SXSW Film Festival Spotlight
Reviews for New Movies Released March 5 – April 16, 2021
Complete List of Reviews
1BR — horror
2/1 — drama
2 Graves in the Desert — drama
2 Hearts — drama
2 Minutes of Fame — comedy
5 Years Apart — comedy
9to5: The Story of a Movement — documentary
12 Hour Shift — horror
17 Blocks — documentary
37 Seconds — drama
76 Days — documentary
The 420 Movie (2020) — comedy
2040 — documentary
7500 — drama
Aamis — drama
Abe — drama
Advocate — documentary
The Affair (2021) (formerly titled The Glass Room) — drama
After Class (formerly titled Safe Spaces) — comedy/drama
After Parkland — documentary
After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News — documentary
AKA Jane Roe — documentary
Algorithm: Bliss — sci-fi/horror
All Day and a Night — drama
All I Can Say — documentary
All In: The Fight for Democracy — documentary
All My Life — drama
All Roads to Pearla (formerly titled Sleeping in Plastic) — drama
Almost Love (also titled Sell By) — comedy/drama
Alone (2020) (starring Jules Willcox) — horror
Alone (2020) (starring Tyler Posey) — horror
Amazing Grace — documentary
An American Pickle — comedy
American Street Kid — documentary
American Woman (2020) — drama
Ammonite — drama
Amulet — horror
And Then We Danced — drama
Antebellum — horror
Anthony — drama
Apocalypse ’45 — documentary
The Apollo — documentary
The Arbors — sci-fi/horror
The Argument — comedy
Artemis Fowl — fantasy
The Artist’s Wife — drama
Ask for Jane — drama
Ask No Questions — documentary
The Assistant — drama
At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal — documentary
Athlete A — documentary
Attack of the Murder Hornets — documentary
Baby God — documentary
Babysplitters — comedy
Babyteeth — drama
Bacurau — drama
Bad Boys for Life — action
Bad Education (2020) — drama
Bad Therapy (formerly titled Judy Small) — comedy/drama
Banana Split — comedy
Banksy and the Rise of Outlaw Art — documentary
Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar — comedy
Beanpole — drama
Beastie Boys Story — documentary
Becoming — documentary
Behind You — horror
Beneath Us — horror
Big Time Adolescence — comedy/drama
The Big Ugly — drama
Billie (2020) — documentary
Bill & Ted Face the Music — sci-fi/comedy
The Binge — comedy
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) — action
Black Bear — drama
Blackbird (2020) — drama
Black Box (2020) — horror
Black Is King — musical
Black Magic for White Boys — comedy
Blessed Child — documentary
Blithe Spirit (2021) — comedy
Blood and Money — drama
Blood on Her Name — drama
Bloodshot (2020) — sci-fi/action
Bloody Hell — horror
Blow the Man Down — drama
Blue Story — drama
Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island — horror
Body Cam — horror
Boogie — drama
The Booksellers — documentary
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm — comedy
The Boys (first episode) — action
Brahms: The Boy II — horror
Breaking Fast — comedy
Breaking News in Yuba County — comedy
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists — documentary
The Broken Hearts Gallery — comedy
Brothers by Blood (formerly titled The Sound of Philadelphia) — drama
Browse — drama
Buffaloed — comedy
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn — documentary
Burden (2020) — drama
Burning Cane — drama
Burn It All — drama
The Burnt Orange Heresy — drama
Cactus Jack — horror
Cagefighter — drama
Calendar Girl — documentary
The Call of the Wild (2020) — live-action/animation
A Call to Spy — drama
Call Your Mother — documentary
Cane River — drama
Capone — drama
Carmilla — drama
Castle in the Ground — drama
Centigrade — drama
Changing the Game — documentary
Chasing the Present — documentary
Chick Fight — comedy
Children of the Sea — animation
Chop Chop — horror
Circus of Books — documentary
City of Lies — drama
The Clearing (2020) — horror
Clementine — drama
The Climb (2020) — comedy/drama
Close Encounters of the Fifth Kind: Contact Has Begun — documentary
Clover — drama
Coachella: 20 Years in the Desert — documentary
CODA — comedy/drama
Coded Bias (formerly titled Code for Bias) — documentary
Coffee & Kareem — comedy
Collective — documentary
Color Out of Space — sci-fi/horror
Come as You Are (2020) — comedy
Come Play — horror
Come to Daddy — horror
Come True — sci-fi/drama
Coming 2 America — comedy
Console Wars — documentary
The Cordillera of Dreams — documentary
