SXSW Reviews – Page 4
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Reviews‘Saint Frances’: Review
After some Covid turbulence, Kelly O’Sullivan’s endearing feature will finally show on the big screen
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Reviews‘Shithouse’ (aka ‘Freshman Year’): SXSW Review
Cooper Raiff’s debut feature wins the online narrative feature competition at SxSW
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Reviews‘Critical Thinking’: Review
John Leguizamo’s directorial debut is the true story of an unlikely championship chess team
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Reviews‘She Dies Tomorrow’: SXSW Review
A woman’s belief that she is going to die the following day may not just be paranoia in Amy Seimetz’s effective drama
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Reviews'1985': Review
A sober black-and-white look at being gay in conservative Texas in the titular timeframe
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Reviews'Walk With Me': Review
Benedict Cumberbatch narrates this unusual documentary about a spiritual retreat in France under the guidance of renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh
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Reviews'Song Of Granite': Review
Strikingly beautiful, Pat Collins’ unconventional portrait of a traditional sean nós singer is shot mostly in the Irish language.
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Reviews'The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin': Review
A nostalgia-tinged look at the writer of the beloved Tales of the City series
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Reviews'Fashionista': Review
Amanda Fuller makes the most of an astonishing showcase role in Simon Rumley’s latest genre-blurring project
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Reviews'Most Beautiful Island': SXSW review
Winner of the grand jury prize at South By Southwest, Ana Asensio’s immigrant horror is clammily authentic
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Reviews'Bill Nye: Science Guy': SXSW Review
Bill Nye takes on climate change deniers and creationists in this affectionate documentary
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Reviews'La Barracuda': SXSW Review
A thriller involving two half-sisters and their dead muscian father slow-burns in the oppressive Texas heat.
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Reviews'Tormentero': SXSW Review
A disgraced fisherman struggles with ghosts of the past in Mexican director Ruben Imaz’s fourth feature
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Reviews'I Am Another You': SXSW Review
‘Hooligan Sparrow’ director Nanfu Wang documents a trip across the United States with a Utah-born drifter
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Reviews'Gemini': SXSW Review
There may be Lynchian elements in this classic low-budget LA noir, but it’s Lola Kirke who impresses the most
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Reviews'A Critically Endangered Species': SXSW Review
Intimate, literary-focused chamber piece starring Lena Olin which premiered at South By Southwest
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Reviews'DRIB': SXSW review
A mockumentary about Amir Asgharnejad’s media campaign for a soft drink takes effective aim at fake news
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Reviews'Signature Move': SXSW Review
For her big screen debut, web personality Fawzia Mirza plays a closeted Chicago lawyer by day, a smackdown “luchadora” wrestler by night.
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Reviews'Lane 1974': SXSW Review
The summer of love has long since turned sour in this affecting memoir of childhood in a Northern California commune
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Reviews'Us And Them': SXSW Review
Dir: Joe Martin. UK, 2017. 83 minsBritish short film and documentary maker Joe Martin (Keep Quiet) makes his feature debut with this timely - if rampantly unsubtle - drama, which takes the idea of class warfare to its most savage extremes when a disillusioned young social ...