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SXSW '25: The Accountant 2
SXSW '25: The Accountant 2

Truth be told, this reviewer didn’t care for The Accountant 2.

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Reviews, SXSWBlake WilliamsApril 21, 2025The Accountant 2, Ben Affleck, Jon Berenthal, Gavin O’ConnorComment
SXSW '25: Deepfaking Sam Altman
SXSW '25: Deepfaking Sam Altman

What happens when the subject of your documentary wants nothing to do with you? Obviously, you use their own technology to create an AI version of them, and interview it in hopes of finding your answers.

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Reviews, SXSWBlake WilliamsApril 21, 2025Deepfaking Sam Altman, Adam Bhala Lough, Sam Altman, OpenAIComment
This Week in Screenings 4/18-4/24
This Week in Screenings 4/18-4/24

This week in Austin screenings 4/18-4/24.

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Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldApril 18, 2025Comment
Movies of The Moment
Movies of The Moment

The following films are all concerned with forces that exist beyond the scope of their narratives.

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Reviews, ListsAdrian PittsApril 17, 2025The Killer, Bama Rush, Knock at The Cabin, Until the End of the World, AGGRO DRIFT, List, Movies, Moment Comment
Soderbergh is Back in his (Black) Bag
Soderbergh is Back in his (Black) Bag

Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh’s 36th feature, sees the director return to the thrills and sex appeal of his ‘90s output.

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Reviewsd. a. goellerApril 16, 2025Black Bag, Steven Soderbergh, Cate Blanchett, Michael FassbenderComment
SXSW '25: Idyllic days foster existential dread in Glorious Summer
SXSW '25: Idyllic days foster existential dread in Glorious Summer

In Glorious Summer, co-directors Helena Ganjalyan and Bartosz Szpak craft an ethereal vehicle to examine the pitfalls of blissful ignorance.

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Reviews, SXSWGabrielle SanchezApril 15, 2025Glorious Summer, Helena Ganjalyan, Bartosz SzpakComment
SXSW '25: Travis Gutiérrez Senger memorializes Chicano artistic vanguards in ASCO: Without Permission
SXSW '25: Travis Gutiérrez Senger memorializes Chicano artistic vanguards in ASCO: Without Permission

ASCO: Without Permission centers the revolutionary art collective and its cultural impact.

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Reviews, SXSWGabrielle SanchezApril 14, 2025Comment
SXSW '25: The Rivals of Amziah King
SXSW '25: The Rivals of Amziah King

The Rivals of Amziah King is one of the most strangely-paced films and thematically-incohesive films I’ve ever seen. That’s both to its benefit and its greatest flaw.

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Reviews, SXSWZiah GraceApril 14, 2025SXSW, Matthew McConaughey, The Rivals of Amziah King, Angelina LookingGlass, Andrew PattersonComment
SXSW '25: Snake wrangling and mans’ folly collide in The Python Hunt
SXSW '25: Snake wrangling and mans’ folly collide in The Python Hunt

The Python Hunt expertly delivers on its promises of humor and human interest.

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Reviews, SXSWGabrielle SanchezApril 14, 2025Xander Robin, The Python Hunt, SXSW, Florida, everglades, documentaryComment
SXSW ‘25: Surviving Earth
SXSW ‘25: Surviving Earth

Where some stories of addiction slip into melodrama and misery, Surviving Earth shows the reality of sobriety as a choice that’s made every single day.

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Reviews, SXSWAlix MamminaApril 14, 2025Surviving Earth, Slavko Sobin, Thea Gajić, Olive Gray, SXSW, addictionComment
SXSW '25: O’Dessa signifies nothing, and doesn’t even offer sound or fury
SXSW '25: O’Dessa signifies nothing, and doesn’t even offer sound or fury

With due respect paid, O’Dessa is awful.