Count Basie: Through His Own Eyes — documentary
The Courier (2021) (formerly titled Ironbark) — drama
The Craft: Legacy — horror
Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words — documentary
Creem: America’s Only Rock’n’Roll Magazine — documentary
Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution — documentary
Crisis (2021) — drama
Critical Thinking — drama
Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan — documentary
The Croods: A New Age — animation
Crown Vic — drama
CRSHD — comedy
The Curse of Audrey Earnshaw — horror
Cut Throat City — drama
Da 5 Bloods — drama
Daddy Issues (2020) — comedy
Dads — documentary
Dangerous Lies — drama
Dara of Jasenovac — drama
The Dark Divide — drama
Dark Web: Cicada 3301 — action/comedy
Dave Not Coming Back — documentary
A Day in the Life of America — documentary
Days of Rage: The Rolling Stones’ Road to Altamont — documentary
Days of the Whale — drama
A Deadly Legend — horror
Dear Santa — documentary
Decade of Fire — documentary
The Deeper You Dig — horror
The Delicacy — documentary
Demi Lovato: Dancing With the Devil — documentary
Denise Ho — Becoming the Song — documentary
Desolation Center — documentary
Desperados — comedy
The Devil Below (formerly titled Shookum Hills) — horror
Devil’s Night: Dawn of the Nain Rouge — horror
Devil’s Pie – D’Angelo — documentary
Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy — documentary
Disappearance at Clifton Hill — drama
Disclosure (2020) — documentary
Diving With Dolphins — documentary
The Dog Doc — documentary
Dolittle — live-action/animation
Dolphin Island — drama
Dolphin Reef — documentary
Do Not Reply — horror
Don’t Look Back (2020) (formerly titled Good Samaritan) — horror
The Doorman (2020) — action
Dosed — documentary
Downhill — comedy
Dreamland (2020) (starring Margot Robbie) — drama
Driven to Abstraction — documentary
Driveways — drama
Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America — documentary
Duty Free — documentary
Easy Does It — comedy
Elephant (2020) — documentary
Ella Fitzgerald: Just One of Those Things — documentary
Embattled — drama
Emma (2020) — comedy/drama
The Emoji Story (formerly titled Picture Character) — documentary
End of Sentence — drama
Enforcement (formerly titled Shorta) — drama
Enhanced (2021) (also titled Mutant Outcasts) — sci-fi/action
Enola Holmes —drama
Entwined (2020) — horror
Epicentro — documentary
The Etruscan Smile (also titled Rory’s Way) — drama
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga — comedy
Evil Eye (2020) — horror
Exit Plan — drama
Extraction (2020) — action
Falling (2021) — drama
A Fall From Grace — drama
The Fallout — drama
Farewell Amor — drama
Fatal Affair (2020) — drama
Fatale — drama
The Father (2021) — drama
Fatima (2020) — drama
Fatman — comedy
Fear of Rain — horror
The Fight (2020) — documentary
First Cow — drama
Flipped (2020) — comedy
Force of Nature (2020) — action
For They Know Not What They Do — documentary
The Forty-Year-Old Version — comedy
Four Kids and It — fantasy
Framing John DeLorean — documentary
Freaky — horror
French Exit — comedy/drama
Friendsgiving — comedy
From the Vine — comedy/drama
Game of Death (2020) — horror
Ganden: A Joyful Land — documentary
The Garden Left Behind — drama
The Gasoline Thieves — drama
Gay Chorus Deep South — documentary
The Gentlemen — action
Get Duked! (formerly titled Boyz in the Wood) — comedy
Get Gone — horror
The Ghost of Peter Sellers — documentary
A Girl From Mogadishu — drama
A Girl Missing — drama
A Glitch in the Matrix — documentary
Godzilla vs. Kong — action
The Go-Go’s — documentary
Goldie — drama
Good Posture — comedy
Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind — documentary
Greed — comedy/drama
Greenland — sci-fi/action
Gretel & Hansel — horror
Greyhound — drama
The Grudge (2020) — horror
Guest of Honour — drama
Gunda — documentary
Half Brothers — comedy
The Half of It — comedy
Halloween Party (2020) — horror
Happiest Season — comedy
Have a Good Trip: Adventures in Psychedelics — documentary
Haymaker (2021) — drama
Healing From Hate: Battle for the Soul of a Nation — documentary
He Dreams of Giants — documentary
Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful — documentary
Herself — drama
The High Note — comedy/drama
His House — horror
Holly Slept Over — comedy
Honest Thief — action
Hooking Up (2020) — comedy
Hope Gap — drama
