The Best and Worst Films at SXSW 2017
The 2017 edition of South by Southwest wrapped up its film program last night, and the 10 days of premieres produced some welcome hits (with five films scoring 81 or higher) as well as some surprising misses.
Below, our editors have picked out the most notable films debuting at the festival, and sampled the critical consensus for each one. You can also find bonus reviews for a handful of television shows that premiered at SXSW (though not the highly anticipated upcoming series American Gods, since Starz has embargoed reviews until April 17th).
Oh, hi good James Franco movie. The director/star's adaptation of Greg Sestero’s The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside the Room, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made walks “a tightrope between deference and disrespect,” writes Sam Fragoso of TheWrap. Franco “fully commits” to playing The Room’s writer, director and star Tommy Wiseau, capturing Wiseau’s unique accent, garbled speech, ineptitude and earnestness in a performance THR calls “absolutely hysterical.” These great reviews mean Disaster is by far Franco's highest-scoring film as a director to date.
If you’ve never seen The Room (with or without its companion RiffTrax) or heard of Tommy Wiseau, The Playlist’s Eric Childress hopes this movie will “inspire folks to seek out The Room. Not only would that make Tommy very happy, but it will make them want to watch Franco’s Tommy and further appreciate what a brilliant job he did in recreating the experience for its fans.”
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