This month’s round-up of some of the best under-the-radar releases includes full-frontal meta comedy, lycanthrope love and a fashion doc on the icon Bethann Hardison.

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.

Introducing our round-up of the best of the month’s new under-the-radar releases. This edition includes uncanny aliens, Neutral Milk Hotel and the neurodivergent teens staging a John Farnham musical. 

Brain worms, shapeshifters and time-loops: our correspondents round up their ten best flicks from Montréal’s celebrated genre festival. 

Should I cancel my streaming services? Is it scabbing to write a Letterboxd review? Our Best in Show crew answer your questions about the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes and what it all means for film fans.

Before Greta Gerwig’s dolls come to life, Letterboxd members who have ranked every animated Barbie movie fill us in on the best songs, funniest villains and hottest cottagecore lesbians in the Mattel fashionista’s universe.

Blockbuster sequels, first-time filmmakers and a record number of women directors mix it up in the Letterboxd Top 25 at the 2023 halfway point. Jack Moulton and Gemma Gracewood report. 

Movies framing pandemic fathers and fat activists fascinated our team of on-the-ground correspondents at this year’s Tribeca Festival.

Introducing a fairer approach to weighting, to better reflect the Letterboxd community’s global consensus for each film.

Female directors, workplace romances, broadcast journalism and plenty of horror are in sight as our Tribeca team highlights eight titles for your festival watchlist.

Be in to win a private screening of Wes Anderson’s new film by following the clues to collect fourteen special Asteroid City-inspired items hidden around Letterboxd.  

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.