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24 Beats I Get Knocked Down2
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March 28, 2022

24 Beats per Second sees SXSW honor music through film

The festival's music documentary sidebar pays tribute to music legends ranging from Ronnie James Dio to Tanya Tucker.
SXSW Documentary Master of Light2
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March 27, 2022

2022’s SXSW documentary competition boasts a wealth of fine films

The festival's documentary selection includes features on everything from post-incarceration life to Pez-related crimes.
To LeslieS
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March 20, 2022

SXSW 2022: To Leslie is familiar, but its eye is unflinching and its compassion deep

Andrea Riseborough and Marc Maron shine in a study of a one-time lottery winner years after her life has gone bust.
The PrankS
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March 20, 2022

SXSW 2022: The Prank wastes a devilish turn from Rita Moreno

The living legend's vicious physics teacher is the only part of this dark comedy to make the grade.
The CowS
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March 18, 2022

SXSW 2022: The Cow should be put out to pasture

Winona Ryder is the sole saving grace in The Cow, an unnecessarily convoluted mystery with a distastefully archaic view of women & aging
stay the nightS
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March 18, 2022

SXSW 2022: Stay the Night is a pleasant Canadian romantic excursion

Not quite as good as the films it mimics, Stay the Night still has several charms of its own
PiratesS
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March 18, 2022

SXSW 2022: Pirates travels generic high seas of New Year’s Eve mischief

The backdrop of an impending new millennium can't jump start this comedy's creative juices
Spin Me RoundS
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March 17, 2022

SXSW 2022: Spin Me Round wastes its promising comedic ingredients

Jeff Baena’s lifeless mysterious comedy will leave you scratching your head in all the wrong ways
Diamond HandsS
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March 17, 2022

SXSW 2022: Diamond Hands isn’t rich with insight, but flush in entertainment

The GameStonks debacle is competently, but not distinctively, chronicled in this documentary
Still Workign 9 to 5S
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March 14, 2022

SXSW 2022: Still Working 9 to 5 has too much on its agenda

A successful behind the scenes look at the classic workplace comedy falls short as a sober documentary about the modern feminist movement