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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 Review: No Sign Of Burnout In The Adventures Of Star-Lord And Co
There's a sense of an ending in part three of the Guardians trilogy, but not in the sense of the franchise actually, you know, coming to an end. Like almost all Marvel movies these days, it presents a continuum, giving all the main players an out while leaving the door wide open to a fourth iteration…
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‘The Eight Mountains’: Felix Van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeesch’s Cannes Grand Jury Prize Co-Winner
Editors note: This review was originally published May 18 after its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival where it co-won the Jury Prize. It opens in New York theaters Friday.
After breaking out internationally in 2012 with his Oscar-nominated…
‘Sick Of Myself’ Review: Kristoffer Borgli’s Satire On Society And The Celebrity Of Victimhood
Editors note: This review was originally published May 22 after its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. The film opened in New York on Wednesday and today in Los Angeles.
Timing can be cruel. Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli's second…
Quentin Tarantino Hits 60: Edgar Wright and Jamie Foxx Lead Celebrations At The London Palladium
Quentin Tarantino turns 60 today, and to celebrate the fact he was ambushed with cake by Jamie Foxx in front of 2,000 people at the London Palladium last night. Don't go looking online for photographs of the occasion, though: the surprise came at the end of a two-night event promoting the director's…
SXSW 2023: All Of Deadline’s Movie Reviews
The SXSW Film & TV Festival has returned to Austin, and Deadline’s reviewers are watching all the key films. Here is a compilation of our reviews from the fest, which last year was the launchpad for newly-minted Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All at Once. The Daniels’ wild sci-fi action comedy is the…
‘Parachute’ Review: Life After Rehab In Brittany Snow’s Directing Debut – SXSW
There's a lot going on in this troubled-girl-on-a-journey story, which recalls the late-'90s proliferation of books like Elizabeth Wurtzel's Prozac Nation and Susanna Kaysen's Girl, Interrupted. Brittany Snow's directing debut doesn't so much add to that…
‘Story Ave’ Review: Asante Blackk Stands Out In An Old-School N.Y. ’Hood Drama – SXSW
Naming a young Black man's story after a transport stop gives off strong Fruitvale vibes, but Aristotle Torres' feature debut reaches back further to the hip-hop morality tales of the early '90s, like Boaz Yakin's Fresh or Ernest Dickerson's Juice — the wave…
‘The New Americans: Gaming A Revolution’ Review: Ondi Timoner’s Provocative Doc Previews The World That Awaits Us – SXSW
Wanna feel old? Contrary to popular depictions of millennial youth as being disenfranchised, politically feckless and bone idle, the eye-opening documentary The New Americans: Gaming a Revolution might be the bazooka that's needed to shatter all those cozy…
‘Frybread Face And Me’ Review: Billy Luther’s Memoir Turns His Authentic Experience As An Indigenous American Into An Evocative, All-Inclusive Meditation On Childhood – SXSW
There are a lot of films based on personal experience at this year's SXSW, and Billy Luther's narrative feature debut Frybread Face and Me is one of the few that actually makes you wish it could go on longer. Using his authentic experience as a rough map…
‘You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder’ Review: Clara And Ewan McGregor Shine In Emma Westenberg’s Low-Key Father-Daughter Drama – SXSW
Making a movie with your own child is perilous enough at a time when the media, which is stuffed with them, has decided that "nepo babies" are the latest blight on the eco-system of filmmaking. It's even more of a risk when your private life has been…
‘If You Were The Last’ Review: Kristian Mercado’s Lo-fi Rom-Com Gets Lost In Space – SXSW
There are lots of ways to pitch If You Were the Last. How about "Michel Gondry remakes When Harry Met Sally — in space!" Who wouldn't want to see that? But for all the ingenious hot takes one can dream up for Kristian Mercado's ambitious feature-length…
‘Scrambled’ Review: Leah McKendrick’s Darkly Funny Mid-Life Confessional Suffers A Severe Case Of T.M.I. – SXSW
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the trampy heroine of any modern female-slanted rom-com must make Bridget Jones look like Grace Kelly by comparison. And while Leah McKendrick's feature debut offers more caustic com than rom, it leans hard into…
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