SXSW Reviews
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Reviews‘Adam’s Apple’ review: Intimate, expertly-crafted doc celebrates power of family and identity
Multidisciplinary artist Amy Jenkins filmed with her transgender son, Adam over the course of eight years
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Reviews‘Stormbound’ review: Jaw-dropping IMAX doc journeys into the eye of the storm
Director Miko Lim’s portrait of US storm chaser Jeff Gammons won a SXSW special jury award
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Reviews‘Wishful Thinking’ review: Maya Hawke and Lewis Pullman feel the power of love in potent SXSW winner
The feature debut of writer/director Graham Parkes won SXSW’s narrative feature prize
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Reviews‘The Peril At Pincer Point’ review: Charming, surrealist UK debut is sharp satire of creative ambition
Filmmaker Jake Kuhn and Noah Stratton-Twine’s SXSW title pays warm homage to classic British cinema
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Reviews‘DreamQuil’ review: Elizabeth Banks shoulders dual role in detached retro-futuristic drama
The feature debut from visual artist Alex Prager also stars John C Reilly, Kathryn Newton and Juliette Lewis
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Reviews‘Forbidden Fruits’ review: Horror comedy about Texas teen witches casts a campy, playful spell
Diablo Cody produces Meredith Alloway’s SXSW premiere
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Reviews‘Hokum’ review: Adam Scott embarks on a nightmarish trip in chilling horror from Ireland’s Damian McCarthy
The filmmaker’s follow-up to ’Oddity’ premieres at SXSW before May theatrical opening
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Reviews‘The Fox’ review: Olivia Colman lends her voice to underpowered offbeat Australian satire
Dario Russo’s debut feature also stars Jai Courtney, Emily Browning and Sam Neill.
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Reviews‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ review: Vince Vaughn and James Marsden head riotous time travel comedy
BenDavid Grabinski’s SXSW premiere also stars Eliza González and Keith David
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Reviews‘Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’ review: Samara Weaving returns in bloody, bland horror sequel
SXSW premiere also stars David Cronenberg, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Elijah Wood
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Reviews‘I Love Boosters’ review: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie and Taylour Paige anchor Boots Riley’s anarchic SXSW opener
LaKeith Stanfield, Demi Moore and Don Cheadle also star in riotous pro-union comedy
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Reviews‘Good Boy’ review: Dog’s eye-view haunted house horror has plenty of bite
US filmmaker Ben Leonberg’s impressive debut is told from the point of view of its canine protagonist
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Reviews‘Slanted’ review: SXSW winner is a teen body horror based on ethnicity
Amy Wang’s comedic debut won SXSW’s Narrative Grand Jury Prize
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Reviews‘Hallow Road’ review: Babak Anvari drives dangerously with Rosamund Pike, Matthew Rhys
Close-quarters SXSW chiller is also a portrait of a marriage
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Reviews‘Ash’ review: Flying Lotus sci-fi stars Aaron Paul and Eiza Gonzalez
The musician’s second feature is both visually and aurally distinctive
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Reviews‘Holland’ review: Nicole Kidman is a desperate housewife in Mimi Cave’s suburban thriller
Matthew Macfadyen and Gael Garcia Bernal co-star in Prime mystery
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Reviews‘The Accountant 2’ review: Ben Affleck and returns with a wonkily winning formula
Gavin O’Connor follows up his 2016 action hit
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Reviews‘Another Simple Favor’ review: Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively return for uninspired sequel
Paul Feig’s follow-up to his 2018 frenemy thriller opens SXSW
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Reviews‘Death Of A Unicorn’ review: Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega star in mythical monster movie
Alex Scharfman’s uneven debut also stars Richard E Grant and Will Poulter
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Reviews‘Snow Leopard Sisters’ review: Indigenous conservationists fight for change in the high Himalayas
Nepal-set documentary bows at SXSW