Ahead of this year’s Cannes, Rafa Sales Ross highlights nine films playing at the Croisette, including a tropical noir, a Céline Sciamma script and new dramas starring Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi and Barry Keoghan.

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.

On the red carpet for the SXSW premiere of The Fall Guy, Annie Lyons catches up with stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, director David Leitch and more about the practical stunts at the heart of their new romantic action-comedy.

At the world premiere of Dev Patel’s explosive directorial debut Monkey Man, SXSW correspondent Annie Lyons gets the lowdown from Patel and producer Jordan Peele about their firecracker feature.

Ahead of the 2024 edition of the SXSW Film Festival, Annie Lyons discovers early trends in this year’s program including time loops, societal collapse and—of course—the wildest parties.

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.

Gemma Gracewood reports from a TIFF missing most of its A-listers, but putting its best independent foot forward in the interim, with cheers of solidarity from Jessica Chastain, Bowen Yang, Devery Jacobs and more. 

Ciao, Venezia! European correspondent George Fenwick hits the Lido to report on the Letterboxd community’s reactions to the 80th Venice Film Festival’s most primo premieres.

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 upcoming festival season.

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