SXSW Reviews – Page 3
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Reviews‘The Fallout’: SXSW Review
SXSW’s top narrative prize-winner examines the aftermath of a school shooting in an indirect but powerful way
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Reviews‘Violet’: SXSW Review
Justine Bateman’s debut drama is about a Hollywood film executive who has to deal with her demanding - and demeaning - inner voice
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Reviews‘The Drover’s Wife The Legend Of Molly Johnson’: SXSW Review
Leah Purcell directs and stars and writes this Outback revenge thriller based on her own stageplay of an 19th century story
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Reviews‘Swan Song’: SXSW Review
Udo Kier stars in this touching story of a retired Ohio hairdresser on one last job
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Reviews‘The Feast’: SXSW Review
Welsh-language debut from Lee Haven-Jones is a slow-burn genre offering
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Reviews‘The Return: Life After Isis’: SXSW Review
In a desolate camp in Northern Syria, stateless ‘Isis Brides’ open up to Alba Sotorra’s sympathetic lens
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Reviews‘Paul Dood’s Deadly Lunch Break’: SXSW Review
A hapless outsider dreams of celebrity in Nick Gillespie’s broad black British comedy
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Reviews‘Here Before’: SXSW Review
Andrea Riseborough stars in Stacey Gregg’s supernatural-themed debut
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Reviews‘I’m Fine (Thanks For Asking)’: SXSW Review
A young single mother tries to make ends meet during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Reviews‘The Lost Sons’: SXSW Review
A famous kidnap victim discovered he has never really been found
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Reviews‘Ma Belle, My Beauty’: SXSW Review
Marion Hill’s France-set debut focuses on the romantic longings of a tangled trio
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Reviews‘Socks On Fire’: IDFA Review
A gay Southern film-maker comes to terms with a dramatic family rift
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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