Instant reactions to movies playing at the Toronto International Film Festival, which is in full swing from September 5-15 with celebrities and films flooding downtown.
Category: Festivals
Movie Festivals around the world
Demi Moore triumphs in body horror satire The Substance
At long last, someone is brave enough to answer the question of whether there is anything grosser than watching Dennis Quaid eat shrimp.
Will & Harper, an illuminating cross-country road trip of discovery
Comedy superstar Will Farrell joins his recently-transitioned friend for an illuminating cross-country road trip of strikingly honest conversations and open-hearted discovery.
TIFF 2024: Queer
Thought if anyone could make the smack-addled writings of William S Burrows romantic it would have to be Luca Guadagnino, but alas.
TIFF 2024: Nightbitch
Amy Adams is phenomenal as an artist who set her career aside to raise an adorable child; she sells the madness of isolation as her identity attempts to reclaim itself with hallucinations (maybe) that she’s turning into a dog.
TIFF 2024: On Swift Horses
I suppose it’s kinda cool that the hottest young stars in Hollywood now establish their cred by the rite of passage of playing gay. In Daniel Minahan’s adaptation of Shannon Pufahl’s 2019 novel, at least Jacob Elordi and Daisy Edgar Jones avoid tragic weepy stereotypes in this handsome literary take on queer identities in the 1950s American West.
TIFF 2024: The Life of Chuck
Told in three acts in reverse, Mike Flanagan has made a lovely little Stephen King adaptation about how Tom Hiddleston came to be an exceptional dancer who contains multitudes.
TIFF 2024: Eden
Ron Howard dives into the dark scheming heart of humanity in recounting a true story of self-promotional Galapagos settlers in the 1930s.
Telluride 2024: Monday Journal: Maria, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, All We Imagine As Light, Nobu
Notes from Monday at Telluride
Telluride 2024: Sunday Journal: Anora, September 5, Saturday Night, Bird
Notes from Sunday at Telluride