Universal Studios released a surprising post on X early this morning announcing that the company is actively searching for a new director. While that may seem ordinary, the studio’s chosen hiring platform is not.

Universal said it will scout talent on the cinephile-favorite app Letterboxd, where users log films and craft carefully curated reviews. For years, movie lovers have documented every screening as if their film career depended on it. Now, it may.

The app is beginning to resemble “The Hunger Games,” if the tributes were NYU Tisch and Emerson College film students. “May the odds be ever in their favor” might apply, but statistically speaking, the odds rarely favor film majors. Only about 1% to 2% of students achieve lasting professional success in filmmaking.

To gauge reaction to the hiring tactic — the pressure it may create and whether “The Housemaid” was actually good or simply memorable for a Sydney Sweeney sex scene — I turned to my friend Sean Buck, who saw the film with me.

“Sydney Sweeney’s sex scene was the good part of the movie,” Buck said. “… and the ending was alright. I already forgot the plot of the movie, but I know Sydney Sweeney was in it.”

In related Letterboxd news, J.J. Abrams appeared less than thrilled with the new approach, posting: “So my decades of experience will be replaced by Auteur_Energy14 who gave The Force Awakens a star and a half?”

I also spoke with avid Letterboxd user and self-described “expert” film critic Jason Lee Hook, who said he maintains a strict quota of three films per day, enforced by what he called a “dreadful anticipation” of self-castration if he fails to meet it.

When asked about the growing pressure his Letterboxd reviews could place on his career prospects, Hook said, “This news might be my final straw. I already live in fear that my girlfriend will discover all of my reviews that expose our deeply personal sex life.”

He added that he worries his Letterboxd entries could now determine whether he secures his dream job: “directing the sequel to the Melania documentary.”

When asked about Sweeney, Hook replied, “Hooky don’t play that,” ending the interview.

Whether you are a film student critiquing classmates in screenwriting workshops or a single parent logging romantic comedies, you may finally have a chance to bring your ideas to the big screen. So think twice before reviewing “Star Wars” as “Post-Kurosawa incestslop.”