Letterboxd Film Community

The film logging app that has taken over my friend group isn't trying to be a streaming service or a recommendation engine. It's just a place to record what you watched, rate it on a 5-star scale, and write a short review if you feel like it. Built around a personal diary view, your watches show up as a chronological grid of poster thumbnails. Scrolling back through a year of entries feels like reviewing a reading log but for movies. The social layer works because you follow friends and see their ratings in real time. Watching a movie becomes the beginning of a conversation rather than the end of one. After seeing something together, my friends and I compare star ratings. Half-star disagreements generate more discussion than the films themselves. Lists let users create themed collections like "movies where the food looks good" or "best final shots." Browsing those lists has become its own form of discovery, one that feels more trustworthy than any algorithm. Three people in my film class mentioned it in the same week, which is what got me started in November. The community aspect has changed my relationship to watching movies from a passive activity into something I actively think about and document. Basic features are free. Premium costs $50 per year for stats and filtering, which I haven't paid for because the free version does everything I need.