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The 2024 SXSW Movie Pageant 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 films 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 by means of March 16 within the Texas capital.
Preserve checking again beneath as Deadline evaluations the perfect and buzziest films of the competition. Click on on the titles to learn the total evaluations.
3 Physique Downside
‘3 Physique Downside’
Netflix
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 Downside’s largest existential threats are simply how redundant all of it appears, and the way each plot improvement could be seen from a galaxy away, like Omar Sharif coming over the desert on horseback in Lawrence of Arabia.
Highway Home
‘Highway Home’
Prime Video
Part: HeadlinersDirector: Doug LimanCast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim de Almeida, Conor McGregor, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro, B.Okay. 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 solid, this rebuilt Highway Home stands as a testomony to only how tough it’s to seize lightning in a bottle.
Timestalker
Aneurin Barnard and Alice Lowe in ‘Timestalker’
Ludovic Robert/HanWay
Part: Narrative SpotlightDirector: Alice LoweCast: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Nick FrostDeadline’s takeaway: The bold movie remembers basic Monty Python — it’s typically very, very silly and the identical time very, very intelligent — however most of all, it’s an concept of what might need been if that all-male crew had ever had a girl or two in its core lineup. By some means, Alice Lowe has the wide-eyed innocence to hold all of it off, a really subversive present certainly.
We Have been Harmful
‘We Have been Harmful’
SXSW
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 might need been, however the performances are highly effective sufficient in Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s debut that its emotional heft is surprisingly indelible.