Us 2019
Jordan Peele's follow-up to Get Out, with Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke as a family confronted by doppelgängers on a Santa Cruz beach vacation
The Big Picture · Review · Discussion · Interview
'Us' and the Best Movies at SXSW, Plus Sebastián Lelio on 'Gloria Bell'
March 12, 2019/ 87 min/ Sean Fennessey · Amanda Dobbins · Chris Ryan
Sean, Amanda, and Chris report back from SXSW with verdicts on 'Us,' 'Long Shot,' 'Booksmart,' and 'The Beach Bum,' then Sean talks to Sebastián Lelio about remaking his own film for Julianne Moore.
14 films across 3 segments.
AI-generated This episode was transcribed and analyzed with AI models. The matches aren't perfect — expect the occasional misheard title or a link to the wrong film.
'Us'the festival's opening-night premiere
The Best Movies at SXSWpicks and discoveries from the festival
Olympic Dreams 2019
shot during the actual 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang, with Alexi Pappas as a competing skier and Nick Kroll as a volunteer dentist
Yes, God, Yes 2019
Karen Maine's directorial debut, with Natalia Dyer as a Catholic-school teenager who stumbles into AOL cybersex
Villains 2019
Dan Berk and Robert Olsen's home-invasion thriller, with Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe as small-time robbers who pick the wrong house
Long Shot 2019
Charlize Theron's presidential-hopeful Secretary of State hires her childhood babysitter, played by Seth Rogen, as a speechwriter
The Beach Bum 2019
Harmony Korine's loose, episodic portrait of a Florida burnout poet, with Matthew McConaughey and Snoop Dogg
Running with Beto 2019
HBO documentary following Beto O'Rourke's Senate run against Ted Cruz
Mickey and the Bear 2019
Annabelle Attanasio's debut, with Camila Morrone as a Montana teenager caring for her opioid-addicted veteran father, played by James Badge Dale
Booksmart 2019
Olivia Wilde's directorial debut, with Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever cramming a missed high school experience into one night before graduation
Adopt a Highway 2019
Logan Marshall-Green's directorial debut, with Ethan Hawke as an ex-convict trying to rebuild his life
Her Smell 2019
Alex Ross Perry's portrait of a self-destructive 90s rock star, played by Elisabeth Moss
The Art of Self-Defense 2019
Riley Stearns' deadpan story of a man, played by Jesse Eisenberg, who takes up karate after being attacked
Run This Town 2019
a dramatization of the Rob Ford crack-video scandal, with Ben Platt as a reporter and Damian Lewis under heavy prosthetics as the mayor
In conversation
Sebastián Lelio on
Gloria Bell 2019
Lelio's English-language remake of his own film, made at Julianne Moore's request, with John Turturro
Also mentioned raised along the way
Comparisons for 'Us' Get OutFunny GamesThe Right StuffCaptain Marvel
Comparisons for 'Booksmart' SuperbadProject XDazed and ConfusedThe Breakfast ClubFast Times at Ridgemont HighLady BirdSet It Up
Comparisons for 'Villains' Natural Born KillersPulp FictionBlood SimpleBarton FinkStake LandThe StakelanderBody
Comparisons for 'Long Shot' Pretty WomanThe American President
Also mentioned ItIt FollowsBlack Panther12 Years a SlaveGummoProof of LifeThe War RoomNever Goin' BackObvious Child
Sebastián Lelio's world RomaA Fantastic WomanDisobedienceGloriaSafeMagnolia
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