{"id":653503,"date":"2026-03-13T20:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/653503\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:59:21","slug":"all-of-deadlines-reviews-from-the-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/653503\/","title":{"rendered":"All Of Deadline’s Reviews From The Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe 2026\u00a0SXSW<\/a>\u00a0Film & TV Festival kicked off March 7, in Austin and features 49 world premieres among debuts. It\u2019s the first time the event has launched on a Thursday.<\/p>\n

\n\tBoots Riley\u2019s sci-fi comedy I Love Boosters<\/a> was the opening-night film<\/a>, and other anticipated films include Searchlight\u2019s Radio Silence sequel\u00a0Ready or Not 2: Here I Come,\u00a0New Line\u2019s Samara Weaving-Zazie Beetz horror action comedy\u00a0They Will Kill You, \u00a0Lionsgate\u2019s John Carney-directed music movie\u00a0Power Ballad<\/a>\u00a0starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas, the Vince Vaughn gangster pic\u00a0Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice and Jorma Taccone\u2019s couples-trying-to-kill-each-other pic Over Your Dead Body.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere is a compilation of Deadline\u2019s movie reviews from the 33rd anniversary fest, which runs through March 18 in the Texas capital. <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Naomi<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018I Love Boosters\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeon\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n

\n\tSection:<\/strong> Headliner
Director-screenwriter:<\/strong>\u00a0Boots Riley
Cast:<\/strong> Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Demi Moore
Deadline\u2019s takeaway:<\/strong> Boots Riley\u2019s sophomore feature is a surreal, hyperpop love letter to creatives living under capitalism that successfully captures the hopelessness of our current capitalist dystopia. The camp factor is evident in every frame. \u2014 GG<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Grind<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Grind\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tYellow Veil Pictures<\/p>\n

\n\tSection:<\/strong> Narrative Feature Competition
Directors: <\/strong>Brea Grant, Ed Dougherty, Chelsea Stardust
Cast: <\/strong>Barbara Crampton, Rob Huebel, Christopher Marquette, Jessika Van, Vinny Thomas, Mercedes Mason, Matt Mercer, Aubrey Shea
Deadline\u2019s takeaway:<\/strong> The ingenious horror-comedy anthology\u00a0achieves the almost unthinkable: while it delivers the requisite laughs and shocks \u2014 never an easy balance to strike, even at the best of times \u2014 it is just as effective in its jabs at the gig economy as anything by Britain\u2019s Ken Loach or any other director from the school of social realism. \u2014 DW<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"'Seekers<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Seekers of Infinite Love\u2019 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSXSW<\/p>\n

\n\tSection:<\/strong> Narrative Spotlight
Director-screenwriter:<\/strong>\u00a0Victoria Strouse
Cast:<\/strong> Hannah Einbinder, Justin Theroux, John Reynolds, Griffin Gluck, Justine Lupe, Greg Kinnear, David Ury, Michelle Johnston, Andrea Pyle
Deadline\u2019s takeaway:<\/strong> Smart, sharply written and directed comedies are a rare bird these days, but Victoria Strouse takes a situation that easily could have sailed over the top, cast it intelligently and created some outrageously funny situations. \u2014 PH<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Lewis<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Wishful Thinking<\/a>\u2018<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tChristopher Ripley<\/p>\n

\n\tSection:<\/strong> Narrative Feature Competition
Writer-director:<\/strong> Graham Parkes
Cast: <\/strong>Lewis Pullman, Maya Hawke, Randall Park, Jake Shane, Kate Berlant, Amita Rao, Eric Rahill
Deadline\u2019s takeaway:<\/strong> Wishful Thinking\u00a0is ultimately a dreamy romantic comedy about the lengths people will go for the ones they love, as well as the realization that they need inner harmony to foster a harmonious relationship with others. \u2014 GG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026\u00a0SXSW\u00a0Film & TV Festival kicked off March 7, in Austin and features 49 world premieres among debuts.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":653504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,240683,94376,67,132,68,86361],"class_list":["post-653503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-i-love-boosters","tag-sxsw","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wishful-thinking"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116223888748259771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}