Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a tropical Brazilian noir, a Scott Pilgrim-esque coming-of-ager, a history-making character study and a couple of expectation-subverting horrors.

In celebration of Mother’s Day, the Letterboxd crew shares the love for our favorite movie moms, from Marmee March to murderous matriarchs and beyond.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a cross-culture love affair, a decade-spanning queer musical, a genre-blending Brooklyn tapestry and more.

With awards season in the rearview mirror, Leo Koziol guides us through the year in Indigenous cinema, from tearjerking school choirs and emotional ance marathons to haunting explorations of forced assimilation.

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.

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. 

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition takes watchlisters around the world, introducing us to a pair of sisters coming of age in 1992 Lima, a desperate factory worker in Copenhagen and a mustachioed Jude Law in the Pacific Northwest.

“Moanapocalypse” has arrived with the release of Moana 2 in cinemas, marking the biggest five-day opening of all time. Leo Koziol (Māori) travels across the moana from Aotearoa New Zealand to Hawai’i to adventure into the deep with the film’s directors, songwriters and voice cast.

In another stellar year for Native cinema, Indigenous editor Leo Koziol surveys the heroic work of filmmakers around the world—from their Rez and tribal villages to the red carpets of Hollywood.

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.

Rez Ball writer-director Sydney Freeland tells Leo Koziol about the logistics of filming on the reservation, dodging the white savior narrative and herding sheep as a pathway to teamwork in basketball.