SXSW Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews

The 2024 SXSW Movie Competition kicked off March 8 in Austin with the opening-night world premiere screening of Doug Liman’s Highway Home remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor. It began 9 days of debuts together with for motion pictures starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael García Bernal, Kristen Stewart and extra. The Anne Hathaway romantic dramedy The Thought of You from SXSW stalwart Michael Showalter will shut the fest.

SXSW runs via March 16 within the Texas capital.

Preserve checking again beneath as Deadline evaluations the most effective and buzziest motion pictures of the pageant. Click on on the titles to learn the complete evaluations.

3 Physique Drawback

Part: TV PremiereDirector: Derek TsangCast: Jovan Adepo, John Bradley, Rosalind Chao, Liam Cunningham, Eiza González, Jess Hong, Marlo Kelly, Alex Sharp, Sea Shimooka, Zine Tseng, Saamer Usmani, Benedict Wong, Jonathan PryceDeadline’s takeaway: 3 Physique Drawback’s largest existential threats are simply how redundant all of it appears, and the way each plot improvement might be seen from a galaxy away, like Omar Sharif coming over the desert on horseback in Lawrence of Arabia.

Highway Home

Part: HeadlinersDirector: Doug LimanCast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim de Almeida, Conor McGregor, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro, B.Ok. Cannon, Beau Knapp, Darren Barnet, Dominique Columbus, Bob Menery, Catfish Jean, Kevin Carroll, Travis Van Winkle, Hannah LanierDeadline’s takeaway: In spite of some flashes of technical brilliance in its motion sequences and some tries made by its forged, this rebuilt Highway Home stands as a testomony to only how troublesome it’s to seize lightning in a bottle.

Timestalker

Part: Narrative SpotlightDirector: Alice LoweCast: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Nick FrostDeadline’s takeaway: The formidable movie recollects traditional Monty Python — it’s typically very, very silly and the identical time very, very intelligent — however most of all, it’s an thought of what may need been if that all-male group had ever had a girl or two in its core lineup. Someway, Alice Lowe has the wide-eyed innocence to hold all of it off, a really subversive present certainly.

We Have been Harmful

Part: Narrative FeatureDirector: Josephine Stewart-Te WhiuCast: Rima Te Wiata, Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia HallDeadline’s takeaway: We Have been Harmful by no means fairly comes collectively because the wry, subversive coming-of-age film that it may need been, however the performances are highly effective sufficient in Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s debut that its emotional heft is surprisingly indelible.