Horse Girl — sci-fi/drama
The Host (2020) — horror
Hosts — horror
House of Hummingbird — drama
How to Build a Girl — comedy
How to Fix a Primary — documentary
Human Capital — drama
Human Nature (2020) — documentary
The Hunt — horror
Hunter Hunter — horror
Hysterical (2021) — documentary
I Am Human — documentary
I Am Somebody’s Child: The Regina Louise Story — drama
I Am Vengeance: Retaliation — action
If I Can’t Have You: The Jodi Arias Story — documentary
I Hate New York — documentary
I Hate the Man in My Basement — drama
I’m Gonna Make You Love Me — documentary
Impractical Jokers: The Movie — comedy
I’m Thinking of Ending Things — drama
I’m Your Woman — drama
Incitement — drama
Infamous (2020) — drama
The Infiltrators — docudrama
The Informer (2020) — drama
Initials SG — drama
Inna De Yard: The Soul of Jamaica — documentary
Instaband — documentary
In the Footsteps of Elephant — documentary
The Invisible Man (2020) — horror
Iron Mask (formerly titled The Mystery of the Dragon Seal) — action
Irresistible (2020) — comedy
I Still Believe — drama
It Takes a Lunatic — documentary
I Used to Go Here — comedy/drama
I’ve Got Issues — comedy
I Want My MTV — documentary
I Will Make You Mine — drama
Jakob’s Wife — horror
Jay Myself — documentary
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey — musical
John Henry — action
John Lewis: Good Trouble — documentary
JonBenét Ramsey: What Really Happened? — documentary
Judas and the Black Messiah (formerly titled Jesus Was My Homeboy) — drama
Judy & Punch — drama
Jungleland (2020) — drama
Kajillionaire — comedy/drama
Kat and the Band — comedy
Kaye Ballard: The Show Goes On! — documentary
Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America’s Elections — documentary
Killer Therapy — horror
The Kill Team (2019) — drama
Kill the Monsters — drama
The Kindness of Strangers — drama
Kindred — drama
The King of Staten Island — comedy/drama
La Llorona — horror
Land (2021) — drama
The Last Full Measure — drama
The Last Vermeer — drama
The Lawyer — drama
Leftover Women — documentary
Les Misérables (2019) — drama
Let Him Go — drama
The Lie (2020) — drama
Life in a Day 2020 — documentary
Like a Boss — comedy
Limerence — comedy
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice — documentary
Lingua Franca — drama
Little Fish (2021) — sci-fi/drama
The Little Things (2021) — drama
The Lodge — horror
The Longest Wave — documentary
Long Weekend (2021) — sci-fi/drama
Lost Bayou — drama
Lost Girls — drama
Lost Transmissions — drama
Los Últimos Frikis — documentary
Love and Monsters — sci-fi/horror/action
The Lovebirds — comedy
Love Sarah — comedy/drama
Love Wedding Repeat — comedy
Low Tide — drama
Lucky Grandma — action
Luz: The Flower of Evil — horror
LX 2048 — sci-fi
Lydia Lunch: The War Is Never Over — documentary
Mai Khoi & the Dissidents — documentary
The Main Event (2020) — action
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound— documentary
Mallory (2021) — documentary
Mank — drama
The Man Who Sold His Skin — drama
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom — drama
The Marksman (2021) — action
Martha: A Picture Story — documentary
Martin Margiela: In His Own Words — documentary
Mass (2021) — drama
Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back — documentary
The Mauritanian — drama
Mighty Ira — documentary
Mighty Oak — drama
Military Wives — comedy/drama
The Mimic (2021) — comedy
Minari — drama
The Mindfulness Movement — documentary
Misbehaviour — drama
Miss Americana — documentary
Miss Juneteenth — drama
MLK/FBI — documentary
Moffie — drama
Monster Hunter — sci-fi/action
Mortal — sci-fi/action
Most Dangerous Game — action
Most Wanted (formerly titled Target Number One) — drama
Mr. Soul! — documentary
Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado — documentary
Mulan (2020) — action
Murder in the Front Row: The San Francisco Bay Area Thrash Metal Story — documentary
Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story — documentary
My Boyfriend’s Meds — comedy
My Dad’s Christmas Date — comedy/drama
My Darling Vivian — documentary
My Salinger Year — drama
My Spy — comedy
Mystify: Michael Hutchence — documentary
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind — documentary
The Nest (2020) — drama
Never Rarely Sometimes Always — drama
Never Too Late (2020) — comedy
News of the World — drama
