an abusive relationship with consensual BDSM (bondage-discipline, dominance-submission, sadism-masochism). But that’s not what kink is: it’s merely a sexual practice or desire that isn’t considered conventional. Thankfully, we’ve come a long way from movies that use non-conventional sexual acts as the butt of a joke or employ them purely for shock value. And although the idea of kinks is often attributed to darkness, there’s a subsection of film history that celebrates kink in the romance genre. As it strays from convention, so, too, do kinky romance films. They often incorporate different genres into the mix—thriller, horror, period drama, coming-of-age, and even the musical. The latest addition to the wonderful, unexpected world of kink and romance onscreen is Pillion, British filmmaker Harry Lighton’s stunning debut feature, which toes the line of a conventional romantic comedy, except it’s about two leather-clad lads navigating a dominant-submissive relationship. As Pillion reignites the discussion of kink in cinema, our starter pack, below, celebrates films that refuse to treat unconventional sexual practices as something to be ashamed of—though characters may express that shame in their actions, these movies refuse to judge them. Instead, these titles lean into taboo willingly, expressing the joys, terrors, thrills, and satisfaction that come with falling in love while exploring the kinkier side of life. Read the full list breakdown from Barry Levitt on Journal. Pillion The Adjuster Babygirl Belle de Jour The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant Crash Crimes of Passion Dogs Don't Wear Pants The Duke of Burgundy The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
The Letterboxd crew’s favorite cinematic song drops in 2025 films (limited to one song per film intentionally). Listed in alphabetical order, song titles and artists in the notes. Listen on Spotify here. See our full Year in Review presentation. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy Mad About The Boy—Dinah Washington Bugonia Basket Case—Green Day Die My Love In Spite of Ourselves—John Prine, Iris DeMent Eddington Firework—Katy Perry Father Mother Sister Brother Spooky—Anika Friendship Wait and Bleed—Slipknot If I Had Legs I'd Kick You Hot Freaks—Guided By Voices Is This Thing On? Under Pressure—Queen, David Bowie Marty Supreme Everybody Wants To Rule The World—Tears For Fears The Naked Gun Fergalicious—Fergie, will.i.am ...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
For centuries, audiences have loved to watch human competition, whether its chariot races or bowling tourneys. Games that can be played by both children and adults become testaments to the human character and how they handle grace under pressure. But they also highlight how ridiculous anyone can be as they invest their entire beings into a game, relishing the absurdity and quirks of professional athletes as well as the endearing drive of those who simply want to compete. While there are plenty of movies that treat sports as paeans to the human spirit, there are also those that relish how silly the whole endeavor can be. These films utilize the simple framework a sports story provides, and then add color to the individual players, the world they inhabit, and offer clear motivation that helps with a useful want/need break in pushing the characters forward. Happy Gilmore wants to be a hockey player, but he needs to realize he’s a golfer with a painfully poor short game. To mark the 30th anniversary of Happy Gilmore, Matt Goldberg runs down twenty sports comedies to get you started in the genre. These movies serve as a reminder that as much as sporting events can be serious, all-consuming contests, we should also note the frivolity of the games. Let’s have fun out there. Read the full list breakdown on Journal. Happy Gilmore Slap Shot Bull Durham The Sandlot Major League DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story A League of Their Own Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby The Bad News Bears Bring It On ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Today, February 14, we honor the particular feeling of desperately adoring something but lacking anyone to talk with about it. Our contributors have written heartfelt Valentines to the clandestine romance films that are empirically underseen: at the time of publication, all of these selections have fewer than 50,000 watches on Letterboxd. We’ll never let go. We promise. Read more about our crew’s selections on Journal. The Clock Go Fish Goodbye First Love Love Serenade The Unbelievable Truth Love Jones Liza, the Fox-Fairy Blue Juice Faster, Faster Brown Sugar ...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
Consensus for Showdown № 228: Cast Away (best films set on islands) Jurassic Park The Lighthouse Shutter Island Jaws Cast Away The Banshees of Inisherin The Wicker Man Portrait of a Lady on Fire The Menu Glass Onion ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
The conflation of death and intense pleasure is a theme that’s been obsessed over by novelists and philosophers for centuries. Giving up emotional and physical control to another person can be terrifying, and the dangers of sexual relationships are an underlying threat in multiple monster mythologies, most notably in vampire stories. The fascination was also prevalent in Universal’s original cycle of monster movies, not to mention in Gothic fiction, whose popularity dates back to the eighteenth century. Those authors are all dusty bones now, but their passionate longings echo through the centuries, much like the eternal devotion of the misunderstood monsters who populate our romantic horror starter pack below. Read the full list breakdown over on Journal. The Mummy The Ghost and Mrs. Muir Creature from the Black Lagoon Night Tide Ganja & Hess The Iron Rose The Hunger The Fly Bram Stoker's Dracula Cemetery Man ...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.
From emotionally devastating dramas to witty and wise docs, Sundance 2026 was another one for the books: here are ten features to remember for the rest of this year. Read the full list breakdown on Journal. Josephine Joybubbles The Friend's House is Here Cookie Queens If I Go Will They Miss Me The Invite American Doctor Wicker Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! The Incomer
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