SXSW: Film

SXSW 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Together</i>
SXSW Film Review: Together
Real spouses Brie and Franco are magnificent in adult horror

March 16, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Arrest the Midwife</i>
SXSW Film Review: Arrest the Midwife
Midwives on trial, women’s rights and safety at stake

March 15, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>On Swift Horses</i>
SXSW Film Review: On Swift Horses
In 1950s America, identity is imposed rather than discovered

March 15, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Luv Ya, Bum!</i>
SXSW Film Review: Luv Ya, Bum!
How Houston Oilers coach Bum Phillips led with kindness

March 14, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Idiotka</i>
SXSW Film Review: Idiotka
Girls just want to Slay, Serve, and Survive

March 13, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror</i>
SXSW Film Review: Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Charming doc reflects on the 50-year-old phenomenon

March 13, 2025

Taking the John Waters Route to Female Sexuality in <i>Fucktoys</i>
Taking the John Waters Route to Female Sexuality in Fucktoys
Embracing the “kinky and smutty and a little slutty”

March 13, 2025

Braving the Wintry Mix of <i>The Baltimorons</i>
Braving the Wintry Mix of The Baltimorons
Jay Duplass gets back to directing with an unlikely Christmas movie

March 13, 2025

SXSW Announces 2025 Film & TV Festival Award Winners
SXSW Announces 2025 Film & TV Festival Award Winners
Good Boy’s Indy fetches “Howl of Fame” honors

March 12, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Cotton Candy Bubble Gum</i>
SXSW Film Review: Cotton Candy Bubble Gum
Carter, 21 and living at home, navigates a chaotic, funny day

March 12, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>The Python Hunt</i>
SXSW Film Review: The Python Hunt
How a man-made ecological disaster may be hiding a much worse sin

March 12, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Descendent</i>
SXSW Film Review: Descendent
Alien abduction drama probes trauma, parenthood

March 12, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Are We Good?</i>
SXSW Film Review: Are We Good?
In candid doc, Marc Maron opens up about grief

March 12, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>For Worse</i>
SXSW Film Review: For Worse
A divorced woman over 50 vs. the millennials in her life

March 11, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>My Uncle Jens</i>
SXSW Film Review: My Uncle Jens
Norwegian film finds humor and compassion in immigration

March 11, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Assembly</i>
SXSW Film Review: Assembly
Doc suggests AI & art work together as agents of resistance

March 10, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Shuffle</i>
SXSW Film Review: Shuffle
Harrowing documentary lens on Florida's broken rehab industry

March 10, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Reeling</i>
SXSW Film Review: Reeling
A Hawaiian party cracks under pressure from a tragic past

March 10, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Friendship</i>
SXSW Film Review: Friendship
Tim Robinson obsesses over Paul Rudd in A24 black comedy

March 10, 2025

Corrupting an Australian Paradise in <i>The Surfer</i>
Corrupting an Australian Paradise in The Surfer
Director Lorcan Finnegan on his new film with Nic Cage

March 10, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Real Faces</i>
SXSW Film Review: Real Faces
Quiet Belgian drama explores the boundaries of authenticity

March 9, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>The Dutchman</i>
SXSW Film Review: The Dutchman
Cerebral drama flips the script on Civil Rights era classic

March 9, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Good Boy</i>
SXSW Film Review: Good Boy
It's pet vs. poltergeist in ghost story with a twist

March 9, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Fantasy Life</i>
SXSW Film Review: Fantasy Life
The most Gen X movie in years stars a millennial and Amanda Peet

March 9, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>O'Dessa</i>
SXSW Film Review: O'Dessa
Bold rock opera dazzles but doesn’t quite land its allegory

March 9, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Slanted</i>
SXSW Film Review: Slanted
Amy Wang’s dystopian teen film is a thought-provoking debut

March 9, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Death of a Unicorn</i>
SXSW Film Review: Death of a Unicorn
Jenna Ortega stars in darkly absurd tale of carnage and corporate greed

March 9, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Zodiac Killer Project</i>
SXSW Film Review: Zodiac Killer Project
How to tell a true-crime story without cops or criminals

March 9, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>The Spies Among Us</i>
SXSW Film Review: The Spies Among Us
A historian investigates the Stasi’s legacy of brutality

March 8, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>One More Shot</i>
SXSW Film Review: One More Shot
Emily Browning is a delight in a Groundhog Day-style romp

March 8, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Sweetness</i>
SXSW Film Review: Sweetness
Teenage dreams become a harsh reality for one pop star

March 8, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Baby Doe</i>
SXSW Film Review: Baby Doe
An empathetic look at pregnancy denial and its consequences

March 8, 2025

Tugging at True-Crime's Seams in SXSW Doc <i>Zodiac Killer Project</i>
Tugging at True-Crime's Seams in SXSW Doc Zodiac Killer Project
Charlie Shackleton on genre conventions, and why he subverted them

March 8, 2025

A Dog’s View of Evil in SXSW Midnighter <i>Good Boy</i>
A Dog’s View of Evil in SXSW Midnighter Good Boy
Director Ben Leonberg on channeling Poltergeist and White Fang

March 8, 2025

SXSW Drama <i>American Sweatshop</i> Contemplates the Extreme Content That Can’t Be Unseen
SXSW Drama American Sweatshop Contemplates the Extreme Content That Can’t Be Unseen
Director Uta Briesewitz on the power of images for good and evil

March 8, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>Another Simple Favor</i>
SXSW Film Review: Another Simple Favor
Like con artists, sequels to even campy crime can be tricky

March 7, 2025

SXSW Film Review: <i>The Threesome</i>
SXSW Film Review: The Threesome
This modern rom-com takes itself seriously ... but not too seriously

March 7, 2025

In <i>I Really Love My Husband</i>, a Couple Becomes a Throuple
In I Really Love My Husband, a Couple Becomes a Throuple
GG Hawkins on her SXSW debut and DIY filmmaking

March 7, 2025

In SXSW Documentary <i>Other Side</i>, an Activist Fights to the End for Access to Medical Aid in Dying
In SXSW Documentary Other Side, an Activist Fights to the End for Access to Medical Aid in Dying
Lynda Bluestein’s battle to die on her own terms

March 7, 2025

The Light in the Tragedy of <i>Magic Hour</i>
The Light in the Tragedy of Magic Hour
Katie Aselton unpacks grief and love in her SXSW film

March 6, 2025

Inside the Unspeakable Killings That Changed Austin Forever
Inside the Unspeakable Killings That Changed Austin Forever
Margaret Brown explores the tragedy and lingering trauma in four-part series The Yogurt Shop Murders

March 6, 2025

The Criterion Closet Heads to SXSW
The Criterion Closet Heads to SXSW
Mobile version of popular web series makes its first trip outside of NY

Feb. 19, 2025

SXSW 2025 Heads to <i>The Studio</i> With Seth Rogen
SXSW 2025 Heads to The Studio With Seth Rogen
New films from Ben Affleck, Nicole Kidman, Nic Cage added to fest

Jan. 22, 2025

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