A Nice Girl Like You — comedy
The Night (2021) — horror
Night of the Kings — drama
Nina Wu — drama
Noah Land — drama
Nobody (2021) — action
Nocturne (2020) — horror
Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin — documentary
Nomadland — drama
No Man’s Land (2021) — drama
No Small Matter — documentary
Notturno — documentary
The Old Guard — action
Olympia — documentary
Olympic Dreams — comedy/drama
Once Upon a River — drama
Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band — documentary
One Hour Outcall — drama
One Night in Bangkok — drama
One Night in Miami… — drama
Only — sci-fi/drama
On the Record — documentary
On the Rocks (2020) — drama
On the Trail: Inside the 2020 Primaries — documentary
Onward — animation
Open — drama
Ordinary Love — drama
Origin of the Species — documentary
Otherhood — comedy
The Other Lamb — drama
Other Music — documentary
Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles — documentary
Our Friend (formerly titled The Friend) — drama
Our Time Machine — documentary
Out of Blue — drama
The Outpost — drama
Out Stealing Horses — drama
The Painter and the Thief — documentary
Palm Springs — comedy
Parallel (2020) — sci-fi/drama
Paranormal Prison — horror
Parkland Rising — documentary
A Patient Man — drama
The Personal History of David Copperfield — comedy/drama
The Photograph — drama
The Place of No Words — drama
The Planters — comedy
Plucked — documentary
Plus One (2019) — comedy
The Pollinators — documentary
Pornstar Pandemic: The Guys — documentary
Possessor Uncut — sci-fi/horror
Premature (2020) — drama
The Prey (2020) — action
The Price of Desire — drama
Project Power — sci-fi/action
Promising Young Woman — comedy/drama
Proxima — sci-fi/drama
P.S. Burn This Letter Please — documentary
Public Enemy Number One — documentary
PVT CHAT — drama
The Quiet One — documentary
Quo Vadis, Aida? — drama
The Racer — drama
Radioactive — drama
A Rainy Day in New York — comedy
Raising Buchanan — comedy
Raya and the Last Dragon — animation
Rebuilding Paradise — documentary
Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project — documentary
Red Penguins — documentary
Red Shoes and the Seven Dwarfs — animation
A Regular Woman — drama
Relic — horror
The Rental (2020) — horror
Rent-A-Pal — horror
The Rescue List — documentary
Resistance (2020) — drama
Retaliation (formerly titled Romans) — drama
Rewind — documentary
The Rhythm Section — action
The Ride (2020) — drama
Ride Like a Girl — drama
The Right One — comedy
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It — documentary
River City Drumbeat — documentary
Roald Dahl’s The Witches — horror/fantasy
Robert the Bruce — drama
Run (2020) — drama
Runner — documentary
Run With the Hunted — drama
Ruth: Justice Ginsburg in Her Own Words — documentary
Safer at Home — drama
Saint Frances — comedy/drama
Saint Maud — horror
Save Yourselves! — sci-fi/horror/comedy
The Scheme (2020) — documentary
Scheme Birds — documentary
Scoob! — animation
Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street — documentary
Screened Out — documentary
Seahorse: The Dad Who Gave Birth (formerly titled Seahorse) — documentary
Seberg — drama
The Secret: Dare to Dream — drama
A Secret Love — documentary
The Secrets We Keep — drama
See Know Evil — documentary
See You Yesterday — sci-fi/drama
Selah and the Spades — drama
Sergio (2020) — drama
The Seventh Day (2021) — horror
Shadows of Freedom — documentary
She Dies Tomorrow — drama
She’s in Portland — drama
Shine Your Eyes — drama
Shirley — drama
Shithouse — drama
Shortcut — horror
The Short History of the Long Road — drama
Showbiz Kids — documentary
The Show’s the Thing: The Legendary Promoters of Rock — documentary
Silk Road (2021) — drama
A Simple Wedding — comedy
The Sinners (2021) (formerly titled The Color Rose) — horror
Six Minutes to Midnight — drama
Ski Bum: The Warren Miller Story — documentary
Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons — documentary
Skin Walker — horror
Skyman — sci-fi/drama
Slay the Dragon — documentary
Smiley Face Killers — horror
Sno Babies — drama
Somebody Up There Likes Me (2020) — documentary
Some Kind of Heaven — documentary
Sometimes Always Never — comedy/drama
The Sonata — horror
Songbird — sci-fi/drama
Sonic the Hedgehog — live-action/animation
Sorry We Missed You — drama
Soul — animation
Sound of Metal — drama
Spaceship Earth — documentary
