Back from the Croisette, Ella Kemp and her 2024 Cannes team have selected the cream of the crop to add to your watchlists, including an animated cat, an award-winning dog and an auspicious Bird.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a Coen-esque neo-Western, soulful Texan rappers, goopy Oregonian body horror and a Sundance award-winning Lithuanian romance.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes animated chicken, Iranian wrestling, Indigenous astronomy and girl-centric documentaries about American activism.

Startling home invasions, swooning stuntmen, boy band romances and a butt-kicking Dev Patel are among our team’s highlights of this year’s SXSW Film Festival.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes Elliot Page’s coming-of-age, an American odyssey in search of sperm, and literally hundreds of beavers.

For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew reminisce on ten of our worst dates at the movies, from foot lotion mishaps to foot-long sandwich calamities, and wonder what kind of film could survive an awkward debut outing.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a Succession matriarch, a feverish coming-of-age in Florida, squicky stop-motion and Franz Rogowski in the French Foreign Legion. 

Action grandmas, devoted daughters, cantors in crisis, Irish-language rappers, and Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough in Sasquatch prosthetics rank among our crew’s highlights of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

As film fans board the free shuttles for the year’s first big festival, our Sundance 2024 correspondents set their sights on activist docs, queer romances, Norwegian zombies and more.

Box-office blockbusters dominated your highest-rated and most popular films of 2023, but fearless directorial debuts claimed their space within the web of superheroes, scientists and feminist fantasies as we returned to cinemas. 

As our new showtimes feature goes wide, the Letterboxd crew share our favorite 2023 cinema experiences—from a no-seats Stop Making Sense dance party to a raucous Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging rep screening to a near-religious John Wick 4 multiplex return. 

A roundup of the best of the month’s new releases that are sitting just under the radar. This edition includes a fat-friendly documentary, Russian performance art, Mike Leigh’s progeny taking up the mantle, tempestuous teachers and an indie horror with less than 100 Letterboxd views.