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.

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 festival season.

With one eye on Letterboxd reviews and another on themes of sex and cooking, betrayal and infidelity, our correspondents settle on their best of the Cannes Film Festival for 2023. 

From Killers of the Flower Moon to The New Boy, the 2023 Cannes Film Festival shines a light on the vital impact of telling Indigenous stories. 

Acclaimed cinematographer Sean Price Williams and stars Talia Ryder and Simon Rex on talking fast about everything at the Cannes premiere of their hellish American odyssey.