We’ve once again punched our calculator buttons and lovingly computed for you the fourth-annual Letterboxd Year in Review. It’s a representation of our community’s combined ratings as at January 1, 2016, and we’ve spent the past couple of weeks compiling and fine-tuning the review based on this data.

We’re finishing up the year in pretty great shape: several site improvements, the release of the iOS app beta to Patrons, and the 2015 Year in Review which we’ll publish in January.

We’re very proud to announce a new website called Film Fest Buzz, which we have partnered with GoWatchIt to build. Film Fest Buzz is a way to discover your new favourite film from the festival circuit, and we’re delighted to be more directly involved at the epi-center of film discovery.

Richard Linklater’s Boyhood tops our Year in Review, while Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel is the most popular film. 

In June of this year, Netflix announced via its API Developer blog that it was discontinuing what remained of its public API service for all but a handful of services. Letterboxd was not—and despite our best efforts in the intervening months, is not—one of those services.

Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave is the Letterboxd community’s highest-rated film; Tarantino’s Django Unchained is the most popular.

Hello! Here’s a quick note about some new updates we have for you in the run up to the end of the year, with apologies to David Fincher. Firstly, you might have noticed we’ve been beta testing tighter Facebook integration.

Big thanks to Film Comment magazine for this mention in its new print edition!

Two neat new features for our Pro and Patron today: Clone a List You can now clone and edit any public List with a single click.

Today we’re beyond thrilled to announce a partnership with The Dissolve, a fantastic new film criticism site from the team behind Pitchfork. Beside each review on The Dissolve you’ll now find an embedded summary of activity from Letterboxd, which we automatically personalize if you’re signed in to our site.

Filtering, filing and shortcuts have been added in our latest feature update.

As mentioned in our Community post, we’ve been working on a way to prevent another member from interacting with your Letterboxd . From today, a ‘Blocking’ facility is available to all , should you require it.