{"id":327133,"date":"2026-03-13T04:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/327133\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T04:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T04:50:08","slug":"all-of-deadlines-reviews-from-the-festival-in-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/327133\/","title":{"rendered":"All Of Deadline&#8217;s Reviews From The Festival In Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tThe 2026\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/sxsw\/\" id=\"auto-tag_sxsw\" data-tag=\"sxsw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SXSW<\/a>\u00a0Film &amp; 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<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBoots Riley\u2019s sci-fi comedy I Love Boosters was <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/12\/boots-rileys-i-love-boosters-open-sxsw-2026-1236635541\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/power-ballad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Power Ballad<\/a>\u00a0starring Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas, the Vince Vaughn gangster pic\u00a0Mike &amp; Nick &amp; Nick &amp; Alice and Jorma Taccone\u2019s couples-trying-to-kill-each-other pic Over Your Dead Body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\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<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/I-Love-Boosters_02d677.jpg\" alt=\"Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige and Keke Palmer in 'I Love Boosters' (2025)\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\u2018I Love Boosters\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNeon\/Everett Collection<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSection: Headliner<br \/>Director-screenwriter:\u00a0Boots Riley <br \/>Cast: Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige, Poppy Liu, Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez, LaKeith Stanfield, Will Poulter, Demi Moore<br \/>Deadline\u2019s takeaway: 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<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/wp-content\/themes\/pmc-deadline-2019\/assets\/public\/lazyload-fallback.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Seekers-of-Infinite-Love.jpg\" alt=\"'Seekers of Infinite Love' review\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\u2018Seekers of Infinite Love\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSXSW<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tSection: Narrative Spotlight<br \/>Director-screenwriter:\u00a0Victoria Strouse<br \/>Cast: Hannah Einbinder, Justin Theroux, John Reynolds, Griffin Gluck, Justine Lupe, Greg Kinnear, David Ury, Michelle Johnston, Andrea Pyle<br \/>Deadline\u2019s takeaway: 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2026\u00a0SXSW\u00a0Film &amp; TV Festival kicked off March 7, in Austin and features 49 world premieres among debuts.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[156,409,111,139,69,82567],"class_list":{"0":"post-327133","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-sxsw"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}