Edgar Wright’s “Baby Driver,” the big studio premiere\u00a0in this year’s slate, received the most support among the new titles, although Sundance hit\u00a0“The Big Sick” was a tough more popular. Joining them in the top three was\u00a0“Free Fire,” Ben Wheatley’s minimalist action movie that premiered in Toronto last fall.<\/p>\n
We also asked critics to single out a few of their favorite performances. Those categories yielded a similar spread of diverse picks, but a few did rise above the fold. Noel Wells and James Franco (appearing in their own films “Mr. Roosevelt” and “The Disaster Artist,” respectively), Lola Kirke (“Gemini”), Harry Dean Stanton (“Lucky”) and Kumail Nanjiani (“The Big Sick”) all appeared on multiple ballots.<\/p>\n
Here are the top 10 narrative features\u00a0from SXSW 2017 according to 10 critics:<\/p>\n
1. “The Big Sick”
\n2. “Baby Driver”
\n3. “Free Fire”
\n4. “Colossal”
\n5. “Atomic Blonde”
\n6. Lucky
\n7. Gemini
\n8. Win It All
\n9. Mr. Roosevelt
\n10. Prevenge<\/p>\n
Here are the top 10 documentary features from SXSW 2017 from the same group:<\/p>\n
1. The Work
\n2. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
\n3. Muppet Guys Talking
\n4. Becoming Bond
\n5. Rat Film
\n6. Disgraced
\n7. Mommy Dead and Dearest
\n8. Ramblin\u2019 Freak
\n9. Unrest<\/p>\n
The full list of respondents, their picks and some additional thoughts about this year’s festival are below.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/win-it-all.jpg?w=780\")
<\/p>\n“Win It All”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Jason Bailey<\/strong> Best Narrative Feature Best Documentary Best Lead Performance Best Supporting Performance Best First Feature “Lucky”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Erik Childress<\/strong> Best Narrative Feature Best Documentary Best Lead Performance Best Supporting Performance Best First Feature “Free Fire”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kerry Brown<\/p>\n Matt Donato<\/strong> Best Narrative Feature Best Lead Performance Best Supporting Performance Best First Feature “The Work”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n SXSW<\/p>\n Eric Kohn<\/strong> Best Narrative Feature Best Documentary Best First Feature “Ramblin’ Freak”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Sean Malin<\/strong> Best Narrative Feature Best Documentary Best Lead Performance Best Supporting Performance Best First Feature “Baby Driver”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Neil Miller<\/strong> Best Narrative Feature Best Documentary Best Lead Peformance Best Supporting Performance Best First Feature Kenneth R. Morefield<\/strong> Best Documentary “Colossal”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Kristy Puchko<\/strong> Best Narrative Feature Best Lead Performances Best Supporting Performance “Nobody Speak”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Courtesy of Sundance<\/p>\n Christopher Llewellyn Reed<\/strong> I was very impressed with the production quality of much of what I saw, both in the documentary and narrative categories. The DPs are all doing an amazing job.<\/em><\/p>\n Best\u00a0Narrative Feature Best Documentary Best Lead Performance Best Supporting Performance Best First Feature “Mr. Roosevelt”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Dagmar Weaver-Madsen<\/p>\n Jason Whyte<\/strong> Noel Wells gives one of the best comedic performances <\/i>ever\u00a0in the movies in “Mr. Roosevelt.” This was the one movie I was wishing I could see <\/i>twice\u00a0at the festival but was unable to.<\/i><\/p>\n A very solid year for movies at the festival this year and I am looking forward to SxSW 2018!<\/em><\/p>\n Best Narrative Feature Best Documentary Best Lead Performance Best Supporting Performance Best First Feature Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like most successful American film festivals, SXSW has long appealed to a number of different audiences. The festival’s\u00a0competition sections highlight work…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-eg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n Flavorwire<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. Win It All
