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. 

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.

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.

After Maite Alberdi became the first Chilean woman to be nominated for an Oscar, her next step saw her go inwards: into the love and memories between Augusto Góngora and his wife Paulina Urrutia, as Alzheimer’s takes hold.

With his third film about the inner lives of young men now available for at-home viewing, Matt Johnson lifts the hood on Canada’s greatest export: the respectable nerds who invented the smartphone with BlackBerry.

With one eye on Letterboxd reviews and another on themes of sex and cooking, betrayal and infidelity, our correspondents settle on their best of the Cannes Film Festival for 2023. 

Smartphone companies, trans documentaries, Sydney Sweeney and Franz Rogowksi are among Rafa Sales Ross’ highlights from the 2023 Berlinale.

For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew and filmmakers reminisce about the movie characters that first gave them funny feelings.

From leaping luchadors to chaotic bisexuals, past lives to eternal memories, our Sundance team selects the highlights of this year’s fest.

From Jonathan Majors to Nicole Holofcener, these are the films and filmmakers we’re most excited to see at this year’s hybrid Sundance Film Festival.

Enys Men director Mark Jenkin and star Mary Woodvine on the complexities of shooting on 16mm, being labelled ‘experimental’ and making DIY films with loved ones.