‘Road House’ Remake & More

The 2024 SXSW Film Festival kicked off March 8 in Austin with the opening-night world premiere screening of Doug Liman’s Road House remake starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Conor McGregor. It began 9 days of debuts together with for films starring Rooney Mara, Isabelle Huppert, Gael García Bernal, Kristen Stewart and extra. The Anne Hathaway romantic dramedy The Idea of You from SXSW stalwart Michael Showalter will shut the fest.

SXSW runs via March 16 within the Texas capital.

Keep checking again beneath as Deadline evaluations the most effective and buzziest films of the competition. Click on the titles to learn the complete evaluations.

3 Body Problem

Section: TV 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’s takeaway: 3 Body Problem’s largest existential threats are simply how redundant all of it appears, and the way each plot improvement may be seen from a galaxy away, like Omar Sharif coming over 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, B.Okay. Cannon, Beau Knapp, Darren Barnet, Dominique Columbus, Bob Menery, Catfish Jean, Kevin Carroll, Travis Van Winkle, Hannah Lanier
Deadline’s takeaway: In spite of some flashes of technical brilliance in its motion sequences and some tries made by its forged, this rebuilt Road House stands as a testomony to simply how troublesome it’s to seize lightning in a bottle.

Timestalker

Section: Narrative Spotlight
Director: Alice Lowe
Cast: Alice Lowe, Jacob Anderson, Aneurin Barnard, Tanya Reynolds, Nick Frost
Deadline’s takeaway: The bold movie remembers traditional Monty Python — it’s usually very, very silly and the identical time very, very intelligent — however most of all, it’s an thought of what might need been if that all-male workforce had ever had a girl or two in its core lineup. Somehow, Alice Lowe has the wide-eyed innocence to hold all of it off, a really subversive reward certainly.

We Were Dangerous

Section: Narrative Feature
Director: Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu
Cast: Rima Te Wiata, Erana James, Nathalie Morris, Manaia Hall
Deadline’s takeaway: We Were Dangerous by no means fairly comes collectively because the wry, subversive coming-of-age film that it might need been, however the performances are highly effective sufficient in Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s debut that its emotional heft is surprisingly indelible.