When the topic of the best movies ever made comes up, there are a few respected polls and lists that cinephiles consult. Every ten years, Sight & Sound puts out their best film poll that draws on the expertise of dozens of film critics and filmmakers. The American Film Institute released several well-respected lists of the … Read more
I might have a Letterboxd problem. Is it unhealthy if I look at Letterboxd more than my email? More than I exercise? I More than I talk to my wife? Okay, I’m kidding about that last part. (On most days; some nights my wife goes to bed early! What else am I supposed to do?) … Read more
Letterboxd’s database categorizes movies into 19 different genres: Action, adventure, animation, crime, documentary, drama, family, fantasy, history, horror, music, mystery, romance, science fiction, thriller, TV movie (is that a genre?), war, western … and comedy. In each category, users can filter and arrange the movies in a myriad of ways: By decade of release, by where and how … Read more
By now it should be pretty clear: I love Letterboxd. After my email and my homemade Gymkata fan page, it’s probably my most-visited site on the internet. I use it to log my own viewing habits, keep tabs on what my friends are watching, and get ideas for new things to check out. (Right now I’m working … Read more
Letterboxd released their annual “Year In Review” feature where they compile the stats from their millions of users for the past 12 months in a nice cinematic wrap-up — and this year’s big winner was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The sequel to 2018’s award-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was the site’s top-rated (fiction) film of 2023. (Technically Renaissance: A Film … Read more
The only thing more fun than watching movies is obsessively rating and reviewing them on Letterboxd, the film site and app that’s part database and part nerdy social media platform. Letterboxd lets you track, rate, and review everything you watch, and read reviews from your friends and any one else on the site who publicly … Read more
Letterboxd’s database lists over 33,000 titles released in 2023 alone. That is … an enormous amount of movies. Arguably too many! Talking about a fragmented media landscape. But the great part about a site and app like Letterboxd is that it lets you wrap your brain around those films by filtering that massive database in … Read more
The indispensable movie site and app Letterboxd currently lists 33,304 movies released in 2023. That’s a staggering amount of content. It would be physically impossible for someone to watch all of it in a single year — unless they somehow figured out a way to watch 91 movies every day for 365 straight days. (If someone does, let … Read more
Letterboxd, the cinematic social media site, is a great place to discover films to watch. You can sort the site’s hundreds of thousands of titles according to their popularity with the app’s users, or according to their highest average rating. And when the leaves start to fall from the trees, and pumpkin spices start to … Read more
As of this writing, the film-centric social media app Letterboxd lists 239,369 films released between January of 2010 and December of 2019. That’s a whole lot of movies — more than double the amount of films Letterboxd’s database contains from the 2000s. So to rank among the 25 worst films out of all of them … Read more