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.

As spooky season officially begins, the Letterboxd crew (with a little help from some filmmaker friends) scares up twenty-plus of our favorite horror performances—from Shelley Duvall and Claude Rains to Nicole Kidman and Snoop Dogg.

From deep dives into process with filmmakers and academic lectures to drunken hijinks and actors refusing to break character, Justin LaLiberty examines the many values of audio commentaries past, present and future.

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. 

Our picks of under-the-radar gems from this month’s new releases. This edition includes three murder mysteries of varying subgenres (psychological, procedural, paranormal) and two tender-hearted fatherhood flicks.

To celebrate 100 years of Columbia Pictures, Justin LaLiberty examines the marketing blitz, initial dismissal and eventual reappraisal of Paul Verhoeven’s fascism satire Starship Troopers.