Gemma Gracewood reports from a TIFF missing most of its A-listers, but putting its best independent foot forward in the interim, with cheers of solidarity from Jessica Chastain, Bowen Yang, Devery Jacobs and more. 

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah director Sammi Cohen talks the Sandler effect, ungendered b’nai mitzvahs, sweaty Jewish girls and why Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade is a masterpiece.

Letterboxd correspondents sift through the prestige pictures (Michael Mann!) and indie gems (Kitty Green!) coming to the Venice, Toronto, London and New York Film Festivals to present our most-anticipated of the festival season.

Scrapper writer-director Charlotte Regan and star Harris Dickinson talk working-class stories, soccer shirts, unfair comparisons and Letterboxd hype.

Introducing our round-up of the best of the month’s new under-the-radar releases. This edition includes uncanny aliens, Neutral Milk Hotel and the neurodivergent teens staging a John Farnham musical. 

You Hurt My Feelings filmmaker Nicole Holofcener sifts through Letterboxd reviews to make sense of her own feelings, the movies that helped her find her peerless voice, and the legacy of Walking and Talking.

Michael and Danny Philippou talk to us about Talk To Me: the horror and energy of their debut feature, their fear of Letterboxd reviews and their unstoppable awe for Sophie Wilde.

Barbenheimer becomes the destroyer of records as a miraculous weekend for theaters shakes things up at Letterboxd. Ella Kemp has the ratings, reactions and receipts. 

Theater Camp stars and creators Molly Gordon and Ben Platt lift the curtain on the haywire energy of the theater kids they were, the ones they work with today, and the kind of collaboration we can all laugh and learn from.

Mission: Impossible director (and Letterboxd member!) Christopher McQuarrie shuffles his favorites list to recommend some movies for tonight’s viewing, while also opening up about his influences and process.

Return to Seoul writer and director Davy Chou unpacks comparisons to The Worst Person in the World, Park Ji-min’s gutting performance and more from his empathetic, globe-trotting feature.

Jedi training, youthful genius, knowing when to let Tom Hanks do Tom Hanks: Ella Kemp spends a perfect afternoon telling stories with Asteroid City filmmaker Wes Anderson in Cannes.