As our new showtimes feature goes wide, the Letterboxd crew share our favorite 2023 cinema experiences—from a no-seats Stop Making Sense dance party to a raucous Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging rep screening to a near-religious John Wick 4 multiplex return. 

As Native-made cinema goes from strength to strength, Indigenous Editor Leo Koziol rounds up recommendations from—and conversations with—global filmmakers who have added worthy new additions to the Native film canon over the past year.

As his soccer underdog story arrives in theaters, Next Goal Wins director Taika Waititi tells Leo Koziol about his love of rugby, using his Indigenous influence in Hollywood, and the realities of dating in a small town.

A roundup of the month’s best new under-the-radar releases. This edition includes a BDSM sub’s daily life, a spurned sexologist, a delicious Frederick Wiseman doc and a look into the life of Albert Brooks.

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.

Fresh from her imagineNATIVE 2023 award, Tautuktavuk (What We See) filmmaker Lucy Tulugarjuk talks about the legacy of Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, contemporary Igloolik life and waiting a long time for her ink.

As Austin’s legendary festival takes itself to Australia for the first time, Leo Koziol chats to the directors of one of the new Indigenous films screening at the inaugural SXSW Sydney: the cross-cultural coming-of-activist-age feature Uproar. 

Leo Koziol chats with Toll writer-director Carolina Markowicz about the future of Brazilian cinema, protecting Frozen’s Elsa and her film’s unique mix of maternal crime caper and conversion therapy survival story. 

As TIFF kicks off, Frybread Face and Me director Billy Luther chats with Indigenous Editor Leo Koziol about the magic of Starman, his penchant for “soft, gentle things” and how Māori and Navajo people both love them some frybread.

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.

Brain worms, shapeshifters and time-loops: our correspondents round up their ten best flicks from Montréal’s celebrated genre festival. 

Creative collaborators Riley Keough, Gina Gammell and Pte Cante Win Poor Bear (Lakota) on creating a human-first environment on their award-winning coming-of-age drama War Pony.