Letterboxd Film Reviews

Letterboxd works better than IMDb because the reviews are personal and short, 1 to 3 sentences about how a film made someone feel rather than whether it was technically accomplished. The shift from criticism to reaction makes the platform feel like overhearing a conversation. Half-star ratings give 9 possible scores, so you can distinguish a 3-star film you liked from a 3.5 you want to recommend. A diary feature timestamps every film and displays your history as a calendar grid, and the pattern of colored squares reveals habits you did not know you had. User-created lists with titles like movies to watch when it's raining are a discovery method that no algorithm can replicate.