The Best Movies of The 2025 SXSW Film Festival
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On the March 17, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film staff writers Ryan Scott, Rafael Motamayor, and Michael Boyle to talk about the best things they saw at the SXSW 2025 Film Festival.
In Our Feature Presentation:
- How was the experience this year? What was the vibe like on the ground?
- Recommendations
- Another Simple Favor Review: Anna Kendrick & Blake Lively Shine In This Silly, Sexy Sequel [SXSW]
- Death Of A Unicorn Review: Unicorn Violence Starts Out Fun Then Grows Stale In This Horror-Comedy [SXSW]
- The Accountant 2 Review: Ben Affleck's Sequel Is Better In Every Way [SXSW]
- Drop Review: This Bad Date Makes For A Killer Thriller [SXSW]
- Friendship Review: An Absolute Must-See For Fans Of I Think You Should Leave [SXSW]
- The Surfer Review: Nicolas Cage Descends Into Sunburnt Madness In This Psychedelic Thriller [SXSW]
- Michael Bay's First Documentary Was So Dangerous To Shoot He Wasn't Allowed On Set [SXSW]
- Clown In A Cornfield Is One Of The Best Scary Clown Horror Movies Ever Made [SXSW]
- The First Truly Scary Horror Movie Of 2025 Shatters One Major Genre Rule [SXSW]
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slash Film Daily. Today is Monday, March 17th, |
| 0:59.3 | 2025. On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about some of the best |
| 1:02.5 | movies from South by Southwest 2025. My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at Slashfilm.com, |
| 1:08.3 | and I'm joined on today's episode by Slashfilm staff writers Ryan Scott. |
| 1:12.0 | Hey, hey, everyone. |
| 1:12.9 | How's it going? |
| 1:14.2 | Rafael Modemeyore. |
| 1:16.0 | Hi, everybody. |
| 1:17.7 | And Michael Boyle. |
| 1:19.8 | Hi, everyone. |
| 1:21.3 | I'm on a train, so sorry about that. |
| 1:24.0 | Yes, as I was going to say, Michael is on a train literally right now coming back from |
| 1:28.9 | South by Southwest. |
| 1:30.1 | So he's going to try to spend most of this episode muted when he's not speaking so we can |
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