Spell (2020) — horror
Spelling the Dream (formerly titled Breaking the Bee) — documentary
The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run — live-action/animation
Spontaneous — sci-fi/horror/comedy
Sputnik — sci-fi/horror
Standing Up, Falling Down — comedy/drama
Stardust (2020) — drama
Starting at Zero — documentary
The State of Texas vs. Melissa — documentary
Stealing School — comedy/drama
Stevenson Lost & Found — documentary
Still Here (2020) — drama
The Story of Soaps — documentary
The Stranger (Quibi original) — drama
Stray (2021) — drama
Stray Dolls — drama
Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash — drama
The Stylist — horror
Sublime — documentary
Summerland — drama
The Sunlit Night — comedy/drama
Supernova (2021) — drama
The Surrogate — drama
Survive — drama
Swallow — drama
The Swerve — drama
The Swing of Things — comedy
Sylvie’s Love — drama
Synchronic — sci-fi/horror
Tape (2020) — drama
Tar — horror
A Taste of Sky — documentary
Ten Minutes to Midnight — horror
Tesla — drama
Then Came You (2020) — comedy
They Call Me Dr. Miami — documentary
The Thing About Harry — comedy
Think Like a Dog — comedy/drama
This Is Personal — documentary
This Is Stand-Up — documentary
A Thousand Cuts (2020) — documentary
A Thread of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy — documentary
Through the Night (2020) — documentary
Tijuana Jackson: Purpose Over Prison — comedy
Time (2020) — documentary
The Times of Bill Cunningham — documentary
Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made — comedy
To Kid or Not to Kid — documentary
The Tobacconist — drama
Tom and Jerry — live-action/animation
Tommaso — drama
Tom of Your Life — sci-fi/comedy
Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free — documentary
Totally Under Control — documentary
Trafficked: A Parent’s Worst Nightmare — drama
The Trial of the Chicago 7 — drama
The Trip to Greece — comedy
Trixie Mattel: Moving Parts — documentary
Trolls World Tour — animation
Troop Zero — comedy
The True Adventures of Wolfboy — drama
The Truffle Hunters — documentary
Trust (2021) — drama
The Truth — drama
The Turning (2020) — horror
The Twentieth Century — comedy
Two of Us (2021) — drama
Tyson — documentary
Unbelievable (premiere episode) — drama
Uncaged (also titled Prey) – horror
Uncorked — drama
Underwater — sci-fi/horror
Unhinged (2020) — action
The United States vs. Billie Holiday — drama
Up From the Streets: New Orleans: The City of Music — documentary
Ursula von Rydingsvard: Into Her Own — documentary
Valley Girl (2020) — musical
The Vanished (2020) (formerly titled Hour of Lead)— drama
The Vast of Night — sci-fi/drama
Vas-y Coupe! — documentary
The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee — comedy
The Vigil (2021) — horror
The Village in the Woods — horror
Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations — documentary
Vivarium — sci-fi/drama
Voyagers — sci-fi/drama
Waiting for the Barbarians — drama
Wander Darkly — drama
The War With Grandpa — comedy
Watson — documentary
The Way Back (2020) — drama
We Are Freestyle Love Supreme — documentary
We Are Little Zombies — comedy/drama
We Are Many — documentary
We Are the Radical Monarchs — documentary
Weathering With You — animation
Welcome to Chechnya — documentary
What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali — documentary
What We Found — drama
What Will Become of Us — documentary
When the Streetlights Go On — drama
The Whistlers — drama
A White, White Day — drama
Widow of Silence — drama
Wig — documentary
Wild Mountain Thyme — drama
The Windermere Children — drama
Witch Hunt (2021) — horror
Wojnarowicz — documentary
The Wolf House — animation
The Wolf of Snow Hollow — horror
A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem — documentary
Wonder Woman 1984 — action
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation — documentary
Words on Bathroom Walls — drama
Work It — comedy/drama
The World to Come — drama
The Wretched — horror
A Writer’s Odyssey — fantasy/action
The Wrong Missy — comedy
XY Chelsea — documentary
Yellow Rose — drama
You Cannot Kill David Arquette — documentary
You Don’t Nomi — documentary
You Go to My Head — drama
You Should Have Left — horror
Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn — documentary
Zack Snyder’s Justice League — action
Zappa — documentary
Zombi Child — horror