Woman of the Hour director Anna Kendrick breaks down four films that influenced her filmmaking debut, from Agnès Varda and Alan J. Pakula to Jean-Pierre Melville and the Coen brothers. 

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 a show-stopping Tom Hiddleston dance sequence to heart-wrenching reflections on our own mortality, we break down the first responses to Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck, recipient of this year’s TIFF People’s Choice Award.

From wooing Diahann Carroll and antagonizing Arnold Schwarzenegger to voicing two of cinema’s most iconic dads, we look back at some of the Letterboxd community’s favorite James Earl Jones performances.

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.

From her emergence as Robert Altman’s muse and being terrorized by Jack Torrance to working with Jane Campion, Steve Martin and more, we look back at some of the Letterboxd community’s favorite Shelley Duvall performances.

Twice the Zendaya, hundreds of beavers and a record number of Indian films mark our halfway Top 25 of 2024. The list also includes new movies coming to this month’s NY Asian Film Festival. Our team reads the sands as the Shai-Hulud continues to ride the top spot.  

From body snatching and parental grief to conspiracy thrillers and games of hunger, we look back at some of the Letterboxd community’s favorite Donald Sutherland performances.

Hit Man star Glen Powell and director Richard Linklater speak to Mitchell Beaupre about the special ingredients for their screwball-noir-romance cocktail, and the evolution of their creative dynamic from coach and player to full collaborators.

From A Bug’s Life and Robert Altman to Amadeus and Jane Campion, father-daughter filmmaking duo Ethan and Maya Hawke reflect on the movies that have bonded them together throughout their lives.

To celebrate 100 years of Columbia Pictures, we’re examining the deep impact of Otto Preminger’s 1959 courtroom drama Anatomy of a Murder, from busting through the Hays Code to influencing Justine Triet.

With his first five features streaming as part of a new Criterion Channel collection, filmmaker James Gray speaks with Mitchell Beaupre about life-risking car chases, ambiguous endings and the beauty in sadness across a career that avoids “homogenized pap.”