I’m at just over the halfway mark of my SXSW 2024 coverage, and frankly, it’s been a delirious blast so far. I still have plenty of movies to see before I’m done with the festival, but it’s time to let y’all know what I’ve seen up to this point.
For those of you who don’t know how these Short Review Round-Ups work, let me give you the rundown. Each movie and TV show listed will have a “Short Version” and a “Longer Version” mini-review. The names are pretty self-explanatory, but the Short Version will just be a couple of sentences long. If you’d like to know just a bit more, read the extra paragraphs in the Longer Version.
If you only read one of these, please scroll down for my review of the National Geographic documentary Fly, I really don’t want that movie to go unnoticed, it blew me the hell away. However, let’s get one of the biggest films at the festival this year out of the way right up top: