Letterboxd Film Diary

I started using Letterboxd because a friend told me it was like Goodreads for movies. Now I check it after every film to see what other people thought. The app lets you log films with a star rating and a short review. Its diary format organizes everything chronologically, so you can scroll back and see your viewing history for the whole year. What makes it different from rating films on a streaming platform is the community. Reviews come from actual film fans, not algorithms. Reading a 3-sentence take from someone who clearly loves cinema is more useful than a percentage score. Letterboxd also surfaces statistics about your viewing habits: how many films you watched this month, which decades you gravitate toward, which countries your selections come from. Those patterns reveal things about your taste that you might not notice on your own. Clean and dark with green accents, the interface feels more like a reference than a store trying to sell you something. Film pages show poster art alongside cast, crew, and user reviews in a layout that respects the medium. Mubi, the streaming service, works well alongside Letterboxd. You can discover a film on one platform and watch it on the other. The two services complement each other without competing. Following friends and seeing their recent watches creates a low-pressure accountability. It's made me watch more varied films because I know my list is visible. I've logged around 80 films since I started. Looking back through the diary, I realize my taste has shifted from mostly American blockbusters to a wider range of international and independent work. The free tier does everything I need, though a paid version for $20 a year adds analytics and profile customization. It works because it treats film watching as a practice worth documenting rather than just consumption. Framing changes how seriously you take the experience.