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SXSW 2025 Critic’s Notebook

Rendy Jones — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:36:47 +0000

My name is Rendy Jones (they/he) and I am / we are an independent film critic from Brooklyn, New York. My experience at this year’s SXSW was vastly different from my other years in attendance. This year I got that […]

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SXSW 2025 First Wave Lineup: New Films From Jay Duplass, Matt Johnson, Chad Hartigan, and More to Premiere in Austin

M.J. O'Toole — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:43:55 +0000

The first round of the lineup for the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally here! The festival is scheduled to run in Austin, Texas from March 7 through 14. It will have 96 features in total, including 82 […]

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BlackBerry

Christopher Reed — Fri, 12 May 2023 16:59:10 +0000

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of BlackBerry, in theaters May 12, 2023 via IFC Films. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Who remembers the once-ubiquitous BlackBerry, known in its aughts heyday as the “crackberry,” so addictive did it […]

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Jesse Klein’s SXSW 2016 Wrap-Up

Thu, 24 Mar 2016 12:07:31 +0000

SXSW drew to a close this weekend in what was another exciting year chock-full of films that pushed, pulled, and prodded, that continued to define and give shape to the ever-expanding and evolving landscape of independent filmmaking here in the […]

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BULLIES ON SCREEN

Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:55:51 +0000

The bully in movies has been around for nearly as long as the medium itself. At the end of Chaplin’s City Lights, the Tramp is broke, alone, on the street. At his lowest point, he feels the sticky pang of […]

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DIRTIES, THE

Fri, 04 Oct 2013 15:30:32 +0000

What starts out as smart, irreverent comedy eventually turns into a kind of horror, giving the viewer a sense of being weirdly complicit.

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SARASOTA FILM FESTIVAL ’13: JURY DUTY

Michael Tully — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:52:22 +0000

Though I’ve attended the Sarasota Film Festival every year since I flew into the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport for the first time back in the spring of 2006, my participatory role this year was of a different capacity than it ever […]

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