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Five films we can’t wait to see at SXSW 2019

The Beach Bum
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It's March, my peoples, so we've fled the icy confines of Boston to the balmy and beautiful climes of Austin for the South-By-Southwest Film Festival. It's our third time covering the fest, and this one looks like the best we've been to yet. From new films by Jordan Peele, Harmony Korine, and Riley Stearns, to comedies from Kumail Nanjiani and the Superbad gang, there's just so much to see and do in Austin throughout the next week.

We've been fortunate enough to check out some of the biggest hits screening at the festival already: Little Monsters, Teen Spirit, The Inventor, and Greener Grass, and you should go check those reviews out if you're interested in seeing them. Otherwise, here are our picks for the five movies we absolutely cannot wait to check out at SXSW this year.

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The Beach Bum

It’s still a funny thing to us how excited people are for a new Harmony Korine film, as we can remember a time when, whenever someone mentioned his name, the entire room (stupidly) groaned and wondered when we were going to grow the fuck up. That’s probably thanks to Spring Breakers, which established a new aesthetic for Korine’s work (even though it was perfectly great before all that!) and to which his latest film, the Matthew McConaughey-led The Beach Bum, looks to continue. The patron saint of “Alright, Alright, Alright” leads an all-star cast in this tale of a goofy stoner rebel who wows Miami with his talents. It’s a perfect meeting of film and Festival, and we’re sure that we’ll be picking bits of excited audience brains out of our hair for hours to come after it premieres on Saturday night.

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