Following the horror film Hokum, Adam Scott turns up in another genre entry premiering at this week’s SXSW Film Festival in Texas. The smartest thing about The Saviors is its uncanny timeliness about growing suspicions of Middle Easterners in a divided Trump era and increasingly racist America. And as told through the eyes of Scott’s white liberal Sean Harrison, his Black wife Kim (Danielle Deadwyler) and his leftist sister Cleon (Kate Berlant), The Saviors finds itself firmly planted in the kind of paranoid-thriller format popular in such ’70s classics as The Parallax View and The Conversation but also adding some satirical comedic touches that work nicely — until they don’t. We will get to that in a bit.
Sean and Kim Harrison have decided to divorce but need the money to pay off the mortgage, so they are renting out
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