‘Crash Land’ Review: Gabriel LaBelle Brings Naive Charm To Dempsey Bryk’s Raucous Rural Coming-Of-Age Comedy – SXSW
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After making a film about an obsessive teenage wannabe Hollywood director, Gabriel LaBelle went from The Fabelmans (2022) — in which he starred as a thinly veiled version of its co-writer-director Steven Spielberg — to a film about an aspiring 30-year-old TV showrunner, playing SNL creator Lorne Michaels in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night (2024). Dempsey […]
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After making a film about an obsessive teenage wannabe Hollywood director, Gabriel LaBelle went from The Fabelmans (2022) — in which he starred as a thinly veiled version of its co-writer-director Steven Spielberg — to a film about an aspiring 30-year-old TV showrunner, playing SNL creator Lorne Michaels in Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night (2024). Dempsey Bryk ’s debut feature Crash Land brings him back full circle to the world of no-budget movie-making, putting his bearded baby-faced appeal to good use in a coming-of-age story that makes up in naive charm what it might otherwise lack in originality. Films about exuberant no-talent amateur filmmakers are an interesting sub-sector within the whole film-within-a-film genre, and Crash Land makes the smart choice not to riff on specific movies, a key flaw in the likes of Be Kind Rewind and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl . Instead, the three heroes at the heart of Bryk’s film are stuntmen, albeit of the kamikaze Jackass variety, and in the film’s very brief opening set-up we find them out in a field somewhere, riding a bicycle hard at a burning tire that’s hanging from a tree. Watch on Deadline Related Stories Festivals 'Basic' Review: Ashley Park Obsesses Over Leighton Meester In Chelsea Devantez's Hilariously Relatable Social Media Comedy -- SXSW
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