# Letterboxd 16 Hacker News commenters recommended Letterboxd and 14 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 8 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Recommended for logging, reviewing and rating films with smooth lists and watchlists. Critics fear a studio-linked sale and a cluttered review feed. ## Why people recommend it - Watchlists and lists with filters (4 comments): "I like how they implement it. I can filter a list of movies per streaming service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49010674)) "Letterboxd (among others) will give you a somewhat more clunky unified watchlist" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49009100)) "worth noting that letterboxd will track progress on these and similar lists" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46850309)) - Charming, thoughtful reviewer community (2 comments): "part of the charm of letterboxd is that its median reviewer is far more woke than every NYT contributor combined" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49850033)) "they avoid the overwriting problem that even the more thoughtful Letterboxd users are prone to" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48575031)) - Smooth, polished, well-liked overall (2 comments): "especially compared to how smooth Letterboxd feels" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47144154)) "this big and this good (it's terrific)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49852590)) - Inspiration for similar sites (2 comments): "a letterboxd-like lookup for books would have similar regularly-occurring debates" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47069792)) "Letterboxd was a big inspiration." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146843)) ## What people warn about - Login problems and poor layout (3 comments): "I can't log into Letterboxd or whatever" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50313570)) "Letterboxd layout is the worst." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849754)) "I really dislike Letterboxd" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423374)) - Studio ownership and rating manipulation (3 comments): "Having such a high profile film rating site be potentially owned by a film studio has serious conflict of interest issues." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849541)) "They don't show pre-screening ratings anymore, amassing the cheater ratings then to the public on the Premiere day." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854427)) "There are dozens of people giving only 5 stars to a certain companies films." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49854381)) - Review feed buried in jokes (2 comments): "you need to scroll through so many jokes before you find an actual insightful review" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45804225)) "you have to wade through a mountain of terrible one-liners from wannabe comedians" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573019)) - Fears of decline after sale (2 comments): "Can't wait for the enshittification of Letterboxd." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49849411)) "Going the same way as Rotten Tomatoes." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866737)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [Criterion Closet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/criterion-closet.md): 13 recommend - [JustWatch](https://hackerapproved.com/p/justwatch.md): 11 recommend - [IMDb](https://hackerapproved.com/p/imdb.md): 6 recommend - [CineCLI](https://hackerapproved.com/p/cinecli.md): 6 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://letterboxd.com/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "Letterboxd", https://hackerapproved.com/p/letterboxd/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).