To film one of the most powerful and disputed men in history, Sir Ridley Scott focuses on the woman who drove Napoleon crazy. In Paris, Ella Kemp rewrites history with the director and his stars, Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby. 

With her latest provocative pleasure Saltburn, Emerald Fennell goes more personal and more sicko in a tale of privilege, desire and dark obsession. From one silly Brit to another, Ella Kemp takes a figurative trip to the estate.

Our annual sale on Pro and Patron memberships is here: Ella Kemp reports on the statistical probability that a film lover’s Letterboxd life is vastly improved through numbers (and the ability to game them when it comes to your favorite actor).

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.

As Errol Morris releases his latest documentary The Pigeon Tunnel, which dissects the mind of John Le Carré, Ella Kemp flips the script and quizzes the filmmaker on his favorite movies—and all the things he hates about cinema, too.

A round-up of the best of the month’s new releases that are sitting just under the radar. This edition includes a barf-bag-worthy horror, Kishi Bashi’s empathetic song film, a daring escape from North Korea, and a lost dog.

The Royal Hotel writer and director Kitty Green discusses her pressure-cooker of an Australian adventure, the bad men who come with it and the wisdom of having Hugo Weaving captain the acting ship. 

Fair Play writer and director Chloe Domont lifts the hood on the “sweet guys” of finance, the ugliness of women and the painful, shameful feelings in most progressive relationships.

At the IMAX world premiere of A24’s glorious Stop Making Sense restoration, Gemma Gracewood and Ella Kemp talk to Talking Heads about creating connections, having fun and spider-dancing. 

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. 

You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah director Sammi Cohen talks the Sandler effect, ungendered b’nai mitzvahs, sweaty Jewish girls and why Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade is a masterpiece.

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.