Top of the popularity chart at Letterboxd is the excellent Mission:Impossible – Rogue Nation starring Rebecca Ferguson alongside recurring characters from the franchise. And introducing… Alec Baldwin. Great to see all five M:I films in our top 20 most popular for a couple of days last week.

★★★★ “Both old-school and modern in all the right ways.” —JackGir

★★★★ “I’d go so far as to say Sean Harris plays the best villain in the series yet, imbuing Solomon Lane with a delightful weirdness and creep factor that fits in perfectly with the pulpy, over-the-top vibe of the movie.” —Carter Friend

★★★★ “Classy, lean and meta-textual. Everything you’d expect from the great Christopher McQuarrie. He’s 3 for 3 now on the directing front.” —Justin Decloux

4 times the action. 4 times the adventure. 4 times the number of Letterboxd reviews pointing out what a stinker Fantastic Four is.

“There are little character beats that are just wonderful, like Reed shaving or Thing juicing an entire bag of oranges,” writes Matt Singer, but “it’s like the script got caught in an explosion at the Stupid Factory.”

From Ireland’s Cartoon Saloon, the gorgeous Song of the Sea left us quivering messes in its wake at the NZ International Film Festival. LB member Tarryn-tino said it best: “I loved it so much that I want to have children, just so I can show them this movie haha. The animation was really beautiful, quite stunning really and there were several moments when I (and all the children around me) gasped at its beauty and sat there wide-eyed in wonder.”

The Man of Steel and The Lone Ranger pair up in a big-screen remake of beloved 60s TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which also sees Hugh Grant step out of self-imposed retirement to play a British spymaster. The NY Times looks at the divergence between U.N.C.L.E. and M:I 5.

“An overrated and judgmental film: it presumes a kind of conceited approach to its main character’s arc and its supporting characters’ view of her, relaying it as some kind of feminism despite none of it fitting any textbook example of the term. It expects its audience to follow its viewpoint around like dogs for fear of feeling stupid, all the while forgetting that in the cinema everything is about context. All this along with the gross over-length, flat humor and superfluous celebrity cameos typical of its director.” —Julien Faddoul

“Apatow’s best!! With one of my favorite new comedy scripts, it even has Bill Hader absolutely killing it as the romantic leading man. This is all I ever wanted for him for YEARS. Amy Schumer cuts a great comedy silhouette too. So fulfilling and entertaining, Trainwreck made me laugh exuberantly and cry considerably.” —Sheryl

Not such an old-timey classic, perhaps, but we like it when our members revisit past loves (and hates) in the context of new releases. The rewatch is what we’re all about. Here is Jake Paul on J.J. Abrams’ Mission:Impossible III:

“As Davian, Hoffman delivers a master class in soft-spoken, manipulative terror. At one point, he finds himself captive aboard a plane, knowing nothing about Ethan Hunt. He responds to the situation by making a single, chilling threat; Hunt retaliates by hanging him out a cargo door, and Luther (Ving Rhames) shouts Hunt’s first name, trying to stop him. Davian latches on: “What I’m selling, and who I’m selling to, is the last thing you should be concerned about, Ethan.” It’s clear who’s in control. The scene gets at the film’s single greatest asset, which is the tightness of its story, involving (wait for it…) characters in a plot driven by identifiable, believable motivations.”

Punq reaches 5,000 reviews! You’re officially the first member of the “5K Club”. Gratulerer, our Norwegian friend.

In an epic effort, Top10ner combined the average ratings (critics’ and users’) from IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and Letterboxd, and then weighted and tweaked the results with general film data from iCheckMovies and IMDb to reveal the 1,001 Greatest Movies of All Time.

Here’s a poster gallery of the highest-rated film on Letterboxd for every year, all the way back to the 1920s.

And proving that even less-than-popular films on Letterboxd can find love, Less Than (Five) Zero is a regular column that looks at films that have received fewer than 50 watches on Letterboxd.

Take another look at Aliens through the lens of the Bechdel Test.

Here’s a list that will make you feel like dancing.