\n2. Atomic Blonde
\n3. Gemini
\n4. Most Beautiful Island
\n5. Colossal<\/p>\n
\n1. Disgraced
\n2. Mommy Dead and Dearest
\n3. David Lynch: The Art Life
\n4. California Dreams
\n5. Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall<\/p>\n
\n1. Lola Kirke, Gemini
\n2. Ana Asensio, Most Beautiful Island
\n3. Jake Johnson, Win It All
\n4. Wyatt Cenac, Fits and Starts
\n5. Francesca Eastwood, M.F.A.<\/p>\n
\n1. Zoe Kazan, Gemini
\n2. Dave Franco, The Disaster Artist
\n3. Joe Lo Truglio, Win It All
\n4. Greta Lee, Fits and Starts
\n5. Robert Forster, Small Town Crime<\/p>\n
\n1. Most Beautiful Island
\n2. DRIB
\n3. Fits and Starts
\n4. Lemon<\/p>\n![\"Harry](\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/lucky-e1489183818574.jpeg?w=780\")
<\/p>\n
\n eFilmCritic\/WGN Radio<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. Lucky
\n2. The Big Sick
\n3. Small Town Crime
\n4. Hot Summer Nights
\n5. Baby Driver<\/p>\n
\n1. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
\n2. Muppet Guys Talking<\/p>\n
\n1. James Franco, The Disaster Artist
\n2. Harry Dean Stanton, Lucky
\n3. John Hawkes, Small Town Crime
\n4. Bill Pullman, The Ballad of Lefty Brown
\n5. Anne Hathaway, Colossal<\/p>\n
\n1. Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
\n2. Jason Sudeikis, Colossal
\n3. Ray Romano, The Big Sick
\n4. Maika Monroe, Hot Summer Nights<\/p>\n
\n1. Lucky
\n2. Hot Summer Nights
\n3. A Bad Idea Gone Wrong<\/p>\n![\"Free](\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/free-fire-f71997.jpg?w=780\")
<\/p>\n
\n We Got This Covered<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. Free Fire
\n2. Prevenge
\n3. Colossal
\n4. The Disaster Artist
\n5. Mayhem<\/p>\n
\n1. James Franco, The Disaster Artist
\n2. Brianna Hildebrand, Tragedy Girls
\n3. Alexandra Shipp, Tragedy Girls
\n4. Addison Timlin, Like Me
\n5. Eric Ruffin, The Transfiguration<\/p>\n
\n1. Dave Franco, The Disaster Artist
\n2. Jon Hamm, Baby Driver
\n3. Chloe Levine, The Transfiguration
\n4. Sharlto Copley, Free Fire
\n5. Josh Hutcherson, Tragedy Girls\/The Disaster Artist<\/p>\n
\n1. Prevenge
\n2. Like Me
\n3. Most Beautiful Island
\n4. Lemon
\n5. Mr. Roosevelt<\/p>\n![\"the](\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/work.jpg?w=780\")
<\/p>\n
\n IndieWire<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. Bad Lucky Goat
\n2. Baby Driver
\n3. Gemini
\n4. The Disaster Artist
\n5. La Barracuda<\/p>\n
\n1. The Work
\n2. I Am Another You
\n3. Rat Film
\n4. Unrest
\n5. Barbecue<\/p>\n
\n1. Bad Lucky Goat
\n2. Rat Film
\n3. Unrest
\n4. Assholes
\n5. Lemon<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ramblin-freak-f71268.jpg?w=780\")
<\/p>\n
\n Austin Chronicle\/Filmmaker Magazine\/Cinemalin<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. The Big Sick
\n2. Lemon
\n3. Free Fire
\n4. La Barracuda
\n5. The Strange Ones<\/p>\n
\n1. Ramblin\u2019 Freak
\n2. The Work
\n3. The Secret Life of Lance Letscher
\n4. May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers
\n5. Walk With Me<\/p>\n
\n1. Sophie Reid,\u00a0La Barracuda
\n2. James Freedson-Jackson,\u00a0The Strange Ones
\n3. Brett Gelman, Lemon
\n4. Kumail Nanjiani,\u00a0The Big Sick
\n5. Allison Tolman,\u00a0La Barracuda<\/p>\n
\n1. Ray Romano,\u00a0The Big Sick
\n2. Sharlto Copley,\u00a0Free Fire
\n3. Michael Cera, Lemon
\n4. Michael Fassbender, Song to Song
\n5. Cat,\u00a0Ramblin\u2019 Freak<\/p>\n
\n1. Lemon
\n2. Ramblin\u2019 Freak
\n3. The Secret Life of Lance Letscher
\n4. Hounds of Love
\n5. The Work<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/baby-driver-f71746.jpg?w=780\")
