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.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes a baseball hangout, dystopian domesticity, a Capra-esque exploration of identity, Zambian magical realism and a secret mall apartment.

In celebration of her new book, Cinema Her Way: Visionary Female Directors in Their Own Words, author Marya E. Gates selects one sensational film from each of the nineteen women filmmakers she has interviewed to highlight the breadth of artistic contributions they have made to cinema’s past, present and future.

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.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition offers the warmth of adorable hummingbirds and dazzling showgirls, as well as the chill of ghost stories and systemic horrors.

To celebrate the release of James Mangold’s new biopic A Complete Unknown, Marya E. Gates traces Bob Dylan’s indelible footprint on a vast array of cinema and how his deep love for the medium influenced his own work.

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.

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition features the return of Oscar-winner Cillian Murphy, a Cannes-winning Iranian drama, a handful of searing political documentaries and an ode to cinematic witches.

Our Letterboxd correspondents share their picks of the highlights from the fall film festival season, from alt-rock docudramas to campy Brazilian tragicomedies to a trio of always reliable auteurs: Almodóvar, Guadagnino, Leigh.