Long, harrowing road trips, reality competition shows, bubblegum wastelands, multiverse mayhem and the return of Matthew McConaughey are among our crew’s highlights from this year’s SXSW Film Festival.

Ahead of the 2025 edition of the SXSW Film Festival, Annie Lyons unearths early trends in this year’s program, including extraterrestrial nightmares, three-pointed romances and entomology excitement.

The Letterboxd crew proudly present our inaugural celebration of the finest hyper-specific achievements in the past year of cinema. Our wildly subjective awards honor the best in categories ranging from Girl Dad to Sexy Accessory to Prosthetic Appendage. Envelopes, please! 

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes an Oscar-nominated documentary (and our highest rated feature of 2024), a time-traveling rom-com and the first all-Indigenous comedy special.

For Valentine’s Day, Letterboxd staff and contributors celebrate the cinematic couples who make us swoon, sigh and shout, “Love is real!”—from Jackie Brown and Max Cherry to Charles Grodin and Miss Piggy.

Invigorating documentaries, dreaming loggers, freaky fairy tales and the unraveling of many more than Two Women rank among our crew’s highlights of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

From sinister popstars to a marriage frayed by cabbages, the Letterboxd crew shares fifteen titles to  watchlist from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. 

Annie Lyons counts down the top ten most obsessively rewatched films at New Year’s, from Reynolds and Alma to Harry and Sally—and makes the case that Alien should be included in the festivities.

As Over the Garden Wall celebrates its tenth birthday, Annie Lyons cozies up with Letterboxd to explore the deep impact of the beloved fall series. 

To celebrate 100 years of Columbia Pictures, Annie Lyons demands your full attention as she leaves her Prada at the cleaners and wires into the romantic comedy undercurrents at the heart of David Fincher’s The Social Network.

With Megalopolis now in theaters, Francis Ford Coppola takes us through the design of three past works, from the theatrics of One from the Heart to the entrepreneurial spirit of Tucker: The Man and His Dream to the archaic grandeur of Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

As spooky season officially begins, the Letterboxd crew (with a little help from some filmmaker friends) scares up twenty-plus of our favorite horror performances—from Shelley Duvall and Claude Rains to Nicole Kidman and Snoop Dogg.