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Backfill · 2024

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Letterboxd Film Profiles

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Editorial lifestyle photo of a phone screen showing a Letterboxd user profile with a grid of colorful movie posters, star ratings visible below each poster, the user's stats banner at the top.

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Letterboxd turned film logging into a social network where your profile is a grid of poster art representing everything you've watched. The visual impact of that grid is what hooked me. You rate films on a 5-star scale, write reviews, and build lists. Personal curation combined with community discussion creates a space that feels more like a bookshelf than a social feed. Scrolling through someone's profile tells you more about them than most other platforms could. The poster grid becomes a portrait of your taste over time.