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).
This feature debut from writer-director Ana Asenio was selected as the festival's top narrative feature by the SXSW jury. A thriller built around the struggles of an undocumented female immigrant played by Asenio, the film begins as a “vivid, empathetic picture” of a “compelling protagonist, whose fate remains raw, urgent and real,” according to David Rooney of THR. Indiewire’s David Ehrlich believes it’s a “short, stressful, and utterly spellbinding debut that transforms the immigrant experience into the stuff of an early Polanski psychodrama.”
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