SXSW 2024: Movie Scorecard
The 2024 South By Southwest Film Festival will be in full effect from March 8 to 16, with over 115 features and 80 short films on screen. With our SXSW 2024 Movie Scorecard, we’re featuring every movie that got enough reviews for a Tomatometer that’s playing the Austin fest. Check it out below, on top of our guide to 22 movies we can’t wait to see, which includes Cheech & Chong’s Lstt Movie, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt’s The Fall Guy, Sydney Sweeney’s Immaculate, Dev Patel directorial debut Monkey Man, and the Road House remake.
#1
Critics Consensus: Offering an uproariously unvarnished look at motherhood and female friendships, Babes finds Pamela Adlon making an assured feature-length directorial debut with a big assist from stars Ilana Glazer and Michelle Buteau.
Synopsis: BABES follows inseparable childhood friends Eden (Ilana Glazer) and Dawn (Michelle Buteau), having grown up together in NYC, now firmly
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#2
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: MY DEAD FRIEND ZOE is a dark comedy drama that follows the journey of Merit (Sonequa Martin-Green), a U.S. Army
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#3
Critics Consensus: A startling example of using any tools at your disposal to make memorable art, Grand Theft Hamlet's experimental approach does justice by the Bard.
Synopsis: In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, two out-of-work actors, Sam and Mark, face a bleak future. Desperate for purpose,
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#4
Critics Consensus: An elegant and spooky ghost story punctuated with clever jolts, Oddity hews to the fundamentals of fright and achieves shout-inducing results.
Synopsis: When Dani is brutally murdered at the remote country house that she and her husband Ted are renovating, everyone suspects
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#5
Critics Consensus: Leveraging fantasy to explore how bad life choices are evergreen, Timestalker is a clever and imaginative sophomore feature from director and star Alice Lowe.
Synopsis: Timestalker follows hapless heroine Agnes through time as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, gets
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#6
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In 2003, eight Rhode Islanders created a secret apartment inside the busy Providence Place Mall and kept it going for
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#7
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An American couple, on the verge of adopting a baby, goes on an Italian vacation -- an opportunity to reconnect
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Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
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Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In unearthing the revolutionary synthesizer her late father invented in the 1970s, Alison Tavel not only revives his mission to
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#11
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#12
Critics Consensus: An audacious effort from debuting director Dev Patel, Monkey Man dispenses action and sociopolitical commentary with equal aplomb.
Synopsis: Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, an icon embodying strength and courage, Monkey Man stars Dev Patel as Kid, an
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#14
Critics Consensus: With action, comedy, romance, and a pair of marvelously matched stars, The Fall Guy might be the rare mainstream movie with something to entertain everyone.
Synopsis: He's a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and
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#15
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
#16
Critics Consensus: Led by a trio of strong performances, Arcadian blends family drama and post-apocalyptic horror to visceral, emotionally stirring effect.
Synopsis: In a near future, life on Earth has been decimated. Paul (Nicolas Cage) and his twin teenage sons, Thomas (Jaeden
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#17
Critics Consensus: Tough and unsettling by design, Civil War is a gripping close-up look at the violent uncertainty of life in a nation in crisis.
Synopsis: From filmmaker Alex Garland comes a journey across a dystopian future America, following a team of military-embedded journalists as they
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#18
Critics Consensus: Lead by another bloody fantastic performance from Samara Weaving, Azrael sacrifices depth on the altar of storytelling economy but delivers pure adrenaline in the bargain.
Synopsis: In a world in which no one speaks, a mysterious, devout community hunts down a young woman named Azrael (Samara
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#19
Critics Consensus: Directed with inventive flair by Tilman Singer while given flavorful personality by stars Hunter Schafer and Dan Stevens, Cuckoo is a madcap madhouse horror that's on the right side of deranged.
Synopsis: Reluctantly, 17-year-old Gretchen leaves her American home to live with her father, who has just moved into a resort in
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#21
Critics Consensus: Road House updates a cult classic for a new generation, happily replicating the original's emphasis on cheesy brawn over narrative brains.
Synopsis: In this adrenaline-fueled reimagining of the 80s cult classic, ex-UFC fighter Dalton (Jake Gyllenhaal) takes a job as a bouncer
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#22
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: From reporters to lawyers to politicians, many have attempted to define Stormy Daniels. Stormy tells the unvarnished truth about an
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#23
Critics Consensus: Immaculate in conception if not always in execution, this religiously themed horror outing is saved by a divine performance from Sydney Sweeney.
Synopsis: Sydney Sweeney (Anyone But You, Euphoria, The White Lotus) stars as Cecilia, an American nun of devout faith, embarking on
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#24
Critics Consensus: Y2K earns points for ambition and sheer audacity, even if it struggles to keep the laughs coming while maintaining a messy tonal blend.
Synopsis: On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves
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