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Reviews, SXSWJustin HarrisonApril 11, 2025O'Dessa, musical, Murray Bartlett, Regina Hall, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Sadie Sink, Geremy JasperComment
SXSW '25: LifeHack
SXSW '25: LifeHack

LifeHack is a good heist film, a good coming-of-age film, and a skillful deployment of screenlife as a storytelling technique.

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Reviews, SXSWJustin HarrisonApril 11, 2025LifeHack, Ronan Corrigan, screenlife, Georgie Farmer, Roman Hayeck Green, James Scholz, Yasmin Finney, Charlie Creed-Miles, Jessica Reynolds, cryptoComment
This Week in Screenings 4/11-4/17
This Week in Screenings 4/11-4/17

This week in Austin screenings, 4/11-4/17.

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Community ScreeningsJames McDonaldApril 11, 2025Comment
SXSW '25: The Infinite Husk: A sci-fi feature too cynical for its own good 
SXSW '25: The Infinite Husk: A sci-fi feature too cynical for its own good 

The Infinite Husk falters under the weight of its big philosophical ambitions, leaning too far into the pessimism of the human condition without actually exploring what it means to live and move through the world’s structures.

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Reviews, SXSWGabrielle SanchezApril 10, 2025Aaron Silverstein, SXSW, The Infinite Husk, science fiction, Peace Ikediuba, Circus-SzalewskiComment
SXSW '25: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, or, the Millennial's Ishtar (Complimentary)
SXSW '25: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, or, the Millennial's Ishtar (Complimentary)

Following its first screening, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie proved itself as the SXSW breakout of the year, with the word-of-mouth buzz resulting in a frenzy around the film’s second showtime.

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Reviews, SXSWGabrielle SanchezApril 10, 2025Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie, SXSW, Matt Johnson, Jay Jared, Jay McCarrol Comments
SXSW ‘25: Tim Robinson brings his off-kilter kookiness to the big screen in Friendship
SXSW ‘25: Tim Robinson brings his off-kilter kookiness to the big screen in Friendship

Friendship, which had its Texas Premiere at SXSW in 2025, is all about the strange amorphous heartbreak when a (mostly) heterosexual male friendship is ended. It’s also about star Tim Robinson continuing his streak of ego-less humiliation comedy.

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SXSW, ReviewsZiah GraceApril 9, 2025Friendship, SXSW, Paul Rudd, Tim RobinsonComment
SXSW '25: Slanted
SXSW '25: Slanted

Slanted does well to avoid the pitfall of many modern satires by avoiding an explicit morality tale or an ending that ties everything up with a bow and a preachy monologue.

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Reviews, SXSWAlix MamminaApril 9, 2025Slanted, Amy Wang, SXSW, Shirley Chen, Amelie Zilber, McKenna Grace, racial identityComment
SXSW '25: Arrest the Midwife is a Vibrant and Necessary Call to Action
SXSW '25: Arrest the Midwife is a Vibrant and Necessary Call to Action

Arrest The Midwife is a powerful reminder that we are all we have, that our similarities are more striking than our differences, and that the people we’ve helped can and will go on to help others.

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Reviews, Film FestsZiah GraceApril 8, 2025Elaine EpsteinComment
The 7 Best Springtime Movies to Stream
The 7 Best Springtime Movies to Stream

Happy spring! We’re celebrating the equinox with 7 springtime movies, from The Secret Garden to A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

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ListsJenni KayeApril 8, 2025spring, the secret garden, agnieszka holland, the young girls of rochefort, jacques demy, the tale of princess kaguya, isao takahata, the company of strangers, les blank, the secret of roan inish, a midsummer night's dreamComment
The Trip: Most Trips Have Highs and Lows
The Trip: Most Trips Have Highs and Lows

The Trip can be enjoyed because we should be able to enjoy a film for exactly what films are at their core: visually stimulating moving pictures that we resonate with.

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Reviews, AnalysisLola GarzaApril 7, 2025The Trip, Roger Corman, Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Susan StrabergComment
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