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SXSW Film & TV Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Reviews
The 2024 SXSW Film Festival kicked off March 8 in Austin with the opening-night world premiere screening of Doug Liman’s Road House remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor. It started nine days of debuts including for movies starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael García Bernal, Kristen…
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‘Desert Road’ Review: Horror Meets Sci-Fi In A Ghost Story With Soul – SXSW
The real story begins long before you know it in Desert Road, a very smart, trippy chiller that plays with the conventions of survival horror and takes them in a wholly unexpected and, ultimately, really quite moving direction. Making her directorial debut…
‘Sew Torn’ Review: Freddy Macdonald’s Strange, Striking Neo-Noir Is A Great Discovery – SXSW
"Choices, choices…," says the narrator, a young seamstress, in this strange and striking debut from Freddy Macdonald. A neo-noir in the early Coens tradition, Sew Torn also features a bold tri-part structure in which the heroine, Barbara (Eve Connolly) — like Lola before her in Tom Tykwer's Run Lola Run…
‘Grand Theft Hamlet’ Review: To Be Or Not To Be Shot While Staging A Shakespeare Classic – SXSW
For the most recent precedent for Grand Theft Hamlet, you'd probably have to go back nearly 20 years, to a 2006 episode of South Park. Titled “Make Love, Not Warcraft,” it found Cartman marshaling his friends to take on a super-advanced rogue player with a…
Fido Awards 2024: ‘Anatomy Of A Fall’ Star Messi Finally Gets His Oscar Moment
After Justine Triet's Anatomy of a Fall powered its way to five Oscar nominations, it was a common feeling that the film's MVP was short-changed on the big night. Though the film went home with Best Original Screenplay, Messi — the seven-year-old border collie who plays Snoop, the family dog who becomes…
Oscars In Memoriam: Lance Reddick, Cormac McCarthy, Treat Williams, Norman Lear, Frederic Forrest & Burt Young Relegated To Fine Print In Underwhelming Segment
Andrea Bocelli performed a rendition of the song “Time to Say Goodbye” with his son Matteo Bocelli to accompany the Academy's annual obituary section. Perhaps mindful of previous years, in which eagle-eyed viewers have jumped on omissions, this year's "In Memoriam" — which began with footage of the…
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‘We Were Dangerous’ Review: Teenage Girls Rebel In A ’50s-Set Coming-Of-Age Story – SXSW
We Were Dangerous begins so strongly and so confidently that it promises to take a grim but familiar period movie trope — the victimization of vulnerable young women in an authoritarian, male-dominated, post-war Christian world — and turn it inside out…
‘Timestalker’ Review: Alice Lowe’s Python-esque Anti-Romcom Is A Dark And Bloody Delight – SXSW
Love never dies, but a lot of people do in Alice Lowe's gloriously bloody valentine to the romantic comedy. Spanning so much time that it practically goes back to the beginning of it, Timestalker is an ambitious project that not only works, it coheres in a way that cements Lowe as a genuine and quite…
‘Cabrini’ Review: A Solemn Old-School Biopic Of America’s First Saint
They say that conflict is the essence of drama, and in this handsome but impossibly somber biopic there is almost nothing but conflict. Following up last year's surprise hit Sound of Freedom, director Alejandro Monteverde neatly sidesteps a repeat of that…
Steve McQueen And Isabelle Huppert Honored At The Dublin International Film Festival
Prior to making headlines the next day after a short-lived health scare that required a brief stay in hospital, Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins arrived at Dublin's Complex arts center last Wednesday to present the Dublin film festival's highest honor to Steve McQueen. Introduced in 2007 and named…
The Teachers’ Lounge’: Director Ilker Çatak Reflects On The International Appeal Of His Intense Schoolroom Drama
Of the five international films shortlisted for the Oscars, The Teachers' Lounge has had the longest legs. Debuting at the 2023 Berlinale — and not even in competition — Ilker Çatak's provocative thriller has been a fixture on the festival circuit ever since. Channeling the dark spirit of Michael Haneke…
Berlin Film Festival 2024: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 74th edition February 15 with the opening-night world premiere screening of Small Things Like These, the Irish drama starring Oscar-nominated Oppenheimer star Cillian Murphy. It started 10 days of debuts including for movies starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert…
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