SXSW 2021
‘WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn’: Film Review
Jed Rothstein directs an overview of the rise and fall of WeWork and its megalomaniacal co-founder Adam Neumann.
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‘Best Summer Ever’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
Boy meets girl in this high school musical with an emphasis on inclusivity, directed by Michael Parks Randa and Lauren Smitelli.
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‘Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
Sarah and Emily Kunstler helm a documentary version of ACLU attorney Jeffery Robinson's talk on the deep roots of white supremacy in American history.
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‘Spring Valley’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
Garrett Zevgetis chronicles the aftermath of a 2015 viral incident in which a white school officer assaulted a Black 16-year-old student in her math class.
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‘Alone Together’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
Singer Charli XCX decides to make an album in five weeks in quarantine while crowdsourcing much of the process to fans and filming every bumpy moment of it.
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‘Here Before’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
Andrea Riseborough stars as a mother living in a Belfast suburb who becomes obsessed with the little girl next door in writer-director Stacey Gregg's feature debut.
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‘Violet’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
Olivia Munn toplines Justine Bateman's feature directorial debut, the story of a Hollywood executive's struggle to turn off the hostile voice in her head and live a more authentic life.
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‘The Hunt for Planet B’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
'My Architect' director Nathaniel Kahn chronicles the making of the James Webb Space Telescope, as well as the key people behind it.
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‘The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
Leah Purcell's Australian Western reimagines a classic of colonial literature from an Indigenous feminist perspective, depicting the struggles of an 1890s woman suspended between two cultures.
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‘Swan Song’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
Udo Kier plays a flamboyant small-town Ohio hairdresser who escapes his nursing home to style his estranged former client for her funeral in Todd Stephens' tender comedy.
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‘United States vs. Reality Winner’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
Whistleblower Reality Winner, tried under the Espionage Act for leaking documents to a media website, gets a documentary showcase that looks beyond her funny name.
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‘The Feast’: Film Review | SXSW 2021
A vengeful mythical spirit gets in on the clash between nature and industry in Lee Haven Jones' Welsh-language horror debut about a dinner party-turned-bloodbath.
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