<\/p>\n
\n Film School Rejects<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. Baby Driver
\n2. The Big Sick
\n3. Free Fire
\n4. Colossal
\n5. Tragedy Girls<\/p>\n
\n1. Muppet Guys Talking
\n2. Trophy
\n3. Becoming Bond
\n4. Chasing Coral
\n5. The Work<\/p>\n
\n1. Ansel Englort, Baby Driver
\n2. Alexandra Shipp, Tragedy Girls
\n3. Noel Wells, Mr. Roosevelt
\n4. Armie Hammer, Free Fire
\n5. Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick<\/p>\n
\n1. Holly Hunter, The Big Sick
\n2. Sharlto Copley, Free Fire
\n3. Sofia Boutella, Atomic Blonde
\n4. Daniella Pineda, Mr. Roosevelt
\n5. Brie Larson, Free Fire<\/p>\n
\n1. Mr. Roosevelt
\n2. Lemon
\n3. Most Beautiful Island
\n4. The Relationtrip
\n5. Easy Living<\/p>\n
\n 1More Film Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. The Work
\n2. Served Like a Girl
\n3. Unrest
\n4. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
\n5. Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/colossal_02_web.jpg?w=780\")
<\/p>\n
\n CBR \/ The Playlist<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. Colossal
\n2. Atomic Blonde
\n3. Tragedy Girls
\n4. Baby Driver
\n5. Prevenge<\/p>\n
\n1. Anne Hathaway, Colossal
\n2. Charlize Theron, Atomic Blonde
\n3. Alice Lowe, Prevenge
\n4. Jake Johnson, Win It All
\n5. Alexandra Shipp, Tragedy Girls<\/p>\n
\n1. Jason Sudeikis, Colossal
\n2. James McAvoy, Atomic Blonde
\n3. Jon Hamm, Baby Driver
\n4. Josh Hutcherson, Tragedy Girls
\n5. James Franco, The Disaster Artist<\/p>\n![\"Nobody](\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/nobody-speak.jpg?w=780\")
<\/p>\n
\n Hammer to Nail<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. Easy Living
\n2. The Transfiguration
\n3. Hounds of Love
\n4. The Big Sick
\n5. Fits and Starts
\nI also liked “Flesh and Blood,” “Free Fire,” “Gemini,” “Strange Ones”\u2026 and 2\/3 of “Baby Driver.” The above five are definitely my Top 5, however.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n1. Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press
\n2. Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
\n3. Rat Film
\n4. Maineland
\n5. Mommy Dead and Dearest
\nI also really liked “Barbecue,” “California Dreams,”\u00a0“Dealt,” “Pornocracy,” “Trophy,” “Unrest,” “The Work.” The difference between how I feel about one film vs. another are negligible. A very strong documentary program, overall.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n1. Caroline Dhavernas, Easy Living
\n2. Ashleigh Cummings, Hounds of Love
\n3. Lola Kirke, Gemini
\n4. James Freedson-Jackson, The Strange Ones
\n5. Kumail Nanjiani, The Big Sick<\/p>\n
\n1. Zoe Kazan, The Big Sick
\n2. Alex Pettyfer, The Strange Ones
\n3. John Cho, Gemini
\n4. Jon Hamm, Baby Driver
\n5. Armie Hammer, Free Fire<\/p>\n
\n1. Easy Living
\n2. Hounds of Love
\n3. Fits and Starts
\n4. Rat Film
\n5. The Blood is at the Doorstep
\n“Barbecue,” “Unrest”\u00a0– 6 and 7<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Mr.](\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/mr-roosevelt-f70361.jpg?w=780\")
<\/p>\n
\n Jason Whyte Media, efilmcritic.com<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n1. Mr. Roosevelt
\n2. Small Town Crime
\n3. Person to Person
\n4. Lucky
\n5. Lemon<\/p>\n
\n1. Becoming Bond
\n2. Dealt
\n3. Long Strange Trip
\n4. Thank You, Friends: Big Star’s Third Live… and More
\n5. Let There Be Light<\/p>\n
\n1. Noel Wells, Mr. Roosevelt
\n2. Harry Dean Stanton, Lucky
\n3. Melissa Leo, The Most Hated Woman in America
\n4. Josh Lawson, Becoming Bond
\n5. James Franco, The Disaster Artist<\/p>\n
\n1. Zoe Kazan, The Big Sick
\n2. David Lynch, Lucky
\n3. Philip Baker Hall, Person To Person
\n4. Brett Gelman, Lemon
\n5. Tavi Gevinson, Person To Person<\/p>\n
\n1. Mr. Roosevelt
\n2. Lucky
\n3. Lemon
\n4. Fits and Starts
\n5. Mission Control: The Unsung Heroes of Apollo<\/p>\n