‘Road House’ remake and more

SXSW

The 2024 SXSW Film Festival kicked off on March 8 in Austin with the opening night world premiere of Doug Liman. road house Remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor. Nine days of debuts began, including for films starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael García Bernal, Kristen Stewart and more. Anne Hathaway’s romantic drama The idea of ​​you SXSW stalwart Michael Showalter will close the festival.

SXSW will run until March 16 in the Texas capital.

Continue checking back below as Deadline reviews the best and most popular films from the festival. Click on the titles to read the full reviews.

3 Body problem

Section: Television premiere
Director: Derek Tsang
Cast: 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 Pryce
Deadline Conclusion: 3 Problem of the body’The film’s biggest existential threats are how redundant everything seems and how every plot development can be seen from a galaxy away, like Omar Sharif crossing the desert on horseback in Lawrence of Arabia.

road house

Section: Headliners
Director: Doug Liman
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Daniela Melchior, Billy Magnussen, Jessica Williams, Joaquim de Almeida, Conor McGregor, Lukas Gage, Arturo Castro, BK Cannon, Beau Knapp, Darren Barnet, Dominique Columbus, Bob Menery, Catfish Jean, Kevin Carroll, Travis Van Winkle, Hannah Lanier
Deadline Conclusion: Despite some flashes of technical brilliance in its action sequences and some attempts by its cast, it is reconstructed road house It’s a testament to how difficult it is to capture lightning in a bottle.

time stalker

Section: Narrative focus
Director: Alicia Lowe
Cast: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Nick Frost
Deadline Conclusion: The ambitious film is reminiscent of the classic Monty Python (it’s often very, very stupid and at the same time very, very smart) but, above all, it’s an idea of ​​what could have been if that all-male team had ever had a woman. or two in their main lineup. Somehow, Alice Lowe has the enormous innocence to pull it off, a very subversive gift indeed.

we were dangerous

Section: Narrative feature
Director: Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu
Cast: Rima Te Wiata, Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia Hall
Deadline Conclusion: we were dangerous It never quite becomes the wry, subversive coming-of-age film it could have been, but the performances are powerful enough in Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s debut that its emotional weight is surprisingly indelible.