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
As of this writing, the invaluable movie social networking site Letterboxd lists 112,245 released from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009. Ten years, over 112,000 movies. That means if you dedicated your life to watching every single movie released in the decade over the course of the entire decade, you would have to watch … Read more
The only good social network remains Letterboxd, where users can log and review the movies they watch, and their network of friends can read their reviews and comment on them. More: No rate limits! It’s basically a paradise. Letterboxd also maintains a really fun Instagram account, which is definitely worth a follow for any movie … Read more