It's very much a surface-level music biopic that glosses over a lot of elements that probably would've helped shed light on what made Michael Jackson such an influential and creative artist, as well as a deeply flawed and complicated person. But the stuff this movie does get right, they excel to such a high degree that it honestly made it easy for me to overlook a lot of it's issues and just have fun. Clearly, the goal was to make…

SXSW 2026 | Screening #20

I did not anticipate this film to be this much of an elusive white whale nearly throughout the fest. Every chance I had, I've been denied entry to Damian McCarthy's follow-up to Oddity every single day, forcing to change my schedule. Then on St. Patrick's Day, the luck of the Irish struck tenfold when one of the fest's remaining buzz screenings was revealed to be this film right here, and my older sister had snagged…