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.

With Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Evil Does Not Exist out in US cinemas, the filmmaker tells Rafa Sales Ross about his poetic observation of the rhythms of nature, the importance of engaging with other art forms and why it is so very tricky to work with deer.

As Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast arrives in US cinemas, the French filmmaker tells Rafa Sales Ross about his genre-bending love story, the anxiety and exaltation of being an artist today, and George MacKay’s very thorough emails.

With subtitles now regularly switched on for at-home viewing, Rafa Sales Ross meets experts of the captioning craft to find out what gets lost in translation between humans and machines, and how to keep making the big screen more accessible.

For Valentine’s Day, the Letterboxd crew reminisce on ten of our worst dates at the movies, from foot lotion mishaps to foot-long sandwich calamities, and wonder what kind of film could survive an awkward debut outing.

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.

With his movie-palace documentary Pictures of Ghosts releasing in US theaters, Kleber Mendonça Filho shares cinema memories from his hometown Recife, Brazil—including watching Cronenberg’s The Fly in the ’80s—and why projectionists and programmers are so crucial to the medium’s survival.

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 upcoming 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.