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.

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 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.

Operatic divas, kidnapped congressmen, Olympic boxers and beyond: all this and more in this year's cream of the crop, premiering across the 2024 fall film festival season. 

From Alfonso Cuarón’s formative movies to Jane Campion’s unmissable books, five filmmakers tell us about a great love in their lives, while attending the 77th Locarno Film Festival.

From downtown NYC to Venus and Jupiter, we uncover eleven Tribeca Festival world premieres—five docs and six narrative features—that Letterboxd had more than a New York minute for. 

Back from the Croisette, Ella Kemp and her 2024 Cannes team have selected the cream of the crop to add to your watchlists, including an animated cat, an award-winning dog and an auspicious Bird.

Startling home invasions, swooning stuntmen, boy band romances and a butt-kicking Dev Patel are among our team’s highlights of this year’s SXSW Film Festival.

Action grandmas, devoted daughters, cantors in crisis, Irish-language rappers, and Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough in Sasquatch prosthetics rank among our crew’s highlights of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

As film fans board the free shuttles for the year’s first big festival, our Sundance 2024 correspondents set their sights on activist docs, queer romances, Norwegian zombies and more.

Our festival correspondents have brought back a little something for everyone this year: the music of Maestro, high-octane Hindi-language action, “squelchy” stop-motion and so much more in their twenty best.